The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-05-13
The Indiana Min Owner Who Wished
To Know His Fortune. lagais

The Indiana Min Owner Who Wished
TO Know His Fortune. la9is
/ Timothy Worton ana Mary Worton,
his wife. Ia. .Evpsies who were. arrested
IN IN brooklyn q charge Of having stolen
w, 200 from William Jessop, a wealthy
mill owner OF Princeton, Indiana, while
pretending to tell his fortune, were be.
fore Justice Gilbert in Brooklyn yestefas
day, on writ of habeas eorpas. i "a
District, Attorney Caflin said that a
requisition for the prisoners was expected
by every mail, and Justice Gilbert re-
manded the prisoners until Monday.
William Jessop, who Gays he was.
robbed by the gypsies, was in court. He
IS about forty-seFeng years jof age, has
blue eyes and long black whiskers, and
was dressed like q Western farmer. The
gypsy woman approached him and en-
deavored to draw him into conversation,
but he said, You robbed me of anys
money, AMI didn't do right bylsmess Il
don't want to say anything to YOU now"
Mrs. Worton said that she had promised
to return at future time and, tell, the
rest OF his fortune, and then she expected
to restore the money, and she ir1tfmated
that if he would not press his complaint
she would finish telling his fortune, and
give him back the money she promised.
Mr.. Jessop refused to talk with her, and
she and her husband were taken back to
jail. si'sifi lsis@a issla 1lg11sssf '7ss@y
Mr.. Jessop said to reporter that the
gypsies had been around Princeton.
Ind, for two or three months before
he was robbed, and that as they had.
bought quantity of cloth from his
woolen factory, and had promptly paid
for it, they had gained his confidence.
!" l looked upon them,'' he said, sas
being upright people, who intended to
be fair, or | would not have had anything
to do with them. They had told fortunes
about the town, and had told some things
that were true; and as I was a widower.
and the gypsy woman promised to tell
me OF some women who wanted
to get acquainted with me, / Welded.
ana she then said she, must have
Sz,OOO to bring about the revelation OF
the future. She seemed fair about IL,
and said that the money would never !.
leave my sight; so got So, 250, and she
tied my handkerchief about It, 4 dfdnstsl
open the package after that, because she !
said that it would break the charm, and
l cam tell exactly when she substituted
the other package, but / do not believe
that it was until the last time saw her.
Then she went through lot of motiops
with her hands, and Kept turning around
and looking away, SO that 1 think she
got o chance to make the change.
didn't discover it until after; the namr,4l
had been broken up, and then found
that she had got a handkerchief exactly
like mine, and had cut big pile of slips
of brown paper the size. Of a bank note. 4
and bound them up SO that the .paek kaue
exactly resembled mine. sIEcal7ieds the |
package home with me every night for
safe keeping, so that didn't lose sight |
OF it at all. 4 Ididn'tsdreama Il was carry-
ing around parcel Of brown paper. II
felt SO bad when I discovered that I had
been lifted that + didnatsay ANYTHING for
two or three days, butt final concluded |
to let it come out ;,
What part Of your fortune did the |
gypsy tell youl''Ea ssa tss gSsl |
g.s'sWell, she was going to. tell me who |
the women who wanted to get acduaint-
ed with me were, and them about some
money that was coming to me, She told |
me some things about myself that were
all true. / don't know how she did iten
Anything shesc could.not have learned |
from your sneighborsp'a .~~ w /
Come to think she didn't. / guess
now that she didn't tell me q tbinss that
she couldn't have heard about me. J. You
see, / had met with some losses and had i.
. agood deal Of trouble, and $50 Iwanteti
TO know about the future. was rohbedIl-
once OF . pile Of money by burglars, who
got into my house" .sa5k ls0s n
Was the safe broken openp'' II
stI didn't have no safe. The n1dneyl
was atwixt two beds, and was asleep
On the beds. They reached under ana ana y
got 1T 'sssl8s 1na axsdi i@esEs ainsgs, |,
Mr.. Jessop expects to take steps. to at. |
Iach the 81, ,29Qs now in the hands 81 p
Police Property Clerk Rowley, and try /
% recover at least that much of the lost +
money. The prisoners Awillo bs taken
back to Indiana for trial IN. T. Sxs. |
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