The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-09-07

with mystery.
A Gypsy Fraud.-Near the base of the
North mountain resides a well-to-do
German, the owner of q small home,
who was lately the victim of the mach
nations of Gypsy man and wife, and
who relieved the aforesaid German of
500. The Gypsies, as the story goes,
made repeated visits to the house of the
farmer, and succeeded in gaining his
confidence. For one hundred dollars
the Gypsy man said he would reveal the
whereabouts of $4,000 hidden in the hills
of neighboring farm, which when
found should be shared between them
The German readily agreed, and not
having the necessary cash on hand he
borrowed the money from various par
ties saying that he was about to make a
fortune. The Gypsy returned on an
appointed day to carry out his part of
the programme, reciting the following
plan: The German was to deposit in
chest, a bible, 500 and a watch, which,
after various " Dutch'' words had been
spoken over, the deposit was to be bur-
led out of sight for nine days. On open
ing said chest the secret place of the
hidden treasure could be read, &c., &c.
The Gypsy insisted upon the time-keep-
er, saying that 1t was to do duty as a
watch upon the German if he disturbed
the deposit before the nine days had ex-
pired. The innocent man complied and
the deposit was made according to the
plan agreed upon, the Gypsy agreeing
to return in nine days when the box
should be unearthed, and the place of
that $4,000 would be revealed and di-
vided. The German spent sleepless
nights in waiting, and on the eighth
day unable to longer stand the agony re-
paired to the spot and unearthed the box
opening which he found both money
and watch removed, and it was then
only the thing began to dawn upon him
that the Gypsy had swindled him. He
kept the matter secret for sometime,
and impaired it to friend or two on the
condition that they would keep it secret,
but it was to good to be keep by the lat
ter, who gave him away and thus it is
that the story is given. Opinion.
I Thieves Arrested. = The Port Royal
Times says: This section of country
has been cursed for some time past with
gang of thieves, some of the members
of which were supposed to live in and
around this town. Almost nightly
within the past six months, spring
houses, smoke houses, grist mills, barns
and chicken roosts have been visited by
these nocturnal prowlers and despoiled
of part or all their contents-some spring
houses have been robbed three or four
times within the last three months. So
bold and audacious had these thieves be-
come that all movable property herea-
bouts was held by the owners with no
degree of certainty. On Wednesday
morning of last week, warrant was
issued by Justice Shindle to search the
premises of John Barkley, residing on
Milford street, in this place. The war
rant was placed in the hands of Consta-
ble Meloy, who proceeded to the house
accompanied by Deputy Constable Beal-
or and ID. G. Rannels. The first thing
found of suspicious character was
poke containing about 80 pounds of
sugar, stored away in doughtray in a
room on the second floor. Subse-
quent searches brought to light several
crooks of butter and other articles sup
posed to have been stolen and which
have been fully identified by the owners.