The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-19
she WAS 4 GYPSY MAIDEN |
How Dusky Bohemian Girl Played
a Confidence Game on
Mrs. Austin.
She Duped Her Out Of Fifty Dol.
lars and Part Of Her
Wardrobe.
For Twenty Dollars She Told Her For
tune and for Thirty More Would
Mako Her Immensely Rich.


Mako Her Immensely Rich.
As an instance of woman's weakness and
woman's duplicity an interesting case has
of the peculiar kind where the duped vic
Tins are anything but Fprone to announce
their gallibility, But Mrs. Ollie Austin Is
different kind of a woman. She has brooded
over the case for the past week, and though
she knows the public will call her fool, is
anxious to have the police know how she
was played by a gypsy fortune-teller,
who has been plying her vocation IN
this city for several weeks. Mrs. Aust,n's
experience with the Gypsy cost her 5 80 in
graph Of her husband. She thinks that
several Other women have been duped ~
this oily -tongued limb Of Satan. and would
like to have her brought to Justice.
MIR. Austin is woman who has seen q
great deal of trouble. She has not seen
her during the past yeeWg b snd has
heard Of he was in Spokane Falls, where he
started in the saloon business and failed.
He promised his wife to make another
struggle and drifted throughout the Sound
cities ..n but o, all and trace bs OF are hl@
have heard nothing Of him. Mrs. Austin
has grieved and brooded continually over
her husbands absence, and scouts the idea
that he has left her for some one else. They
came together from st. Paul and she re-
mained here while her husband went to get a
homo for both Of them. Since hisfailure and
absence Mrs. Austin has had to make her
own living, and is now doing chamber work
at the Lenoir house. where a reporter found
her yesterday.
II is not strange, therefore, that this
woman, eager to hear any information OF
her missing husband, readily became the
victim of this mind-reading gypsy, who
approached her about three weeks ago and
informed her that che could tell of the
whereabouts Of her husband. How could she
do it? She got the woman's curiosity
aroused by repeating some incidents OF
Mrs. Austin's past life, which are common
aid Of palmistry, in which the Gypsy was
an adept she left no doubt in the mind of
Mrs. Austin that she was little less than
infallible. The Gypsy gave her name as
Cora MenRe Buckrow, and she is a self
styled queen of the Gypsies, being the
the ominous figure is the feature. She
wanted $40 for telling Mrs. Austin's
fortune. Ordinarily she would unfold
the future and recite the past for the
paltry sum of g.. but such glad
tiainEs +h Is she ere d hsd At ,east
10 and j if Mrs. Austin were woman mo-" Of
means she would expect much greater sum.
When she had told Mrs. Austin of the great
things that were in store for her, the happy
and luxurious life she was destined to lead,
she would not regret the $40. She said
men who were out Of luck had given her
claimed power to do, and she held in her
hand right then, she said, 800 which a man
gave her for some successful work she ac-
complished for him. Mrs. Austin
gave the $40 reluctantly: The Gypsy
told her that her husband t was stll alive
within few weeks. She said she was
rarely fortunate and told her that in the
digRings north of the Lenoir house. buried
in the ground was bag of golden treasure
which had been put there many years ago
BY an Indian and white man. 1t was for
her, every ounce of it; its value was meal
culable, but she would be immensely rich
and in position to do many charitable
deeds which she would gladly do, if she had
the money to carry out her desires. This
treasure was mostly in gold dust and mug
gets and she was to have it all and then she
settle down for a comfortable
and easy life possessed of ample wealth to
crafty their every wish. It was there and
the Gypsy alone knew the spot, but to as
sist her in finding the place Mrs: Austin
would have to accompany her. The above
on Saturday IT, a night q between the silent
wealth was to begin. Il could not be done
that night. Several preliminaries we're
necessary. Among these was the necessity
Gypsy picked out plush and silk dress
and Mrs. Austin gave her the
husband. The Gypsy promised to
call at the appointed hour and during the
interim Mrs. Austen was told to maintain
meant failure. On last Saturday night Mrs.
Austin waited for her deliverer. Her anxi-
ETY. for the great moment knew no bounds.
just to think of it. Within few hours she
whould be immensely rich, and on Monday,
Aug. IS, her husband would be with her. To
her mind the queen" was a supernatural
being in disguise.. Eleven, twelve, one, two
and even three O'Clock went by and the
Gypsy did not come. Four and five O'Clock
rolled by and still she never closed her eyes
in slumber nor did the wonderful woman
come. Mrs. Austin felt convinced that she
was duped in confidence game. Even yes
terday her husband did not appear as the
Gypsy fortune-teller said he would.
Mrs. Austin related her tale of woe to
Judge Sanders and County Attorney Nolan
yesterday with q view to ascertaining
If the Gypsy could not be arrested and con-
victed for larceny. She thinks the woman
is in Great Falls. Over two weeks ago she
received letter from the queen at that
place, where she said she had gone to advise
a lawyer as to the outcome of a case. She
signed the letter Mrs. Woods"
It is very probable that the fortune teller
found more victims than Mrs. Austin in
Helena, who would also like to see her ar
rested.
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