The Washington times., 1895-06-07
CHILDREN TRAINED TO Beg
Three of Geo. Lively's Female Asso-
ciates in Police Court With Babies.
Two of Them and a Boy Sent TO the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Babe Re-
moved by Lively's Companion.

The sequel to the abduction OF Mary
Moran by the gypsies, as told in The Times,
transpired yesterday at the police court,
when a band of alleged fortune tellers ap-
peared before Judge Kimball to answer to
the charge of vagrancy. The group con-
sisted OF three women, Two babies and a ten
year-oid boy, and the evidence against tue
elders, including the ten-year-old, was that
they live by begging and preying upon the
community. 1t was by these people that
the Moran child was kidnapped.
The prisoners answered to the names or
Mamie Lively, Laura Gordon, Mary Jones
and Walter Lively. whose habitation was
shown to be a tumble-down shanty, manu-
factured of dry goods boxes, on Congress
Heights.
Sergt Anderson and Policeman Robey
were the prosecuting witnesses. When the
boy was arraigned they testified that he was
always begging. This the lad III elect al
mitted, stating. that his mother sent mn
out on that mission.
There are two OF us who beg" SAID the
child.
Lawyer Moss endeayored ia avert the i'm
pending sentence, but Judge Kimball had
previous knowledge of the family failing,
and upon the evidence of the Policemen
sent the dininutive representative oil tne
Romany Rye TO the workhonse Tor Sixty
DAYS, in default of a $50 bond.
The women and the babes were then pre-
sented. the former to answer to the offense
charged. The officers alleged that the chill
dren have peen carried about the streets to
excite sympathy, but this the women de-
MED Mamie Lively claimed 10 be the
mother of one of the infants, and the other
was procured by Laura Gordon, according 10
her own admission, at Baltimore hos
pital.
The trio of fortune tellers denied the charge
of begging, and Lawyer Moss exhausted his
professional skill in the effort To sustain
their case. but the judge was ineXorape,
II know these people," volunteered ms
| honor. Thirty days each for Laura Cor
don and Mamie Lively. The Jones woman
may CO."
The not sun had peeled the face of one of
the babies, and the other was in state OF
sami-e Exhaustion. Both were taken charge
by the court To be afterwards cared for, the
two alleged mothers went down in the van
and the Jones woman, departed FOR the
| tumbe-down shack on Congress Heights.
George Lively, alleged leader OF the band,
was not arrested, he having escaped the
officers by going 10 Baltimore.
In response to an order from the court,
Agent Lewis of the Society of Children's
Guardians. went TO the Lively house, near
Congress Heights, for the other baby, sup
posed to have been left there after the
arrest OF the family. Agent Lewis was
accompanied by Policeman Allen, and the
two effected an entrance into the dwelling,
but no trace OF the child, nor OF Lille May,
the woman who was with Mary Moran,
could be found.
After an investigation 1t was learned that
the statement made in court yesterday by
one of the women, that Lille May was at
home, was false. and that the night before
she had secured the wagon on Half street,
where it was left by her alleged father,
and driving to the house on Congress
Heights by q circuitous route, loaded the
vehicle with a number OF articles, and
also carried a way one OF the babies.
1t is supposed she had gone to join her
father, and it is reported that Lively
has joined a wandering tribe of gypsies
which encamped near his home several
days ago. but which are now said TO be
| some where between Washing ton and Laurel.