Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-05-25
Queen Of the Bush Rangers.
fell insanely In love with the young

and fell insanely in love with the young
barbarian.
The gypsy woman PINNED thu e;Ope.
ment. The young people were married
according to tho Romany rules, and while
the pondsof Devonslire werc being search.
ed the girl was being whirlcd to eastern
Hungary, where the gypsies then were and
still afe in considerable force
On reaching Vienna Mr.. Stanley fell
sick, but his friends Kept on to find tho
girl. All were now sure that she had been
kidnapped. Under the Hungarian laws,
which differ in some respects from these
Of tho allied kingdom Of Austria, a gira is
able to contract marriage at the ago Of II
without the consent of her natural guard
ians. ta
After ten days the clefgyman's friends
returned, and they drew lots 70 see which
should tell tho father tho whole truth.
And tho truth was that the girl had left
homo Of her own voiition, was then the
wife Of young gypsy who called himself
Paul Stanley, and that she would never
return to Devonshire alive II the law forced
her to go.
The Rev. George Stanley was taken
home by his friends, and within 10 months
he was laid beside his wife in the graveyard
Of the parish church.
The Austrian authorities after this kept
. close watch on the English girl and her
associates. When Mag was 10 and grow
ing heart weary of her life, her husband
and nother-in law were arrested as con-
spirators with a Hungarian count for
poisoning his father, and all were convict
ed and paid the penalty with their lives.
Mag was ordered to leave the empire at
Onco.
In tho meantime she had formed init
mate relations with n Jew, ard sho con-
fessed herself that she lived with him as
his vito before the law gave her the right
to do SO.
This man Hertzberg claimed to be O ma
two OF Germany. lilo knew many Ian
guages, after fashion, and no said ne
had largo interests in London. He pre-
vailed on his wife to 60 to England with
him. A worse man than this Erdman
Hertzberg never lived.
Up to tho time Of her meeting him Mag
Stanley was q deludcd woman, but. Mt
heart a pure and noble one. But Hertz
berg. seeing profit in her wondrous grace
and fascinating beauty, made up his mind
to profit by 1t. He started q club, q gam
bling rendezvous. on Piccadilly, and with
in easy reach of the great clubs The place
was sumptuously fitted up. but its great
attraction was 1.-THE gypsy queen" as he
caused Mag to be called.
Hertzbcrg prospered greatly, but there
comes, sooner or later, an end to all such
prosperity. Ono night there was q row,
not over the cards or wine, but after both
had been INDUCED in. Hertzberg caught
young officer Of the guards kissing his
vito In the hall. II the jew had not been
drinking, there would havo been no trou-
BILE, for Mag, like the cards and wine, was
an attraction.
A fight followed. Captain Griffith was
wife, the latter afterward indicted as
Mrs. Erimnn Hertzberg, alias the
Gypsy Queen" were arrested. Hcrtzbcrg
was tried, convicted and hanged. His
wife was sentenced to penal seryitudc for
lifo.
This was in 1s4s, when Marguerite was
81 years OF ago. England's great penal
colonies at that time were New South
Wales, in Australia, and Van Dicman's
Land, now known as Tasmania, to the
south Of the island continent T-.a'
To the latter colony Marguerite Stanley
was sent on ono Of those floating bells, an
English convict ship. The cold recital Of
that voyage, rs described by this woman
in her journal, fills the soul of the most
impressive with horror, and an Australian
writer has described it in tho most thrill
ing story in the English language, entitled
"For His Natural Life"
OF the 500 passengers, or rather con-
victs, OH that sailing ship 81 wers women.
Many of both sexes were sentenced for
trivial offenses, like poaching or pocket
picking, but in the main they were bad