The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
GYPSIES TAKEN IN
Brown Wanderers Arrested
for Fortune Telling.
MUCH JABBER IN COURT
Two Detectives Were Placed
on Their Trail.

There has been a crowd Of Russian
Gypsies camped around the city for sew
erai days. -Four wagon loads camped at
the corner OF Lincoln and Water streets
yesterday. and some Of the women
started TO Go the town telling fortunes.
Along about . o'clock Detectives Harry
Sutton and Park Massey were around
hunting for a man, and went TO a house
on fremont; and about the same time
they arrived the Gypsies came along. and
wanted TO ten their fortunes. The men
We're willing, but Mr.. Sutton did Tot have
90 cents in change. so he borrowed a
quarter from a man and he gave the
money TO the woman. Mr.. Massey also
gave up 50 cents. The woman, who did
not think she got the fun price told Mr.
Sutton she could not do a very good Job
for that amount, but assured him that
he would get the worth Of his money.
The two women began their work and
were progressing nicely when Mr. Mas
sey happened to listen to the tale the
woman was telling his colleague, and this
made him sore. Both women were tell
ing both men what nice men they were,
and how they would prosper and get rich,
and al the things they had done and
would do, when Mr.. Massey found that
he was raging 50 cents for the same
goods that Mr.. Sutton was getting for
quarter. ard he quit The officers took
the women to the police station, and on
the way picked up another one, and she
was taken along. They could speak En-
glish to tell fortunes, but their lingo was
rather rank when they were arrested
and locked up on the charge of telling
fortunes without a license.
The women jabbered at the officers, but
they did not pay much attention to them,
because they could not understand what
they said. 1t was possible to gather from
one that there was a baby somewhere,
and she wanted it. When they were put
into the woman's ward all three began
to cry and moan as if their hearts would
break. The clerks in the city offices
could not work because Of the racket the
women raised on the lower floor.
When the women were arrested Mr.
Grimstead, who lives near the corner of
Lincoln and Water cae in and painted
the police to make the people move out,
and as soon as he heard the noise he went
TO the camp and told the others that some
members Of the camp were in jail In
q moment all was confusion. Horses
were brought in and hitched to the
wagons. and the entire outfit started for
the City hail. When the arrived two men
came into police headquarters and wanted
TO know what was the matter with their
women. Judge Stanley was telephoned
for, and the case was called Immediately.
The men waited and joked with the 9TH
ers who came up, and smoked tobacco
with an odor that almost drove the peo-
pie who came TO see the fun from the
room. Finally the judge arrived, and the
work of taking the names of the women
began. The judge called the three to the
stand and asked their names. When the
Judge opened his mouth the others got in
ahead of him and began their jargon,
and they We're adopts at making ges-
lures. About all they could tell the
judge was that Me Roosiun: me
Roosiun; me no speaka 'Merica; me
Roosiun." Then an old greya-haired pa
triarch appeared on the scene. He
waved his hand and said: "Sho-o-o-o-o!'
All stood as if spell-bound; not one said
a word. lie said to the judge: us
Roosiuns, US poor Roosiun people, US do
no bad; we poor Roosiun people"
Finally the judge shut him off and asked
him if he could tell him the names of
the women. He told the judge that one
was Anna" one "Katee," and one the
judge could not make out, so he put it
down laura" When he called the case
he gave their first names and then ended
with the name "Smol5ivicsy" He read
the charge, and then asked If they would
answer it. The whole outfit began to
talk and every once in a while some of
those in the spectators benches would
join in the chorus. The judge put Mr.
Sutton and Mr. Massey on the stand, and
they told how both had their fortunes
told and how one only paid two-bits
for the 100.
The judge fined each of the women $,
and they were locked up. The men gath
cred around the bench and jabbered,
rolled their eyes around and gesticulated.
The old patriarchal-looking fellow i'm
plored the judge TO turn his family loose.
lie called down all the blessings Of
heaven on the judges head. with all the
appropriate gestures. Some OF the men
threw their hats on the floor and tod
the Judge they would leave town right
away but The judge turned a deaf ear to
their entreaties.
Finally the men went over TO their
wagons and held a pow-Wow with the
rest of the tribe, and two men started ~
town TO get the money. After keeping thu
women in the JAN for few hours. the
chief let them out and told them 70 leave
town and they went as fast as their
horses could take them.
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