The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-15
Gypsy Queen Finds Her Flance
In Ohio Penltsntiary.
SEPARATED TWENTY YEARS
Sentenced for Manslaughisr He Escaped
and Was Rscaptursd- She Is Now
~ Working for His Pardon.

New York, Oct 15,--"He was my brave
young lover 20 years ago. / call him
now my gypsy brother"
All the romance OF Queen Stella's life
her love. Its tragedy and its strange
renewal-is crowded into that brief seu=
tence. After ~ years Of separation from
the young toreador who won her girls
heart In Spain. the gypsy ruler Of the
Gonzalez has found her handsome lover
In Convict No. 3003 In the Ohio Peniten-
tiary, serving a long term for man
slaughter.
The machinery 10 secure his parole, set
In motion by the devoted woman. who
has been faithful 10 the ideal OF her
youth, is turning with the slow certainty
OF the mills of the gods.
That is why the gypsy who day after
day reads the lines OF fate In the hands
OF the visitors TO the Women's Exhibition
at Madison Square Garden, while her own
happiness hangs I'm the balance, chafes
10 return to her western homo 10 work
for his release.
Queen Stella, OF the Gonzalez holds n
unique position in America She is here
to represent her people. to prove that the
gypsy Is worthy OF honor and reapect
TO induce gypsies not only 20 colonize here
but to fraternize with those among whom
they i've, and TO foster as well their ma
tive arts and industries She has ad-
dressed organizations and colleges IN diff
ferent parts OF the country, following
meanwhile the gypsy's professlon-the
study Of the palm.
FAMOUS AS A BULL-FTGHTER.
Twenty years ago I'm her Spanish home
Pedro Gonzales. whose prowess in the
arena made him famous, was her accepted
lover. Six feet tall, strong as a lion, his
struggle with the bull seemed the natural
outlet for his fiery temperament.
Dolores. as Stella was then called, fol-
lowed certain members OF her tribe 70
America TO prepare the way for the rest,
Months passed with no word of Pedro.
He had disappeared from Spain, none
knew whittier. Then came the word
That he was dead. The young queen
locked her love and grief in her heart
and gave herself wholly to work for her
people.
A year ago. in Columbus, o., where she
has recently made her home. Queen Stella
went .one day 10 the State Penitentiary
TO visit the prisoners.
why / went" she said, IT do not
know, except that TO me. whose life has
been so free, the prisoners are always
most pitiful. / went TO them to amuse
them a little. TO bring some brightness
into their day. stood laughing and
talking with my boys
THE next day I received a note which
read: II you are my Dolores. answer.
Convict No. 3003' i replied in a. line
That my name was Dolores, but that I
did not know him. But on the next
sunday, when / went again To talk TO the
prisoners asked TO see No. 3O03 A man
stepped forward, and saw the lover I
had lost-my Pedro. whom / believed
dead. tainted at his feet.
The Ohio penitentiary is an institution:
~ Is not prison. Mr.. William Darby
the warden. Is reformer To his kind
that my Pedro was in for manslaughter.
In Cincinnati five years ago he shot a
man named jackson: IL was in self-de-
escaped from prison. and seven months
after thsy captured him In West yir-
ginia. He was sentenced to sixteen
Bloomfield-he was proud. you see
FEARED GYPSY BILL
In the penitentiary they called him
GYPSY BIZ and feared him for his enor-
nous strength and the rebeLious spirit
cut his hair--his chief glory-and he
swore he would resist them TO the last.
Ihis was spared him. But he underwent
allows TO get him into the gray prison
garb which has been substituted in Ohio
for the hated stripes. He treated all
displayed at the sight of his Dolores was
the first sign OF softer nature the
prison authorities had ever seen.
Queen Stella was permitted an inter
view with him, and learned how his long
Ing for her had grown past endurance;
how he had come TO America TO find her
and wandered from place TO place. get
ting no trace. He had always wonder
ful magnetism for horses-they followed
readily at his merest word-and he be-
came horse trainer. It was while en-
gagged In his profession that the encoun-
ter occurred which led 20 his crime
GOOD CHANCE FOR PAROLE.
President Dunn and the managers OF
the penitentiary. as well as Warden
Darby and Chaplain Starr. have inter
ested themselves I'm Queen Stellas lover
and aided her efforts in every way pos
sible. Governor Nash also encouraged
her 10 hope. Parole once obtained the
way toward pardon ls halfway paved.
Before came away" said Queen
Stella, with happy tears In her eyes. Il
ate luncheon with my Pedro and we
played and sang together. He has my
picture and the watch / had when a child
In his cell there hangs an OIL painting OF
me .Sssd around his neck a smaller por-
trait So when H. wakes he looks at it,
and says, Good morning TO Dolores"