The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-04
PAYS $1,000 FOR HIS BRIDE.
Gypsy in PennsyIvn Has to Pay
Cash for Beautiful Girl.

From the Chicago Chronicle
Romantic indeed was the wooing of
Queen Dora by Hezekiah Lowell in
Gypsy camps near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
recently. The young couple tried to
elope, but the beautiful bIack-haired
girl was brought back by her stern
father and locked up. where she re-
NAMED until young Lowell brought
around $1,000 and paid the cash down
for his bride. Then the objections to
the marriage were over and the we'd
ding took place with great eclat.
The romance took bud in the early
spring, when, upon an evil day for the
high-class Gypsy tribe of Stanleys,
Gypsies of another clan, the Lovells
camped near them in the vicinity OF
this city.
The Stanleys looked down upon the
newcomers as being without ancestral
aristocracy of Romany from which
they themselves had sprung.
The Lovells, so the Stanleys say, are
ordinary Welsh Gypsies. For them
selves, however, the Lovells claim the
blue blood of a long descent, for their
fathers and their fathers fathers. and
so on back until time loses record
were Gypsies.
Hezekiah Lowell, pride of the Welsh
OdAllpf anu NSuCCn OOi d VI Tic &AIdOldll
camp, cast their dark eyes one upon
the other when the call of love and
mating was in the air. They wooed
first by chances of their eyes, then by
soft-spoken words as they CHANGED to
pass, then at quiet meetings in the
shadows of the evening and the CRATE
full pail of the night.
And soon heart spoke to heart, and
they knew, that one was made for the
other though all the world said nay.
The immediate world of the Gypsy
sweethearts did say nay with vigor and
decision. The Stanleys would give none
of their high blood to one of the lower
order. If by any chance they could
be induced to make such a mesalliance,
they said, it would be only when the
payment of a large sum of money
was made. For Dora's sister one of
their own tribe had paid $500; for Dora
it was necessary that at least $1,000
should be given. Was she not really
a royal parsonage, the queen of their
tribe? they argued.
woman of many virtues and the source
of a big income. She was tall and
plump. Coal black, snappy eyes shone
from beneath long, silky lashes; a
broad, low forehead, the skin as clear
and as soft as a childs, peeped from
under hair as jet and as fine as that
of an Indian; a straight nose, with
quivering nostrils: cheeks as brown as
a berry; even teeth, as glistening as
mother of pearl itself-a more pictu-
rescue beauty than Dora Stanley is
hardly to be found.
And she is able to tell fortunes in a
way to be equaled by no other in her
tribe. And so her father and her
brother thought her a bargain at ST.
900. Had they ever quoted her at a
lower figure before? Had they not
asked $500 in Baltimore. $500 in
Richmond. $1,000 in Charleston? In
deed, it was hard to let her go for so
little. but she loved the man and they
would try to find comfort for them
selves.
Young Lowell, however, had no ST.
600 to give and Dora Stanley did not
want to be bought. The coin in the
realm of love, she told her father and
brothers. is not made by Uncle Sam.
But what could the poor lovers do?
The same as poor lovers have always
done. said they.
On Saturday night. June II. the
pride of each camp was missing. 1t
was but too evident to the brothers
and the father and mother of the miss
ing girl that she had eloped. The elder
Lowell knew his son had gone and
smoked his pipe. well pleased with the
youngsters daring and the youngsters
pride.
Then the chase. Pretty Dora Stanley
tells Of it.
I'VE walked on and on. over the hills
and down in the valley and through
the mountains and across the river"
she said. and on Monday we came to
Berwick We had walked fast We
knew that they would follow us and
try TO get us back. At Berwick we
found we could not get married be-
cause we had no license So on we
went 10 Bloomsbury. There we got
the license and were married and a
few minutes afterward detective ar
rested us. "
Then followed weeks OF prosecutions.
The young people were taken back 10
Wilkesbarre and put IN Jail for a night
and a day, the brothers being the prose-
cutors Then. believing they had Lowell
frightened 10 the proper point. they
had the pair released. withdrew the
charge. took Dora 20 her own camp
again and talked business with tho
eager young Lochinvar
Give ua $1,000 they repeated 70
him, "and you can haya our sister.