The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-17
1000 GIPSIES IN BUCKRAM.
one HUNDRED ITALIANS READY
TO SWEAR TO 1T.

There were Even Some Persons Ready to BE.
lle,e 1.-two Gipsies and Two IA.
goes" Said the SerEeant--fsut II Was q
Yer, Nice Band OF Gipsies All the Same.
Jersey correspondents got busy yester-
day and flashed the intelligence abroad
that wild and ferocious band OF gipsies
encamped in Glendale Wood, Communi-
paw, Jersey City, fell upon two predatory
Italians named Tony Blunio and Patricio
Tome and would have lynched them
had not the valiant Communipaw police
come to the rescue. The halters had been
placed about the swarthy Latin necks. a
lone rope, a short shrift and-to see II 1t
was 20 a Sun reporter went to COMMUNE
paw.
Tony and Patricio, the all but lynched
Italians, told a narrowing tale.
Me no do notin, yass! Dem Rlpsy, a
h,inder, mebe t'ousan, jump and wanta
kill me an him -mebe hang, mebe no
| don know yass!"
The next thing to do was to 90 to Glendale
Wood see the horde Of gipsiee and Mrs.
Thiel. proprietress Of the Glendale Hotel.
who had notified the police OF the dread
conflict in the mysterious wood.
The hotel in question Is tumble down.
wooden wayside saloon Of the God for
eaken Jersey type. The wood consists OF
seven trees, scattered over an area OF
quarter Of mile, which makes it one for
lom tree every 200 feet In this impere-
trable jungle the mysterious tents OF the
ferocious gypsy band lay
GO to Joe Lowell, said Mrs. Thiel in
ecrutably; he will tell you all about the
fight. only telephoned for the police
Crossing the road, the reporter found
himself unarmed and alone facing the
Jersey CORES pondents had done it, so he
could not hang back. He made for the
tents.
Two tents We're pitched with the flaps
open. Iron bedsteads stood inside the
tents and small portable cooking stoves
At the entrance Of the first tent a man Of
almost seventy lay sleeping, and two very
dark. but red checked girls crouched by
the stove near him.
THAT'S Mr. Lowell said one Of the girls,
pointing to the sleeper. A we'll built young
chap came up at this moment and supple
mented the girls words with: THE old man
Is full. You want to know about the fight?
You reporter My brother Tom will tell
you an about it. He'll be right here"
Tom came and said Lynch them! Wish
we had, Those two Italians stole some
eggs out Of our chicken coop. My old man
ran after them and tried to catch them;
forty more came from up the road and fifty
came from down the road. There they were,
about hundred What could my father
do? I ran to help him. But one of the
'guineas' hit him with shovel and knocked
him senseess l had to carry him to the
kanf Tbor hn fNot- orrtS- yl
arrested two Of the 'guineas.'
Are there hundred or thousand of
you gipsies here" he was asked.
There's only our two families here"
replied Tom mildly. My old man and my
uncle and Tim and me. Only uncle and
They were swapping horses. So there
was only father and me.
Go to the old woman and let her talk to
you suggested Tim persuasively. Among
the wagons and boxes Of the encampment
the reporter made his way to the only other
tent the camp boosted. dusky woman
eat knitting
You want to know about the fight?
Well there isn't much to It, she said can
didIy. My old man was hit with shovel
But YOU just write nice piece about US.
am Lovella, queen Of the gipsies. l have
summer You are going to be very rich;
you'll live long and you have many friends
You will have a beautiful wife"
Yes, added a huxoIn female, rising from
the depths Of the tent land am Bella, queen
OF the gypsies. Ihave fortunetelling tent,
too
In her excitement she fell into a marked
Hibernian accent
'Ye're fond Of building castles in the air,
now, amt YEP she ran on. but one day
you'll build some rale ones Ye're most re-
foined and come of respectable parents.
Now, will We write a nice piece?."
49, 1t was very nice band Of gypsies indeed,
The reporter then went to the police.
"A hundred nothin' said the sergeant in
dagoes had fight with two of the gypeies,
and the dagoes were fined 50 and 81 each
one Respectively