The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
GYPSY WOMAN FINED
sEHOT TAMALEo IS QUEER NAME
 GIVEN TO THE POLICE.
Extracted S1 From Pocket of q Negro Recorder Baber Tells Gypsies About Law Governing
 Fortune TeIIeRa.

The queerest name that has been docketed at the police station for some time is Hot Tamale," gypsy fortune teller and a woman.
 Hot Tamale"-she says that is her name-was arrested early yesterday af- ternoon at the same time that Mary Helen. a sister gypsy, was taken into custody on a charge of stealing from Bibb Watkins, a negro. Cases were made against Hot Tamale' and the Hellen woman charging them with violating the revenue laws of the city
 In the recorders court yesterday af- ternoon. Mary Helen was convicted which was promptly paid. The reve- nue cases against the women were dismissed.
 Mary Helen and Hot Tamale" were in drug store at the corner of Dex- ter Avenue and Perry Street, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when they spied a negro, Bibb Watkins, who look ed credulous. The negro entered the store and Prof. W. B. Patterson, who was present, saw the Helen woman sIyly reach into the pockets of the ne- gro and extract therefrom $1. A sec ond only had elapsed before the negro was aware that he had been robbed He made a report to Patrolman J. L.. Jackson and the patrolman arrested the women.
 On reaching police headquarters, the Helen woman asked to compromise the case by returning the negro his money. Watkins took the money, but the cases were docketed.
 In the police court, Professor Patter- son was the main witness for the city. He testified that he saw the woman steal the money from the negro while Hot Tamale" woman was engaged in
 frCa Oft h 1ap negro.
 The women, who claim to be Greeks, but who are more probably Syrians. were followed by everyone of their race in the city, Not one of them could ut- ter an ineligible English sentence
 After some coaxing and interpreta- tion. it was finally understood by the testimony of the two women that Mary Helen did not go into the pocket of the negro. Their statement was that the negro had given them $1 to tell his fortune He reconsidered and de- manded his money back. They said they returned it to him. but he persist ed in having them arrested At the police station, they were so trlgntened 1 that they offered him another dollar Recorder Baber found the Helen woman guilty and, with sardoni2 | smile. A male member of the gypsy ! hand paid SIS into the city treasury.
 In prosecuting the case Police Cap. tain Taylor pronounced this class or people to be parasites" and said he l saw no reason why they should not be dealt with harshly .- .. | When this band of gypsies came to i AIontoonoerv several days ago, they formed themselves into the Mary For tYne Telling Company" put up at a tent near Riverside Park and secured i license from the city in the name of the company for which $zo was Palu nl, since that time, the gypsies have been scnuring inc city hunting for people desiring t9 have their fortune told.
 Recorder Baber. dismissed the reve- me cases hut he enlightened the gyp- sies on the law. He told them that #, under the license they hold each oi them might tell fortuhes tl'sv violated % '' tbt t Iaw in soliciting downtown, unless aa"b of them had a license.