Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-23
use BABES FOR CLUBS
Enraged Gypsies Swing Chill
dren at inspectors.
ONE LITTLE GIRL STUNNED
Band of Immigrants Angered Be-
cause Ordered Deported.
CAME FROM BUENOS AIRES
Women Try to Bite United States
Officials, Who Drive Them Aboard
Steamer to Be Taken Back.
CAME FROM BUENOS AIRES

NEW YORK. July 23.-Wild with rage
| because they were to be sent back to
Buenos Aires after travelling thousands
of miles and spending their money for
transportation. a band of gypsies fought
immigration deporting officers with feroc-
ity yesterday
They lay down upon the pier of the
Lamport & Holt line, near the old Rob-
erts stores, Brooklyn, and refused to
bulge. Then having been previously
stripped of all their weapons they grab
bed their little children using them as
bludgeons to attack the inspectors.
The band. consisting of twenty-four
persons. six men, eight women and ten
children. who had come here on the Ten
nyson on their way to Oakland Cal, had
been promptly ordered deported al
though they had twenty-five pieces of
baggage and S1,O0.
Commissioner Williams and the mem
bers of the board of inquiry decided that
the Romany tribe, even with their re-
sources, were not desirable aliens, ow-
ing to traditional fondness for other
peoples horses and chickens.
Told to Leave by Signs.
No interpreter on Ellis Island could
speak the Romany tongue and the pic
of their deportation only by signs They
were put board the tug John j. Tim
minis yesterday morning and taken to the
Verdi, which was to sail for Buenos
Aires at 10 o'clock
Their hands cleaned with rings. Fan
tastic necklaces and earrings relieved
the color of their dark skin. The men
were muscular, with white teath. The
big chief had long hair. with heavy black
mustache, broad trimmed ha; and gold
rings in his ears.
Their wicker basket and metal trunks
We're piled in the bow of the tug. When
the Verdi was reached and a plank run
out to a gate in the side of the steamer
the sypsies refused to move.
Inspector Tylson had the tug back
down upon the bulkhead AS the band
went ashore upon the bulkhead they
were rounded up by the four deporta-
ton officers. They were driven through
the door of the pier shed and down to
the gangway.
Women Shrieked and Bit.
TYSON grabbed the chief to run him
up the plank. when the women threw
themselves upon him, struck him with
their hands and flung themselves down
upon the pier. They shrieked and tried
to bite the chief inspector. AS he push
ed them back and struck out at them
the women rushed back to their children
and in a blind fury seized their offspring
by the legs swinging them about like
clubs. One woman with her main
strength dashed her baby against an
inspector struggling with her husband.
Working his way back from the ship
the chief seized a slim little girl and
used her for weapon. Her head struck
against a door, cutting her on the fore
head and the cheek When she was
wrested at last from the chiefs grip
the little girl was unconscious.
The passengers on the deck of the
Verdi were excited by so unusual and
violent a scene. Some women turned
away. The pier was in a riot, but the
crew was not allowed to interfere.
At last the husky longshoremen joined
in with the inspectors. They seized the
gypsies. kicked. showed and punched them
aboard the steamer. Two children, who
were being carried face down, with blood
streaming from their wounds, were taken
from their frenZied mothers.