Arizona republican., 1920-12-13
LONG SEARCH ENDED
 AS FATHER FINDS
 GIRL IN GYPSY BAND

After spending all her life snice childhood with a rowing band of gyp- sies, who declare that they bought her from her father, who charges in turn that she was kidnapped when @ little girl by the gypsies. Rosa, the little girl grown to womanhood, was reunited yesterday at Douglas with her father, Eli Miguel, who passed through Blsbee yesterday to claim his missing daugh- ter after search of seven years.
 Seven years ago. in the little village Of Charlottesville, $. C., there lived Eli Miguel, a Peruvian, employed by the United States government as horse buyer, and his 12-year-old daughter Rosa. Miguel was prosperous and happy in the thought that some day his daughter, who already showed tal ent as violinist, would grow up to be a great musician.
 Then there came to the village q rowing band of gypsics, including one Spera Antono, a handsome, brilliant wanderer, glib of tongue, who soon per suaded the childish Rosa, according to the father, that the wild life Of a gypsy was a rose-lined path, and she followed him away from her happy home for 9 thrilling lIe Ot adventure.
 Spera Antono has a different story to tell He declares that Rosa's father sold her to him for the sum of $2,200 and that she is lawful .wedded wife.
 In either event, the father was heart broken, and it became the aim of his life to recover his child. About three months ago he learned that a band of gypsies was headed for the Pacific coast in automobiles. He obtained leave from the government and was soon hot on the trail. All of this time the department of justice was working on the case and learned in some way l that band of gypsies was on it's way | from Tombstone to Douglas. Fred j. Wright, former secret service man now a private detective at Phoenix vas notified by wire to take charge oi l the case for Miguel, who was also headed for Douglas and passed through Bisbee yesterday.
 The gypsy band was rounded up yes ! terday and taken to the police station at Douglas. Here a dramatic scene
 was enacted when father and daughter met after their long separation. Th' police station was quickly filled Wlti gaily- adorned gypsies.
 With the first thrill and pathos ol the meeting over, plans were forinu'
 
 tono's three-yea old child, who was under the care of it's mother-in-law a
 the gypsy camp near the city pound
 Mrs. Antono had previously expressed
 her desire to accompany her fathe
 home. but refused to leave the chll'
 with the gypsy band. She declare(
 that her husband had mistreated he and that he would mistreat the child
 Accompanied by the detective ant
 several police officers, Mrs. Anton'
 proceeded to the camp. X wild seen
 followed Everyone talked at once
 in broken English. in Austrian. anC
 in other languages known and un
 known. There were cries Of anguish pleading. shouts of laughter epithet hurled at the police, at Mrs. Anton' and at one another. By sheer fore Mrs. Antono tore the frightened chil away from the mother law an sprang into the waiting automobile Before the police officers had chanc to climb in themselves the automobil was filled with sypsies. They finall dislodged all but the mother -in-lav who could hardly have been dislodge with anything short of a stick Q dynamite.
 Here the story might have ende had not Mrs. Antono sought to talk 1 possession of money and jewel which she declared were in the auto mobile driven to the police station b her husband. She had the child, an possession is nine-tenths of the law but when she approached the car he husband snatched the baby from he . arms The pOlice were powerlesS