The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-07-14

NOmads Visit Stores and Cuss PrOprie-
tors When Shoaed 0ut-Game War
den Metcalf Special Object of Vituper-
ation-Amusing Incidents.
The peaceful atmosphere of Main
street was rudely disturbed yesterday
afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock, when
large contingent of gypsies travelling in
seven large touring cars descended upon
the town by way of High street. The
attention of people walking along the
street at the time was called sharply to
the sudden inroad of these nomads by
| the screeching and tearing emanating
from one of the cars which suffered CON
siderable damage in negotiating the turn
| from High street into Main. A gypsy
woman happened to be driving this par
| ticular car and as the machine coasted
down High street and came to a stop at
the corner to allow street car to pass,
| the driver failed to throw her lever out
OF high gear. The engine meanwhile
was turning at high speed and when she
threw in the clutch with the lever still
! IL high gear position the rear pinion
| gear gave way with a terrific tearing
noise.
Sheriff Frank Z. Wellman and Officer
| ". Il. Tyler, who happened to be in
| that locality, ordered the cars to move
on. but the gypsy woman driver lost no
time in taking issue with the sheriff.
/ She told him that he couldn't put her
out of town and she wouldn't move until
she was good and ready. SAYING that he
better mind his own d-n business
As the automobile was in immediate
need OF repair. 1t was taken to Manley
1eDrhpFS w %
was fixed over night. Five of the cars
Kept on moving and went up the Wes,t
River road. One other car in addition
to the damaged machine, came to halt
| Just beyond the town ball, and several
! Of the women visited the grocery and
dgggoods stores to obtain supplies 4
careful watch was kept on them by the
police as the gxpsies are said TO have
a mania for the appropriation of goods
without offering to make payment there
for. One of the women entered the
Vermont Savings bank and. pushing her
hand under the grating at one of the
windows. asked to have bin changed
She was invited to make an immediate
exit.
The machines which went on up the
| West River road came to a stop near
the John Vivier place, where the gypsies
| prepared to make camp. One of the
| men, with the idea of adding touch of
! dc icacy to the evening meal. went over
TO the river bank and soon became en-
gra ssed in the art so faithfully ex-
pounded by Isaac Walton. In the mean.
| tiI9e. the local police had been care
| fully following the trail of the gypSies.
| Spying the man fishing, they approached
hiil and he was found to be minus a Ii
cense He was arrested by County Fish
/ and Game Warden r. ii. Metcalf and
I taken to the police station.
! On the way there one of the women.
who claimed to be the mans wife. rode
on the running board. cursing and hurl-
/ ing vile epithets Mt Mr.. Metcalf When
booked at the police. station. the gypsy
! fisherman was asked his name and he
+ answered. Charlie Chaplin of Detroit,
cousin Of Henry Ford" Officer Ty-
Ter asked him if the woman who rode
4 on the running board was Mary Pick
1 ford or Norma Talmadge," which
was the occasion for more emphatic
/ language. The prisoner produced $50
as cash bail for a hearing today in the
municipal court and was released.
In the municipal court this morn
| ing Charlie Chaplin" appeared by coun-
sci only being represented by Attorney
/ Ernest W. Gibson. A plea of guilty was
entered and Judge Frank ID. II. Stowe
] fined the respondent S25 and costs,
amounting in all to $50. 40.
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