The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-01
ERIskED FOR HER MONEY
Dark. Skinned Mind Reader Told
Tale to Austin Sheriff

Tale to Austin Sheriff
Austin, August 2S.-Had the black
eyed Spanish mind reader, whose
tent has been pitched at the county
fair applied her mystic art when "a
dark skinned, gaunt looking man"
asked her for two bits" because
he was starving. perhaps she would
not have been robbed of $500 by
that dark skinned" william.
Mary John is the senora's name.
Dressed in skirkt of royal purple
with a black fur coat and head
dress of pink cloth, she sobbed out
her story to Sheriff Nicholson and
a few minutes later the whole city
was seeming a scandal as Deputy
Sheriff Syck was seen JOY riding
with the brilliantly clad Spanish
girl, whose big black eyes were
streaming tears. The deputy was
the family, consisting of the mind
reader, her mother, her sister and
dark skinned man" -.
In broken English she told her
story. She said that nean came to
her tent, where she reads the minds
of people. and asked her for enough
to get something to eat. He said he
had had nothing to eat for several
days and was awful hungry. She
took pity on him and handed over
a quarter. Then he went away. She
had seen him around the tent at
other times during the fair.
The time came to close the tent.
Beds were spread upon the floor and
the family, consisting of the mind
reader, her mother, her sister and
her sisters husband and mother.
and the Spanish gypsy's camp slept.
The mind reader had in her pos
session three hundred one dollar
bills. These she had brought along
to provide medical care for her sis
ter, as the stork is expected at the
fair grounds today. The $500 was
kept in a rag pocket This was plac-
ed on the floor under the nina
readers mother.
The noises of the fair died away
and the Spanish gypsy's camp slept.
The mentality of the mind reader
was off guard Into the tent crert
the erst-while starving dark skin
ned man" He knew just where to
look for that money, for through the
tent he had watched the family re-
tire to slumber
The aged mother of the mind read
er is of heavy build. She lay upon
the money. The william was no anna
teur. He stroked the face of the old
woman and she rolled to one side to
avoid the annoying hand: Then she
called out in Spanish: Mary don't
touch my face"
The mind reader at once arose,
Just in time to see by the dim light
of four o'clock in the morning the
dark skinned man" grab the money
and run out of the tent.
There were but two dollars in the
Spanish senora's tent the following
coffee for breakfast II could not
give them coffee for have only the
two dollars for the sister when the
baby comes" she told the blushing
sheriff. ~ a.-
morning. The little children had no
She says she is of Spanish birth
and came to America some eighteen
years ago. She lives in Duluth with
her husband who is a coppersith.
During the summer she goes about
the country reading minds.
She says she had bad luck this
year. This was the first county fair
that she has been able to get into TO
perform her feats of telling what
was in other peoples minds.
She came here with the $500 and
wanted to keep that intact. The Sec
rotary of the fair charged her TWEEN
ty dollars for the privilege of pitch
ing her tent CO the grounds. She
took twenty dollar gold piece from
a chain around her neck and gave
it, up for the license, she says, land
then they made me put my tent
away over to one side where no one
ever came except the thief. ! did
not take in a nickle since l have
been here" Tears streamed down
her face all the time she was telling
of the tragedy that has come to her
and she added a God will bless
you if you will help me get back
the money.