Newspaper reports 2
Newspaper reports 2
WEALTHY GYPSIES EXTRACTED FROM THE PHILADEPHIA PRESS. (Thanks to Sandy Buckland)
A LIST OF THE MORE FORTUNATE MODERN NOMADS
Gypsies known to be gypsies and most of whom participate in the regular Summer time wandering life, thousands have acquired competence and wealth.
HENRY STANLEY of ST PAUL owns farm and city property amounting to over $ 10.000
THE COOPER family of EAST SOMERVILLE BOSTON are altogether worth $250.000
HENRY JOWLES owns 7 acres of land and several houses within the corporate limits of SPRINGFIELD IIL
RICHARD JOWLES has nearly a dozen houses near the rolling Mills in that city.
JOSEPH CRABTREE whom gypsies hint as being a distant relative of a noted Actress owns city property in LIVERPOOL ENGLAND and one of the largest sales Stables as well as much property in WASHINGTON
URIAH WHARTON possesses fully worth $200.000 of real estate in and about NEW YORK
LEWIS BUTLER owns a farm near CEDAR RAPIDS IA and on ALUM CREEK near COLUMBUS OHIO and is worth $50.000
WILLIAM HALL has a large and valuable plantation near HOLLY SPRINGS MISSISSIPI
JOHN HARRISON owns a great many fine houses in WASHINGTON considerable property at PITTSBURGH and is counted worth $150.000
HENRY WHARTON has $25.000 worth of real estate and houses in at SPRINGFIELD IIL and ROBERT SMITH of same place is worth £10.000
RICHARD REYNOLDS owns one of the finest farms in SENEEN COUNTY OHIO near SWOPES CORNER
JOHN BOSWELL owns large brick block in TORONTO CANADA and is one of the moneyed men of that city
JOHN BROADWAY of BUFFALO is said to be worth $50.000 in farm and city property
Another of the BROADWAYS owns much property in DETROIT and ST CATHERINES CANADA
One of the BOSWELLS owns a large Grist mill paying him an annual rent of $1.500 and a splendid farm at OAKLAND STATION near ROCK ISLAND
ELIAS BREWER owns $50.000 worth of property in city of MILWAUKEE
SPRING BREWER owns a hotel and other property at FLINT MICHAGAN
FRED BREWER has large stables and much property at FORT SCOTT KANDAS
WILLIAM STEWART owns a well stocked ranch 16 miles from AUSTIN TEXAS
JOB STANLEY has several thousand dollar's worth of wood land in the same locality
The STANLEYS & REYNOLDS of OHIO are very rich and :
HENRY STANLEY of EVANSVILLE INDIANA owns a farm and city property while
THOMAS, MARK and HENRY JEFFS and the PIERSONS with the HARRISONS and JOWLES of DAYTON OHIO
own nearly all the finest farming land for 6 miles north of the of that city, town property in DAYTON and together are worth certainly half a million Dollars.
This will incomprehensible to many but I make it as a statement of the fact that I could fill a every column of this page with names and addresses and property estimates of nearly a thousand gypsies heads of families in this country whose combined wealth will exceed $ 40.000.000
PHILADEPHIA PRESS
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1867 14TH AUGUST
A FEW YEARS AGO A MAN NAMED STANLEY DIED HE WAS THE KING OF THE GYPSIES IN THIS COUNTRY ,HE WAS TAKEN TO DAYTON FOR BURIAL SINCE NO MATTER WHERE A MEMBER OF THE TRIBE DIES THEY ARE TAKEN BACK TO DAYTON FOR BURIAL
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GYPSY DIVORCE SUIT 1882 30TH MARCH OHIO
LEVI LEFFMAN HUSBAND OF MATILDA LEFFMAN /STANLEY THE GYPSY QUEEN HAS SUED HIS WIFE FOR DIVORCE HE AVERS HE WAS LEGALLY MARRIED TO HER IN BOLIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI IN JANUARY 1881 AND THAT SHE WENT TO DAYTON WITH HER FAMILY LATER THAT SAME YEAR AND ON 23RD OF SEPT WAS GIVEN IN MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM JEFFREY WITH WHOM SHE LIVED AS HIS WIFE VER SINCE.
THESE GYPSIES ARE WELL KNOWN ARE WELL KNOWN THROUGH OUT THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES.
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1901 MAY 9TH OHIO
THE GYPSY, HARRISON/ GORMAN/ COOPER/ JEFFERIES/ TRIBES OF HORSE TRADING GYPSIES THE RICHEST AND LARGEST ROAMING BAND IN OHIO CROWNED LULA MAY GORMAN THE GYPSY QUEEN AT THEIR CAMP IN HAMILTONON ARIL 30TH
THE TRIBE HAS BEEN UNDER A REGENCY SINCE THE DEATH A YEAR AGO OF THEIR QUEEN AND ACCORDING TO GYPSY CUSTOM THEIR NEW QUEEN COULDN'T BE CROWNED UNTIL SHE REACHED 19 YEARS, WHICH SHE DID THAT DAY
THE QUEEN WAS RICHLY GOWNED IN WHITE SATIN AND WAS CROWNED BY THE OLDEST WOMAN IN THE TRIBE
FIVE HUNDRED GYPSIES CAME MANY COMING A GREAT DISTANCE AND AFTER THERE WAS A DANCE
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1905 JUNE 4TH OHIO
PRISONER LOCKED UP FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY
EDDIE GORMAN 22 SON OF LEADER OF GORMAN TRIBE OF GYPSIES WITH COOPER TRIBE OF GYPSIES CAMPED NEAR SEVENMILE OHIO WAS ONE OF 2 MEN WHO ROBBED GRANT BLOSSOM OF HIS HORSE WHIP LAP ROBE AND $3
GORMAN WAS HELD UNDER A $ 1.00 BAIL AND KEPT IN JAIL AWAITING A HEARING THE FOLLOWING DAY
IT WAS SUGGESTED GROMAN HAD BOUGHT A HORSE FROM BLOSSOM AND WHEN BLOSSOM FOUND IT TO BE A BAD TRADE ASKED FOR MONEY BACK THATS WHEN GORMAN AND LEONARD COOPER ATTACKED HIM AND ROBBED HIM.
THIS MORNING GORMAN GAVE HIS BOND BY SURETY OF MR O BURNS AND WAS RELEASED
LEONARD COOPER WHO WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY IS STILL HELD IN AT THE STATON HOUSE HIS HEARING WILL BE TOMORROW.
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JACOB LOVE MURDERS OLD GYPSY 1908 SEPT 11TH
SAMSON COOPER STABBED TO DEATH ON BELLE STREET PURPOSES OF ROBBERY SUNDAY NIGHT
AN OLD GYPSY SAMSON COOPER WAS STABBED SUNDAY NIGHT ABOUT 6 O' CLOCK AT MADISON AND BELLE STREET UNDER THE FULL GLARE OF A ELECTRIC STREET LIGHT BY JACOB LOVE AN ALTON NEGRO OF UNSAVOURY CHARACTER.
LOVE IS IN JAIL HAVING BEEN ARRESTED ON SUNDAY NIGHT ABOUT MIDNIGHT IN A BARN ON THE PLACE OF A K ROOT WHERE HE HAD TAKEN REFUGE WITH CHARLES TOWNSEND.
THE MURDER WAS UNPROVOKED COOPER CAME TO TOWN A WEEK AGO WITH A PARTY OF GYPSIES WHO ENCAMPED ON BELLE STREET OPPOSITE THE DEAD MANS HOUSE, AT THE CITY LIMITS.
HE WAS 60 YRS OLD AND ON ACCOUNT OF HIS AGE HAD GIVEN UP HORSE TRADING BUT HIS ROVING SPIRIT WOULD NOT PERMIT HIM TO SETTLE IN ONE PLACE.
HE WAS TRAVELLING WITH A PARTY CONSISTING OF DICK JOLES WILLIAM & OLIVER BROADWAY
SUNDAY THE OLD MAN HAD BEEN DRINKING AND WAS DOWN TOWN ABOUT 6 O CLOCK HE MET CARROLL HALL A YOUNG MAN WHO HE ASKED HIM TO ASSIST HIM TO THE GYPSY CAMP IN BELLE STREET , HALL WAS ASSISITING HIM WHEN JACOB LOVE A NERGO APPROACHED COOPER AND TOLD THE BOY HE WOULD TAKE HIM TO THE CAMP LOVE WAS A STOUT FELLOW AND HALL ALLOWED HIM TO ASSIST COOPER WITHIN ABOUT 5 MINUTES COOPER WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED STABBED, ONE KNIFE STAB INTO HIS HEART THE OTHER INTO THE BACK OF HIS NECK DIRECTLY INTO HIS BRAIN.
FRANK DEADMAN FOUND THE BODY LYING BESIDE THE ROAD NEAR DIXON; QUARRY ABOUT 6- 30 AND THE BODY WAS STILL WARM, HE GAVE ALARM AND A MRS MCHENRY WHO LIVED ACROSS THE ROAD SAID SHE SAW LOVE STRIKE COOPER.
WHEN LOVE WAS ARRESTED HE HAD THE KNIFE ON HIM BLOOD STAINED.
THE POLICE INFORMED THE COOPER GYPSIES OF HIS DEATH A TELEGRAM WAS SENT TO ARTHUR WELLS AT WINONA MISSISSIPPI AND ANOTHER TO BESSIE WELLS AT INDIANAPOLIS INFORMING THEM OF HIS DEATH
THE COOPERS SAID THEY WOULD NOT SPARE ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY NOR TIME TO PROSECUTE THE MURDERER
A HENRY WOLF WHO HAS SAID HE MET LOVE ON THAT NIGHT AND LOVE HAD TOLD HIM HE WAS WAITING FOR AN OLD GYPSY WHO OWED HIM A QUARTER AND IF HE DID'NT GET IT HE WAS GONNA CUT HIM GOOD . IT DOES NOT SAY WHAT HAPPENED TO LOVE .
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1911 23RD JANUARY NEW HAMPSHIRE
CORNELIUS COOPER CHIEF OF THE STANLEY TRIBE WHO WAS BURIED IN BOSTON SATURDAY .FOUNDED THE SUMMER GROUND CAMP OF THE TRIBE IN SAGAMERO AVENUE IN THIS CITY FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS, HE VISITED THIS CITY EACH YEAR AND LIVED ON THE OUTSKIRTS THE CITY NEAR SAGINRORO BRIDGE FROM JUNE UNTIL THE LATER PART OF SEPTEMBER.
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DID NOT RECOGNIZE GYPSY PRISONER 1936 27TH JUNE
A POLICE OFFICER AND A MAN AND WOMAN WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN ROBBED BY A GYPSIES IN NORTHERN MICHAGAN CAME TO ALBERT LEN ON FRIDAY HOPING TO IDENTIFY THE GYPSY MEDIE COOPER WHO IS CONFINED IN JAIL THEY FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THE WOMAN.
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In 1914 March 8th Newspaper Report :
SHOCK KILLS GYPSY
Paterson New Jersey during a quarrel in a gypsy camp near here this afternoon Edward Harrison a young gypsy ( son-in-law of Peter Guy)
swung an axe at his chief Thomas Buckland, Thomas thrust out his right arm and was cut to the bone,when Harrison wife told her father Peter Guy he dropped dead with the shock he suffered from heart trouble.Edward Harrison escaped to the woods on Garrett mountain Little Falls police did give chase, but he escaped.Peter Guy was father- in -law to both men
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A GYPSY CHRISTENING
Plainfield New Jersey May 11th
A novel and picturque cermony took place today in the open air meadowland skirting park avenue along the middlesex county border this afternoon when two gypsies babies were christened by the Rev Dr Erskine M Rodman pastor of the Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
The gypsies have been encamped for several weeks on the land of Ellis Campbell owner of the Middlesex Club house during the present month a son was born to James Harrison king of the camp and another to Elisha Cooper whose mother in law ninety year old Mrs Riley is famous oracle of the tribe the christening service was performed among the pictureque wagons and the white tents The gypsy men & women were in gala dress forming a bright contrast to the sombre group pf spectators and clergyman The regular Protestant Episcopal Ceremony was used followed by a chant of the gypsies Spirit songs.May 12th 1892
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The New Yorker Staats Zeitung, on January 15, 1908
Reported the arrest of Budd Stanley, aged 17, and his brother Malone, aged 20, at the camp of the Stanley tribe in White Plains Avenue, Boston Road, on a charge of stealing things worth 1500 (not 15,000) dollars, from the tent of Queen Dora.
The New York Sun, of same date, stated that the Pearses claimed to be Russians born in Mexico, and Gregorio Demetrovitch was their king, and they only spoke Italian and Romany. The Stanleys said they were Austrians, and had been fifteen years in America, trading horses, and in summer camped at Coney Island. Queen Dora had been with her tribe all over Europe, Rumania, Servia, England, and Australia, and she wore three chains composed of coins from wherever she had been. When she married, thirty years before, she had a dowry of 2000 dollars, which she had saved, and every member of the tribe was compelled to add to the pile, till it amounted to 10,000 dollars, kept in one division of the big bag, and gold and silver belts, cups and ornaments, kept in the other division (some of the Stanleys had seen her counting the money the day before the robbery). One of the Gypsies always watched the bag. On the day of the theft Tom Pearse was left on guard, but Levi Stanley induced him to go to the theatre, leaving a woman named Pipa and a boy, Petro Marion, eight years old, in the tent. A gaji inveigled Pipa out to tell her fortune, and Petro wandered out, leaving only two babies, one called Maria Louise, asleep in the tent, and when he returned he witnessed the theft, and told the judge,' If I tell a lie I go to Diabolo, to hell.'
The Vancouver (British Columbia) Advertiser, February 21, said the offence occurred in a field at Boston Road, The Bronx, New York, on December 26, when the rival tribes of Stanley and Pearse were camped near each other in order to celebrate a marriage, which would terminate a feud between them.
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Other undated cuttings from American Jewish papers gave accounts in Yiddish of the wholesale arrest of thirteen Gypsies for stealing 2500 dollars in cash and dollars' worth of jewellery belonging to 'Queen' Dora, Pearse. The prisoners offered to deposit 45,000 dollars' worth of jewellery as bail but it was refused, so they had to wait in gaol until the Sessions, as they hail no ' real estate.' The band had been encamped off White Plains Road, and belonged to 'King' Stanley's tribe. A third tribe was under 'Queen' Bess. They said they made their money by fortune-telling.
Another paper, also in Yiddish, said the prisoners were English Gypsies, and the theft was from some Bohemian Gypsies, one of whom was about to be married.
Another cutting from a Jewish paper stated, in Yiddish, that Richard Stanley, aged thirty, Mitchell Stanley, twenty-eight, Mahoney, twenty, and Budd, fourteen, were accused of stealing 15,000 dollars from the camp of Princess Pipa Shiliva of the Pearse tribe of Gypsies, who were camping near the Stanleys near Boston Post Road on the way to White Plains. They occupied themselves with begging and peddling all kinds of things, and between the two tribes there was always a secret war. The money was stolen on Christmas Eve 1907, from under a mattress in the tent of the Pearse tribe, where it was kept in a satchel, and formed the whole fortune of the tribe. A Gypsy lad gave evidence that he was in the tent, and saw two of the accused cut open the mattress with a sharp knife, and seize the bag of gold. The Court was crowded with members of both the tribes, dressed in their best clothes and wearing all their ornaments.
The New York Evening Post, April 7, reported that the Stanleys were convicted, and the -women, in bright-coloured skirts and headgear and black bodices, moaned and wept till driven from the Court-room
