Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1914 — BAND OF GYPSIES [ARTICLE]

BAND OF GYPSIES

Nomads Took Dip in Tip at Winamac, Invaded Monticello, and Robbed a Man at Brookston, - - -- {X' , r ........ Rensselaer is fortunate in being missed by a greasy band of gypsies who traveled though Winamac Wednesday, reached Monticello Friday and went on to Brookston and thenee toward Lafayette. The same band had a ffght with officers at Goshen about a month ago and five of them w£re wounded, two dying since that time. They camped over night on the Tippecanoe river near Winamac and the next morning stripped off and took a swim. The Winamac Republican says that dusky damsels unabashed dived from the banks and paraded in the shallow ■waters within a few feet of the roadway, along which rigs were traveling, and September morn Was a back number compared to the immodest gypsies. ;

At Monticello seventeen wagons arrived Friday morning and the greasy women at once began invading the stores and offices trying to induce men to have their fortunes told. Their actions were suspicious and ofli?<rs hurried them out of town: Later s. -band, probably the same ones, appeared at Brookston, where Wilson Joyce, a liveryman, claimed that one of the women shot her hand into his trousers pocket and stole $lO It is a violation of the law for gypsies to camp along the road side or to enter and camp upon any premises without permission of the land owner and it is the duty of officers to keep these thieving and filthy people moving.