Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — GYPSIES GET STUNG HARD. [ARTICLE]

GYPSIES GET STUNG HARD.

Left About $230 In Monticello and Delphi As Result of Releiving a Yeoman Merchant of S4O. The gypsy gang that was chased through Monticello by a crowd of Carroll county farmers, brief mention of Which was made in Wednesday’s Democrat, was overhauled at Reynolds and taken back to White county’s capital, where a half dozen of them were fined and costed for fast driving to the extent of >SO, which they paid. While dirty, ragged and apparently being quite poverty-stricken, they had plenty of cash which they dug-iip and paid their fines. One man flashed a certificate of deposit on a Chicago bank, the Monticello papers state, for $7,000. The woman in the gang who is alleged to have stclen S4O from the pocket of J. B. Hurt, a Yeoman storekeeper, which started the trouble, was taken to Delphi 'and lodged in jail. She was tried in the circuit court Wednesday, found guilty and fined SIOO by the jury, who recommended that imprisonment be suspended. Later, on recommendation from nine of the jurors who did not understand that the verdict carried with it a heavy prison sentence, also the prosecutor, the court set aside the jury's verdict and fined her SIOO and sentenced her to 11 months in jail, suspending the jail sentence during good behavior. The fine and costs amounted to $145.74, which the gang paid, and hiked out. They also had attorney* to pay, and it is likely dropped $250 in good hard cash as a result of their fun. The Yeoman merchant, judging from the newspaper accounts of the affair, was an easy victim, and, while he got his S4O back, he deserved to lose It. It Is probable these roving pests will give Carroll county and Monticello a wide berth for some time to come. *