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Show GYPSY QUEEN FUEE. fJETS A CHICAGO DIVORCE moM HER MU8DAND. flolatti Romany Tradition hj Apptal. ' o L. Tlc. (ho Wnt u .1,4 fltn llulia-Xow freo la IJ. wllh la. 1. (Special Utter frhm vnf Hi: fit-it dhorce P ever granted to a i gypey Id Chicago fj wa ImuoI by 7 Judge Urtntnno In J . tho auperlor court ll to Toda Uwnna f witch, dethrone It queen of tho Ilo-A Ilo-A many camp at For-!' For-!' ' M r ty ecventh trcet and Wetcrn avenue Arrayed In bright nnery, wllh bendi anil glittering brll- I llanti encircling her neck and boaoni I nnd a turban on her thapcly head the I ex queen told of reflned and varied I cruelty practiced by her huiband, I Htanlilaua Uwanawllch Mrt Uwana- I witch, who U twent) two yeare old and I pretty, gave her testimony In fluent I Englleh Her chargca wero corroborate I ed bytwoof hcrawarlhy aubjecti The appearance of the gypy ex queen in t court In etrnnge roetume attracted con , aldcrable attention nnd Judge llnntano I waa compelled to order tho doora j doted before tho taking of teatlmony ; Toda laid aho waa married to her hut- i band In a camp In Mlaalaalppl two year ago, after having been purchaaed L from her father b) the bridegroom for j $100. I-n.it May alio ran away from I her huiband and the Chicago camp, "1 y lila cruelty cauaed her flight The people of the camp raptured her and took her back, but alio refined to JDDDD B TUB OTI'SV qUKF.N IN COUIIT, ? live with her huaband 8he declare 'i ha then tied her to a poet In a tent Jc along with a huge cinnamon bear. A " chain waa faatened around her neck M , vrltluaii Iron ring He kept her thua '"J ( fordaya One of the young men In the I camp loved and pitied tho fair prlaoncr 1 and appealed to the tyrant huaband for roleaae. Stanislaus, satisfied hla wife a affection waa loat to him finally agreed to till her to hla rival for II CO The caah waa paid and tho ex queen re- leaaed Toda waa not grateful to her liberal admirer Bho refuted to marry ID him Another leaa gallant aultor bad 15 captured tho heart of the gypay queen ( and aho loon married him with gypay ft rite. Thla aroused tbo anger of the r (110 admirer and he Joined with Stan- U lalaua In peraecutlng her afreah They I tried to frighten her by declaring aho 1, waa a blgamlat, and thla drove Toda I to conault n lawyer Then the divorce project waa born and a bill wa tiled L In the auperlor court According to F the complainant the action broke all 1 gypay tradition Stanlalaua made no L defense Like all hi race ho ha a f horror of courta and the way of mod I era clvllliatlon He ald no attention j! to the notice aerved on blm and tho ex- I gypy queen and her two wltncaae I told their atorlea without I- Ing contra dieted Toda grew angry wfon alio de- 'j acrlbed how alio had betn halned up J and her baby taken frotr her to be old at ome futuro day Kor deserting her huaband aho laid the had been beaten nnd punlahed In varloue cruel way. According to the Itomany law, her huaband hua-band waa her abaotute muter and not until he hod told her did he loeo con- Itrol of her The auggeatlon that If the court ahould recognlto n gypay marriage mar-riage by granting a divorce ahe would bo liable to arreat for bigamy did not worry Toda Tho gyptlea.ahe explained to her attorney, had too great an aver-alon aver-alon to law court to take any action Judge Ilrentano did not nllude to tho bigamy phaae and It wa not brought to hi attention The evidence waa deemed by blm lufllclent to Juatlfy decree being granted, nnd o he ordered or-dered When the gypay queen returned to the camp In the evening with tho decree ahe ropalred to the tent of her aecond huatiand, and no gypay In tho ctttlement dared dlapute hi right and her The big red aeal and the ribbon on the decree teemed potent to them |