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Show GYPSY IB FID 125 EACH. TODAY IH POLICE COURT "I'll have to leavo this town, that's all there is to it. All the money we've made Is In there." The speaker was a Gypsy woman, member of the band that figured in a big disturbance Tuesday evening on lower Twenty-fifth street. As she spoke the woman pointed toward the desk sergeant's office and, to her wailing wail-ing remark, the officers in the room could almost bo heard to say a fervent fer-vent "Amen." It was after the morning session of the municipal court, durnlg which the circumstances surrounding the disturbance dis-turbance wero rehearsed by nearly a dozon witnesses, pro and con, resulting result-ing in the finding of N Adams, Laura Marko and Mary Mitchell, Gypsies, and Jake and Thomas Langland, Iowans, guilty of disturbing the peace. The quintet wore each sentenced to serve 25 days in jail or to pay a $25 fine. Tho Gypsies paid up and tho Americans went to jail. The case attracted a crowd that fill ed tho court room to capacity and occupied tho timo of the court more than an hour. According to tho arresting ar-resting officers, Sergeant Blackburn and Detectivo Walter L. Moore, tho caso at bar was only ono of numerous Instances where complaints have been made that the Gypsy fortuno tollors on lower Twenty-fifth street have attempted, sometimes successfully, to extort money from men by questionable question-able methods. In this case, however, it appeared that two of the men Involved In-volved were partlos to the disturbance at Its inception and that the third, Adams, Ad-ams, "horned in." A large club, it was said, also figured in tho fracas, but the only party Injured was Jake Langland who, as he put it, was "popped" "pop-ped" in the eye by Adams. According to Sergeant Blackburn, lower Twenty-fifth street "looked like clrcuB day" when ho arrived on the scone, and Detective Mooro made" this declaration stronger by saying that the situation might have developed into in-to a riot had not the arrests been quickly made. |