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Dowager Empress of All the Gypsies Arrested in Joplin.Mother of Jo#? A damn Is ChargedWith Telling Fortunes Without a License—Pays Fine and Is Released.Bent with ago, but her figure deceiving the most observant, Marie Adams, declared to be 103 years old, queen of the gypsies and mother of the noted Joe Adams, king of the band, faced the bars of the Joplin jail yesterday for telling:* 'B'jlfortunes without a license. She had escaped the detection of her guards and reached the streets, planning to earn a new cloak by telling fortunes.The old woman was a prisoner but a short time, however, and she was never locked up. She was arrested by Assistant Chief of Police Clarence Kier. Alleged to have begun plying the vocation characteristic of her race, before contributing thu required fee to the city, she was taken Into custody.In company with two grandsons, each grown, she walked to the police station, several blocks from where she was arrested. Her age seems to have affected her ability In that respect but very little and she offered no objection to walking.She was told that she had not paid alicense and, therefore, would not be permitted to tell fortunes in Joplin until she compiled with the city ordinance.A protest immediately went up from the leader of the gypsies In America. In her native tongue she delivered a flow of words that surely contained some remarks directed at the police captain, and 't was apparent that she would rather have further considered the case. The grandsons finally paid the license fee of $7 and Marie was declared free. The three then left the police station.The Adams family is at the head of all gypsy bands In the United States. There are four generations represented in the two camps of the foreigners In and near Joplin ar the present time, one camp being located at Barbee park and the other at Castle Hock, near Jop- I lin.Although the bands are divided, they travel as one body. They have been operating In Joplin for several days, telling fortunes and living the typical gypsy life. It is their annual visit to the mining district, never a year passing without their calling upon Joplin citizens to hear the secrets of the future revealed.Queen Marie, who has seen more than a century on th® road, has abandoned the fortune telling. She remains at the j camp, while others go abroad to read the lines in the hands of Americana. On account of her age, she Is constantly guarded. Yesterday she stole away, however, bent upon earning enough to purchase a new cloak, but before she had accomplished her purpose she found herself In charge of the police.
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Dec 23, 1910
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