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Ithree are arrested ON ‘VOODOO’ CHARGESPrince Georges Police Also Order Four Others to Leave County.I By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.HYATTSVILLE. Md.. October 22.— Having arrested three tourist camp patrons on voodoo' charges yesterday. Prince Georges County police today ordered four other persons in the camp, whom they claim to be gypsies, to leave the county.The trio held were arrested after Thomas Parran, colored, of Bladens-burg. asked his employer for a loan of S5 to pay a fortune teller.” who had informed him he would surely die if he did not get some money for her to return two locks of his hair which, she ! claimed, had been stolen from him during his sleep and buried in a graveyard.Parran’s employer called police, who gave the colored man a marked bill and accompanied him into the tourist camp at Berwyn. They arrested Dinah Weston on charges of false pretenses and William Weston and Peter Longstar on charges of being accessories. Charges of possession of liquor were also lodged against the trio.i The four persons in the tourist camp were ordered to move under the law which prohibits gypsies from camping in Prince Georges.
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sun, Oct 23, 1932
Page 6
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