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Farmer Was Not So Credulous as Wife Who Had Fortune Told, Coatesville, Pa., July 26.—Six jars of preserved cherries, six live chick ens and $12.20, she declared, after being under the spell of a gypsy queen, to what Mary, wife of John Hess, a farmer, gave Bessie Wells, traveling with a tribe of gypsies, for telling her “fortune” on Saturday. Ac cording to the farmer's wife she was to receive the money back, but not until three wishes she made had come true. When Mrs. Hess told her husband what she had done, he came t Coatesville and had a warrant issued for Bessie, who was arraigned before a Justice on a charge of fraud. By paying Mrs. Hess the $12.20, the value cet the chickens, $6, and the costs, the salt was dropped.
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Frederick News
Frederick, Maryland, US
Mon, Jul 26, 1915
Page 8
Full Page
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