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Kissed Their Hands

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Kissed Their Hands

Five Foreigners in Justice Doty's Court.

Made Officials Blush

Justice and Prosecutor Had Their Hand Kissed.

They Tried to Compel Mrs. Teufel to Have Her Fortune Told and Helped Themselves to Money and Eatables.

There was a peculiar case up in Justice Doty's court Friday. Five dark skinned women who looked like Indians but claimed to be Russians from Odessa were brought in by Officer Isbell. The charge laid against them was larceny from a store in the day time. Mrs. G. C. Teufel was the complainant. The women went into her store and called for five cent worth of candy. Mrs. Teufel waited on them when the old woman of the party took her hand and pretended to tell her fortune at the same time the old woman picked up 35 cents which was laying on the counter. She also a moment later reached over and took 50 cents out of the till. Lastly she asked Mrs. Tuefel to give her a package of coffee and it would be all right although she usually charged $5. But Mrs. T. said: "I did not want my fortune told and you must give me back my money." The old lady gave her back 50 cents and the crowd left taking some oranges as they left.

When brought into court they were a hard looking lot. Their talk and motions and protestations were frightul. One of them said: "Me no kill," at the same time drawing her hand across her throat, "Me no steel. My beeness is all. I tell fortunes."

She thought Marshal Sweet ought to have his fortune told and agreed to do it for a dollar. Two of the five protested that they were not present an had nothing to do with the offense charged. One of the two with frantic motions told Officer Sweet she had a baby (it was not in evidence) and must go. He said never mind we will take care of the baby. Then she began to motion frantically again and tried to make is clear that he did not understand by proceding to convince him by ocular demonstration that the baby story was no fake The officall was convinced. When the case was called this afternoon they shed tears and plead hard to be let off and Prosecutor Kirk let them go on condition that they would proceed at once to put great remoteness between themselves and Ann Arbor. They delayed not on the manner of their going. It is understood that there is quite a gang of them with several rigs outside the city. Officers went with the women to make sure of their departure.

The women made their adieus in foreign fashion kissing the hands of Justice Doty and of Prosecuting Attorney Kirk, who very bashfully received the salutation. And so ended the first case in Justice Doty's office.