GIPSY JUSTICE
According to a report from Bucharest, gipsies from Craiva have been discovered to maintain their own primitive courts of justice. A gipsy called Yova Pahani some months ago accepted sums equivalent to £2O from no fewer than three suitors for the hand of his daughter,, and then fled to a distant village, taking her with him.
The injured suitors appealed to the gipsy court, and a search party was ordered to find and arrest him. Pahandi was sentenced to 35 strokes of a cow-hide whip, and ordered to return the bride prices. As he was found to be penniless, it was decided that his daughter should be betrothed to the highest bidder for her hand, and that the proceeds should be awarded to the three prosecutors.
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Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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128GIPSY JUSTICE Evening Star, Issue 22631, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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