GIPSY JUSTICE
SALE OF A DAUGHTER
BUCHAREST. April 14
Gipsies from the Craiova district 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 lied to a distant village taking her with him.
The injured suitors ttppealed to lite gipsy court, mid a search party was ordered to find and arrest him. i’ahani was .sentenced to 35 strokes of a cowhide 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1937, Page 2
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