FORETOLD HER OWN DOOM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 8

FORETOLD HER OWN DOOM

Fulfilling her own Gipsy Lee, queen of the Boswell clan of Kent gipsies, died in her caravan home at Tugmutton, Farnborough, Kent. For weeks she had lain ill, and one day she said: ‘ On the third day from now I shall die, and on that day it ■ will rain." She had been greatly worried by the grave illness of her favourite daughter, Norah, who is in Farnborough Hospital, and from whom the news of her mother’s death was kept secret. Gipsy Lee, who was 82, was the widow of Mr Levi Boswell, the king of his clan, whose funeral in 1924 was attended by gipsies from all over the South of England, and 1 the eldest daughter of the famous original Gipsy Lee, of Brighton, who claimed to have read the hand of Kine Edward. She remained faithful to a caravan, although the others in the encampment had long since given way to cottages, and there was always a stream of curious visitors to her caravan. Many came in cars.