Gypsies Run Out of North Bend

Published 2:35 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008

Nomads Pursued Over Snoqualmie Pass by Deputy Sheriffs

The gypsy love song and all the other

romantic glamour of the colorful nomads is lost upon

King County deputy sheriffs, who are creating a

great exodus of gypsies from this region, it

developed Monday.

Reports on file declared deputy sheriffs

escorted another band of the picturesque wanderers

over Snoqualmie Pass after ordering them to “pick up

and move on” from their encampment near North

Bend. A citizen had complained they were on his land.

Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff O. K. Bodia declared it was the fourth caravan of gypsies

escorted out of the county within the past few days.

People of Valley communities, who plan to

be away on vacations of a day or more are urged to

leave someone in charge of their homes, as looting by

these wanderers, who are prosperously dressed and

drive new, shiny cars, stops short of nothing and one

may return to find the major part of his valuables missing.

While fortune telling was once the

principal occupation of the gay and carefree gypsies, in

recent years this is only a secondary consideration, with

petty thievery their objective, wherever they go.

The Valley has also been visited with an

unusually large number of transients the past few weeks.

While some of these men are willing to work for a few

cents to buy enough to eat, many take the attitude that

the world owes them a living, and a number of

business places in every town have reported articles stolen

after such a visit.