A GIPSY QUEEN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 837, 8 June 1910, Page 3

A GIPSY QUEEN.

A fcurious romance has come to light through the discovery in a gipsy camp near St. Louis, of a woman who was formerly Miss Jessie Key Habersham, daughter of Mr. S. W. Habersham, a wellknown wealthy Baltimore broker. Brought, up to a life of luxury, and given a'first-class education, Miss Habersham disappeared from Baltimoro immediately after hev. debut in society. . Her fiance, a naval officer, and her friends supposed her to be lost, the "Mail " says, and her father, after spending a fortune in vain efforts to find her, finally abandoned the search. "I learned some time ago," Mi'. 'Habersham informed a reporter ' lately, "that my daughter was married to the gipsy. king, Jolm' Mitchell. She writes' to me regularly/' The former Miss Habersham, now 25 years old, is a beautiful woman.. Seated in a tent near the 'River, Desperes, she told a St. Louis journalist, the history of her life. f I hated society," she said, "with its shams and restrictions. .-As a young girl I mot a gipsy band at Saratoga Springs. They fascinated me. I read all I could when I was a student at college on gipsy life and language. Seven years ago I ran away, travelling as a-governess to Europe, where 1 met a Hindu, who taught 1110 a great deal about the occult. Later 1 met" King John Mitchell. I married, and became queen. I help him to rule his little kingdom, and I am very happy." ' •