Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Courier, May 5, 1911, p. 3. GIRL ESCAPES FROM GYPSY CAMP "Save me from them people," said a 16-year-old girl to Chief of Police Cooper at Columbus, Indiana, on entering police headquarters yesterday. The girl said she had escaped from a band of gypsies at Seymour, with whom she had been since her babyhood, and that the gypsies beat her and compelled her to steal. She said her name was Jessie Mayes, but that the gypsies had given her their name. She said she had no knowledge of her parents or of their whereabouts. An effort is being made to find a home for the girl.