Mike or Mark Lee says he was Born in Illinois about 1883.
Fortune Telling Bunco's
Inmate: #7133 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy
Age: 42
Other convictions:
Wanted in San Luis Obispo County 19 July 1928 for grand Theft.
1 Sep 1930 Wanted by Berkeley Police Dept.
I found several newspaper clippings for his 1918 crime, looks like he and few others stole a wedding dowry.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712348/mike_lee/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712289/mike_lee/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712067/mike_lee/
Here are the Gypsy Ladies mentioned in his arrest.I just love their mugshots. Look at those braids.
Lenna Yuanna or Amelia Lee
Inmate: #7134 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
She was also wanted by Oakland Police for Grand Theft of $13,400
Says she is 25 and born in Austria and a housewife. Was she Mike's wife??? No idea...
I didn't find anything on any of these ladies.
Inmate: #7136 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 MAy 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
Age: 25
Mary Lee born in California about 1900
Housewife
Could she be Lenna's sister?? these ladies look like they could be related.
Inmate: #7135 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
Age 30
Rosie Milan born about 1895 Russia
Housewife
Gypsies — also known as Romany — began arriving in the U.S. from Romania toward the end of the 19th century. Experts believe there are now about 1 million in America, one-fifth of them in California, where they dominate the fortune telling and psychic shops in funky beach communities and other neighborhoods. Hungarian Slovak Gypsies immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century, many from (Sáros and Zemplén counties) Kassa, Hungary. They settled in the cities of Braddock, Homestead, Johnstown, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit and Delray, Michigan; Gary, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City. The Hungarian Slovak Gypsies were a community of settled Roma, and in the United States were well known for playing music for the Central European immigrant communities in which they settled. These Roma were known for playing in cafes and restaurants, the name associating these Romani as Bashaldé was made up in late 20th century, and in Hungary they are called Romungro Romani; portions of them were also known as Romungre. In the early 1900s the Roma in Braddock, Pennsylvania, purchased an entire block of homes, making them the largest population of settled Roma in the United States.
https://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Gypsy-Americans.html
Here's a link to Gypsy Immigration.
At this time in history girls were cutting their short in a bob, like the photo below.
Even though I didn't find anything else on these lovey Gypsies, I love their photos and I made them a tree so hopefully someone will know something so we can add more to their story.
When I was a kid in school I told fortunes too and didn't even know it...Remember these???
Fortune Telling Bunco's
Inmate: #7133 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy
Age: 42
Other convictions:
Wanted in San Luis Obispo County 19 July 1928 for grand Theft.
1 Sep 1930 Wanted by Berkeley Police Dept.
I found several newspaper clippings for his 1918 crime, looks like he and few others stole a wedding dowry.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712348/mike_lee/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712289/mike_lee/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41712067/mike_lee/
Here are the Gypsy Ladies mentioned in his arrest.I just love their mugshots. Look at those braids.
Lenna Yuanna or Amelia Lee
Inmate: #7134 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
She was also wanted by Oakland Police for Grand Theft of $13,400
Says she is 25 and born in Austria and a housewife. Was she Mike's wife??? No idea...
I didn't find anything on any of these ladies.
Inmate: #7136 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 MAy 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
Age: 25
Mary Lee born in California about 1900
Housewife
Could she be Lenna's sister?? these ladies look like they could be related.
Inmate: #7135 Portland, OR Jail
Arrested: 26 May 1925
Crime: Vagrancy 180 days suspended on 26 May 1925.
She was suspected of stealing money from a grocery store cash register.
Age 30
Rosie Milan born about 1895 Russia
Housewife
Gypsies — also known as Romany — began arriving in the U.S. from Romania toward the end of the 19th century. Experts believe there are now about 1 million in America, one-fifth of them in California, where they dominate the fortune telling and psychic shops in funky beach communities and other neighborhoods. Hungarian Slovak Gypsies immigrated to the United States in the late 19th century, many from (Sáros and Zemplén counties) Kassa, Hungary. They settled in the cities of Braddock, Homestead, Johnstown, and Uniontown, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit and Delray, Michigan; Gary, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City. The Hungarian Slovak Gypsies were a community of settled Roma, and in the United States were well known for playing music for the Central European immigrant communities in which they settled. These Roma were known for playing in cafes and restaurants, the name associating these Romani as Bashaldé was made up in late 20th century, and in Hungary they are called Romungro Romani; portions of them were also known as Romungre. In the early 1900s the Roma in Braddock, Pennsylvania, purchased an entire block of homes, making them the largest population of settled Roma in the United States.
https://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Gypsy-Americans.html
Here's a link to Gypsy Immigration.
At this time in history girls were cutting their short in a bob, like the photo below.
Even though I didn't find anything else on these lovey Gypsies, I love their photos and I made them a tree so hopefully someone will know something so we can add more to their story.
Yes they used crystal balls and cards but there is so much more to them, and not all gypsies were crooks.
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