Widow Magee and the Three Gypsies; A Vermont Fandango

Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Highland with another true story of crime. Listen. That was Aaron Leather's demonstrating a broom. A broom he had made with his own hands. Aaron was a gypsy and he knew the broom making secret handed down from the master broomers of Romany.

Demonstration. The floor of Mrs. McGee's parlor in her cottage right outside of Rutland, Vermont in the year After 1850, Anne Aron was very proud of his handiwork watch. Oh, watch. Oh, he's a woman to a doll through the window, Anne.

It's dressed like a gypsy, and it's heads all twisted like it was dead. And see, it looks like you, Aron. Tonight, I may report to you on Whittle McGee and the Three Gypsies, a Vermont Fandango, Crime classics. A series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time. Your host each week, Mr. Thomas Highland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence,

and teller of murders. Once again, Mr. Thomas Highland. Not very many people migrate from Karga, Egypt to Vermont, but the leather's family did by way of Budapest. Of course it took a few hundred years to get from one place to the other, but the leather's family was gypsy and they had time on their hands. So they migrated. They

finally arrived in 1815 and they found the country good, lakes and mountains and a good source of fine New England straw, with which to weave their baskets and make their brooms. And by the time mid-century rolled around, the pride and joy of the tribe were three cousins.

I'm even. I weave baskets, and I wear a gold ring in my ear. I like to eat, and I like to walk in the sun. I'm Aaron. Brooms are my specialty, and I wear gold rings in both my ears.