CHAPTER XVIII 144-150

Convict life in the salt mines--A Roumanian Jack Sheppard--The trick that laid him low--Procedure in murder cases--The reconstruction of the crime--Scant justice for servants; no Habeas Corpus Act in Roumania--A man whose face was the only evidence against him--Gipsies and the building trade; the men act as masons and bricklayers, the women as their labourers--Exhibition of new clothes when a roof is put on--Fiddling ragamuffins--Gipsies as musicians--Guarding against gipsies in the Carpathians.