A family of gypsies from the south of Turkey, near the Arabian border, camped by the roadside a few miles north of Council Bluffs Wednesday. Not one of them could speak English; and they had but $4 in cash. They had traveled all night in a rickety wagon and they stopped under some trees by the roadside and made a roaring bonfire to cook dinner. There was a father and a mother and three children, the youngest being a boy of 2 years. While playing about the roaring campfire the infant fell into the blaze and was frightfully burned. His flesh was literally cooked all over his body; when he was pulled out of the fire by his father.

The suffering child was brought stark naked to Council Bluffs, the outfit arriving here in the evening. The wagon stopped in front of Dr. Earl Bellinger's office on Broadway and the infant carried into the office. The doctor was no hope for the little patient's recovery, but he ordered removal to St. Bernard's Hospital where the child died Thursday night.

Burial was made yesterday at the county's expense from Graff's morgue. Neither the hospital attendants nor the authorities could learn the name of the family on account of their inability to speak English or any other language than their own tongue which was unintelligible to any linguist who could be found in Council Bluffs. There were no services whatever over the remains of the infant gypsy and burial was made in the Catholic Cemetery.

Although there were no burial ceremonies, fetish customs prevailed in arranging the body for interment.

A 25-cent piece was placed in the right hand and a small bit of peanut candy in the other. A Negro doll was laid on the child's breast and his head and upper part of the body was packed in the casket with pears, peaches, walnuts, pecans, cookies and ginger snaps and candy. A muskmelon was placed at the feet and a cluster of asters laid upon the body.

The sorrowing gypsies left for the west last evening immediately after the remains of the child were placed beneath the ground in the cemetery.