January 14, 1920, The Niagara Falls Gazette wrote that the gypsy woman made a practice of kidnapping girls and training them for the stage. As she got the children they became the Earl Sisters, of whom there were at one time eight...

and possibly up to 16

Lola Lea Parshall Earl, gypsy circus performer and serial kidnapper brought Little Pearl to Deadwood 1877 as a trapeze performer.