Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — CAUGHT A HOBO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAUGHT A HOBO.

These Two Old Maids Don't Need a Man Around the House, The village of North Rose, N. Y„ was excited Monday when Mary Jane Hurley and her old maid sister, Sarah Ann Hurley, tramped in from the country leading an unkempt tramp, around whose neck was a rope, while his arms were bound together behind his back. The hobo was taken to Justice of the Peace Oakes, who was eating breakfast. He suspended the meal to inquire into the cause of the tumult in front of his house. It appears that the tramp, who was wending his weary way from Port Glasgow to North Rose, stopped for the night in Hurley's barn. The two old maids

live alone three miles from North Rose, and do weaving for a living. They own a farm of two acres, and keep a cow and some chickens. Monday morning the tramp got up and began milking the cow in a tomato can. He was seen by Mary Jane, who was coming with a pail on the same errand. She sneaked up behind the tramp, pulled him over backward and held him fast until her sister, in answer to screams, came out to see what wgs going on. The tramp was tied securely, his hands pinioned behind his back, while a piece of clothesline was wrapped around his neck, by which he was led to town byMary Jane, the other sister following, armed with a horsewhip to keep the prisoner in order. The tramp said he meant no harm in sleeping in Hurley’s barn nor in milking the cow. He claimed to be Patrick Flynn, a potter from Catskill, on his way to Akron, O. The amazons insisted that Flynn be made an example of. They shuddered to think how he might have burned up the barn. The tramp was charged with petit larceny, disorderly conduct and vagrancy.

CAPTURING A HOBO.