Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1912 — Hoboes Starve in Prison. [ARTICLE]

Hoboes Starve in Prison.

Metuchen, N. J. —Three men who dropped off a freight train here and asked for a place to sleep were hauled out of the town lockup a few days later in a state of collapse from cold and starvation. They had been completely forgotten after having been lodged in the jail, in an out-of-the-way part of the village. Groans heard by a passerby led to an investigation. After being thawed out and cared for, they took the first train out of town.