Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1914 — Hoboes Branded, Then “Paddled” With Staves. [ARTICLE]

Hoboes Branded, Then “Paddled” With Staves.

IVrt Wayne, Ind., May 19.-A ly. rounded up •«>««« two vagrants in the railroad yards early today, branded each man l by clipping a furrow through hrs nair with a pair df horse clippers, ordered them oht of town and as they ran, peddled” each hobo with a The vagrants were told that if captured before the clipped hair grew out, they wouid be sent to the stone pile for one hundred days.