Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — Jewish Tramp Released From Penal Farm a Worker. [ARTICLE]

Jewish Tramp Released From Penal Farm a Worker.

A Jewish lad about twenty years of j age stopped in Rensselaer Sunday j night and on Monday morning startI ed out in search for Trustee Wood to .ask assistance in getting to Chicago, where he claims to live. He did not find the trustee in his office but when asked by Attorney Paikinson : f he j was willing to work replied that he was and he was soon placed to work t with a scrub brush on the woodwork l of the lawyer’s office. He proved his willingness to work by going about the task with a will and only letting ■ up a little while for a noon meal. He returned after dinner and scrubbed ! until time to catch an evening train for Chicago and during the afternoon became confidential and admitted that he had just completed a term in i the penal farm. He said that he had 1 fallen into had company and had gone wrong and that the penal farm was the result. He says once is eiiough and he wants to get back to Chicago, get on some decent clothes and look up “papa.” He spoke about meeting a well-known Jasperite at the penal farm and said that the aforesaid Jasperite is a sort of “straw boss” down there. About every person in Rensselaer will known without being told who the party is.