Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1916 — YOUTHFUL TRAMPS APPREHENDED HERE [ARTICLE]

YOUTHFUL TRAMPS APPREHENDED HERE

Truant Officer Steward Grabs Three Chicago Lads and Locates Their Parents By Phone.

Three Chicago lads, namely, Clarence Kreitling, 622 East 92nd Place; Russell Artist, 531 East 87th Place, and Harold Duggin, 8539 Maryalnd avenue, were taken to jail this Friday morning after they had been apprehended by Truant Officer Steward. After making various false statements one of the boys coughed up the tnith and Mr. Steward used the telephone effectively to locate their parents and learn that the youths had skipped out from their homes Thursday afternoon and that the distracted parents had instituted a search for them in the city. The boys are only 12 or 13 years of age. Mr. Steward found them this morning at 5 o’clock hovered about a small camp fire they had started near the Grant-Wiarner lumber yard. -They were very cold, the night air having oeen too much for their fire to dispel. They were taken into the office of the lurriber yard, where T. W. Grant had started a fire and then Mr. Steward brought them down town and took them to the court house. The boys -laimed they were brothers and had been visiting relatives in Chicago and were on their way to their home at Louis-, ville. They later said that two were brothers and the other a cousin. They were badly frightened and after they were taken to the court house they watched their chance and slipped out. Mr. Steward procured Harry Gallagher’s services and in an automobile they made a search and located the lads but they again tried to escape but were finally rounded up as they were beating it up the railroad track. They claimed that they had only 5 cents when they started out, but a search disclosed that the Kreitling boy had $27 in his pockets and he admitted that he had taken sl7 of this from his mother!® purse. Authority came from Chicago to hold the boys until some one came after them and it is expected they wilt come on the evening train and take the spring-tempted tenderfoots back to the city and reinstate them in school, all being seventh graders.