Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — “WEARY WAGGLES’S” STORY. [ARTICLE]

“WEARY WAGGLES’S” STORY.

How the Tramp Came To Sleep in the Astor Mansion. New York Special Nov. 23, There was an amusing side to tht arrest of the tramp who went tt sleep the other night in Mrs. Wtn, Astor's mansion. When “Wearj Waggles" was asked how he got intc the house, he said very soberlyi “Come to the door, and tht door was open and walked in, Didn’t do nothing, but came to tht kitchen and walked in. No one it the kitchen and walked through. Come to the stairs and didn’t see nt one. and. .talked .up.. .Didn’.t.. .di., nothing, but kept on. Kept oi climbing till I got up-stairs and wens to bed.” When asked by Justict Voorhis why he took the liberty o’ using Mrs. Astor’s house and bed the tramp replied: “Well, if I doei wrong, I suppose I must sufferdor it but th’-poor is got to sleep like th rich, and seein’ as bow I didn’t havi a bed for th’ night or th’ price of one I takes the liberty, dat’s all. See?' The judge fined him $5. The coroners’ inquests for Londoi show eighty deaths yearly fron hunger without counting personi who commit suicide in extremi want.