Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Can This Be True ? [ARTICLE]

Can This Be True ?

Hebron People, A case of total dt pravity can be found on Long Ridge, Jasper county. of four persons in human form, consisting of father, daught* r, son-in-law and aq exoccupant of the poor house of Jasper county about 15 or f 8 years j old, all at whom occupy a tent made i of boards Set up jy shape, no floor | but the ground, and a nest in the end where they all lay together. An old stove in the middle is used to cook on, and the entire company surrounded it eating a pirce of ‘pancake. One of them had been j laying an old fiddle ann the 'old man was telling an Irish story over which they ail joined in a hearty laugh, happy, and, is the old saying is, rot clothes enough on them to wad a shotgun. They have been staying ah«ut the swamp since last summer. Such a case of depiavity can be seen not four miles from Hebron, as has been related by an eye witness. They had heen living in a trapper's shanty until they killed the cat and ai« ify and that *was more than lie could stand.