Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — CAUGHT A HOBO. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAUGHT A HOBO.

These Two Old Maids Don’t Need a. Man Around the Hquse. The village of North Rose, N. Y., was excited Monday when Mary Jane Hurleyj and her old maid sister, Sarah Ann Hur-; ley, tramped in from the country an unkempt tramp, around whose neck! was a rope, while his arms were bound; together behind his back. The hobo wastaken to Justice of the Peace Oakes, wboj was eating breakfast. He suspended thej meal to inquire into the cause of the tumult 'in front of his house; It 'appears that the tramp, who was wending his weary way from Port Glasgow to North Rose, stopped for the night in Hurley’s barn. The two old maids

live alone three miles from North tlose.l and do weaving for a living. They own! a farm of two acres, and keep a cow andl some chickens. Monday morning the tramp got up and began milking in a tomato can. He was seen by Mary, Jane, who was coming with a pail on the same errand. She sneaked up behind the tramp, pulled him over backward and held him fast until her sister, in answer to screams, came out to see what was going on. The tramp was tied securely, his] hands pinioned behind his back, while a, piece of clothesline was wrapped his neck, by which he was led to town by; Mary Jane, the other sister following* armed with a horsewhip to keep the pris-l oner in order. The tramp said he meant no harm in sleeping In Hurley’s barn nor in milking the cow. He claimed to be Patrick Flynn* a potter from Catskill, on his way to Ak-, ron. O'. The amazons insisted that Flynn< be made an example of. They shuddered to think how he might have burned up the barn. The tramp was charged with petit) larceny, disorderly conduct and vagrancy*

CAPTURING A HOBO.