Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — The Vagabond Act [ARTICLE]

The Vagabond Act

* ,1 The passage of what is known as the suspected felon act will do much toward ridding ali the cities and towns of the state of their gamblers and thieves.. In brief the provisions of the law detine vagrancy, a gambler, a professional gambler, a pigeon dropper, a pros-; litute and a pimp. It authorizes arrest by police or peace officers without warrant, and tines a vagrant not exceeding $10; fines a gambler or professional gambler not less than. $25, or over $100; titles a pigeon dropper not less than SSO, or over $200; fines a prostitute not less than $5, nor over slot>; fines a pimp not less than*slo, nor over $1*00; authorizes searches of suspected buildings, and arrest of inmates and gives untyors and justice* jurisdiction; ! convicts may l»e required to work, on street a at 50 cents per day; if they refuse to work* may he kept on bread and water until "they do work.— Warsaw Northern Jndianian. 1 »• Last week Wednesday, a German family at Michigan City by the n«ne of Miller lost Ijho children; they - were iwrnfr and jnsi seven years old to a day. One was .born at one o’clock and the other at three in the morning. The one that was born first died first and at qqe o’clock. The one dying first bade the other good-bye and died, and in just two hours the other was dead -*-La Porte Argun. ?*• ; " 1 T- - " ~t . j Dogs have been, making havoc |qiDDg,,t|iu eltcep ip, tybipf cqanjy. 'X'.'--- r .... _ . " . - ‘