Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — The Tramps. [ARTICLE]

The Tramps.

The tramp question is receiving a good, deal of attontion in the East, especially in* Massachusetts. There, detectives have boen associating with tho tramps for the purpose of determining as to what class the tramps belong. The reports are singularly unanimous on one point, that is, that the main body of the army of tramps is made of professional thieves. Occasionally one travels by himself, but they generally go in packsliko wolves. These bands are under the control of a chief who directs what the members are to do; who are to beg to-day and who tomorrow, and what places arc to be broken into. There is a well founded suspicion that the tramps have a general depot for stolen property in the western part of tha stale. —Prairie Farmer.