Round Up Aims to Stop Hoboes Riding Trains
Detectives of the Big Four Railroad Company aided by local officers arrest 24 hoboes on trains passing through here Wednesday night in a bid to curb the practice. Authorities frame hoboes as a public safety menace in the locality.
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BIG Four Railroad Company
Clem Stockmyer
Spruce Street
Indianapolis
Richard Jarvis
Greenlee Street
St. Louis
George Gasman
Northwestern Avenue
Harold M. Davey
South 9Th Street
Terre Haute
Charles Douglas
Division Street
A. K. Sproul
Sixth Avenue
Ivorydale
Mark Robbins
J. W. Brim
Mattoon, Ill
C. W. Waite
Anderson
John Romine
Edward Cline
James Robbins
Knights of the road rounded up by Big Four detectives
Thirteen Big Four detectives and local officers swept the yards from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., arresting twenty four hoboes riding trains. Seventeen fined three dollars. others jailed for thirteen days at the state farm or released on promise to pay. A second act showed arraignments in the council chamber with all pleading guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Farm
Joe Beemer
Pittsburg
John Gains
Louisville
James Cole
Indianapolis
Joseph Frank
New York City
Joe Myers
Brooklyn
N. Y
Richard Fisher
Levie Berry
East St. Louis
Foster Locks
Irwin Watson
Henderson
John Groves
Will Mann
Hot Springs
Ark
Martin McNeeley
Frank Field
Earl Simms
Tom Miles
William Lowden
Charles McBride
Linton
Ind
Council Chamber
Presbyterian church names committee to build a manse
The church selects Andrew Black W. W. Jones Eugene Schmidt and the Rev. Thomas Younger to oversee creating a parsonage on College Avenue. Initial funds exceed 5000 dollars with 2000 from Mrs. Williamson and 1500 from the old parsonage sale. First they redecorate the interior then plan the manse construction. W. E. Osborn Philadelphia Life and Trust representative visited local agent C. B. Kendall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Presbyterian Church
Andrew Black
W. W. Jones
Eugene Schmidt
Thomas Younger
College Avenue
Williamson
Alleged Yege in Custody Under Probe
Charles McBride of Linton, a suspected professional crook, captured on a freight train by Big Four detective Wednesday night. He is believed wanted in many places and has been jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McBride
Linton, Inc
BIG Four
Wednesday
Burglar on Big Four Trains Captured in City
Charles McBride of Linton Indiana a suspected professional crook arrested after riding trains with a revolver and burglar outfit. He was captured by Detective J W Brim near the Rockville road and arraigned on carrying concealed weapons with potential additional charges for unlawfully riding trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McBride
Linton
Ind
McBride
J. W. Brim
Mattoon
Rockville Road
Brim
Walter Cooper
Ladies of East Presbyterian to Meet at Mrs Browning’s Home
The ladies of the east section of the Presbyterian church will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Otis Browning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Presbyterian Church
Otis Browning
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