Show FATHER AND DAUGHTER LEAD LIVES OF TRAMPS Girl and Aged Parent Traveling Over Country Together Seeking False Mother and Wife Des Moines IaFather and daughter daugh-ter tramps of tho lowest order with a record of fifteen years together on tho road wero guests tho other night in the city Jail The man who gavo his name as J J Francis is 74 years of age Tho girl Is 25 years old The couple were picked up In tho railroad yards near West Seventh street I Dont separate mo from my daughter daugh-ter the old man begged when ho was taken Into tho Jail Seldom has sho been out of my sight Mary Is a good girl and would not leave me Tho girl refused to talk Im Just going to stay with my father until ho dies sho said laconically and then I am going to work This life IB killing me though We aro on tho go day after day tho year round traveling trav-eling from the north to tho south with not a break The police wont let us stay anywhere and wo Just have to keep on going Francis finally got confidential with a newspaper reporter Yes I am a tramp nothing more nor less Ive hall a history Just like every other man on the road I dont generally tell anything about my past life but if you want to hear and tho police will let you talk to me a little while Ill tell It to you Fifteen years ago when Mary was but 10 years old my wife ran away aryl loft me I was running at that tlmo a small grocery store in Cincinnati Cin-cinnati 0 Up to that time my mar rled life had been happy My wife eloped with a close friend of mlno Ho was n snake in tho grass a reptile rep-tile well words can not express It Ho won tho lovo of my wife from mo and my daughter Sho left without leaving a noto tq explain her absenco Soon I learned of the trcachorr of my friend I sold my business I took tho money I secured and with my lit roTToiroiroT the daughter took up the search for my wife For a tlmo I had sufficient money to take care of the little girl Wo gradually began to tramp from ono place to another Wo hart 1 65 C = f l r tti r a I P I We Are On the Go Day After Day crossed the country north and south and east and west Only twico have I gained track of my wife and her lover Onco seven years ago I learned sho had been for a few months In Los Angeles Cal She was gone when I reached that city The other tlmo I was about two months behind her in Akron Ohio I finally acquired tho habit of tramping Ill keep It up now until I die or find the man who broke up my home My daughter refuses to leavo mo Wo have got so we do not care what happens to us |