| Show FATHER AND DAUGHTER LEAD LIVES DF TRAMPS girl and aged parent travel ng over country together seeking false mother and wife des moines la father and daugh ter tramps of the lowest order with a record of fifteen years together on the road were guests the other night in the city jail the man who gave his name as J J francis Is 74 years of age the girl Is 25 years old the couple were picked up in the railroad yards near west seventh street dont separate me from daugh ter the old man begged when he was taken into the jail seldom has she been out of my sight mary Is a good girl and would not leave me the girl refused to talk I 1 m just going to stay with my father until he dies she said laconically and then I 1 am going to vork this life Is killing me though we are on the go day after day the year round trav cling from the north to the south with not a break the police won t let us stay anywhere and we just have to keep on going francis finally got confidential with a newspaper reporter yes I 1 am a tramp nothing more nor less ive had a history just like every other man on the road I 1 don t generally tell anything about my past llop but if you want to hear and the police will let you talk to me a little while tell it to you fifteen years ago when mary was but 10 years old my wife ran away and left me I 1 was running at that time a small grocery store in cin cinnoti 0 up to that time my mar ried life had been happy my wife eloped with a close friend of mine he was a snake in the grass a rep tile well words can not express it he won the love of my wife from me and my daughter she left without leaving a note to explain her absence soon I 1 learned of the treachery of my friend I 1 sold my business I 1 took the money I 1 secured and with mv lit tie daughter took up the search for my wife for a time I 1 had sufficient money to take care of the little girl we gradually began to tramp from one place to another we have crossed the country north and south and east and west only twice have I 1 gained track of my wife and her lover once seven years ago I 1 learned she had been for a few months in los angeles cal she was gone when I 1 reached that city the other time I 1 was about two months behind her in akron ohio I 1 finally acquired the habit of tramping keep it up now until I 1 die or find the man who broke up my home my daughter refuses to leave me we have got so we do not care what happens to us |
