Show TAKEN TAKU BY TRAMPS BUYS ENTICED PROM THEIR HOME BY I 1 11 ads mt ont as lart artt y taken into custo custodia dir ruil bull strange Frisa ild which Ill ilch will result in break cllrk ing ahe ih lam br ND tat special to chicago ra j journal 0 u r n a I 1 bour ou r tramp trampa a were ere nr or D I 1 Z rested in a box cir c ir at the andalia rj V round house in eluding t two boys boy at the police pollee st sti tion the men ro as john bennett and NN alk cr or stephens of G grand rand rapids one of the boys v as cl clarr altred cd bv by bennett as his 1 so I 1 and the other by stephens as his brother but the sequel showed they were lying bupt cassidy became satisfied from what he haw and heard that the bova bos coul chuh I 1 tell something interesting it they the were go so dispose 1 and at it the firt op it 1 took them into his pl pi p i l vite kite office and anti quizzed them at first the tile stink to the story told by their older companions compan lona but finall finally broko broke down and confessed ed that they ft ere under rec restraint on account of fear of b being c killed b by the hoboes being assured of protection they wen on and anti told that they had been enticed ariy from home b the crimps ant an 1 f tor 0 r months held in subjection b by of punishment and death the gave gate their right names and addresses as george e 11 meredith credith manchester ia a just across he the riar from richmond and dock gret gref of paducah K meredith Is 12 N ears old and the son of gus meredith a carpenter and gret Is 13 year eara 3 old and the son of frink gref a pa per hanger meredith INI c r edith a etory tory a was a a the more intel esting of the two to ani covered the experiences of both bos boys who ho are bright good lofving young chapa chaps and a n d speak 8 pc a it with a strong southern accent young meredith said that three or four months ago he fell in nith bell nett who wears a peg leg on account 0 of tic loss of a fco and 1 Is known to the fraternity aa as fort peg and his comi lattion stephens whose hobo nama namo la Is virginia slim through a mutual acquaintance known ow n as bunion bullion bunow I 1 ulio was a manchester boy bo and was has enticed aay avay and into tramp life b by dennett bennett tho the party pictured things thing ur bright to the boy and induced him to ai aL company them he had not been with ith them long however before he lie discover td d what nhat they wanted anted of him he ile was as sent out to beg with i 1 card on his breast setting spitting forth tho the crippled condition of his father tha tho work nii N ii 14 iary distasteful to him ho he said and anti he would have hane liked to quit it and go home but the hoboes kept close witch aitch on him and threatened him with punishment and death it if ho he a attempted to desert them he lie was ery I 1 successful in securing money and said that 13 ennett and an d stephens had lota lots of it A a ing gref joined the pirty at paducah ducach where he got acquainted with the meredith boy through a fight tho the latter had with a negro and was induced in the same way meredith had been to remain with them he lie had no not done any begging yet et but would havo have been put at it before long doth both boi boy 8 expressed themselves iles as anxious to go home and appeared to be greatly relieved to find themselves in the hands of friends merediths statement ronce concerning ming bennett 8 money was aa followed up lip by supt bupt cassedy the boy told him the mer had several hundred dollars in addition to the 33 found on their persons when arrested and that the most of it had been begged by him he ile said bennett carried the monc mone and had it concealed in the lapel or nia 1 coat or somewhere about hia his wooden leg hennett was accordingly searched and the I 1 PCS leg was examined closely but the money could not be found Satis satisfied fled that the boy told the truth the chief resorted to strategy with the most gratifying he lie ordered the th tramps locked up and told the officer to throw tha the wooden leg in tho the stove ala burn it up this brought dennett bennett to time he lie un unscrewed screed some holta took tol tie tl e wooden leg apart and dia asod to supt bupt cassidy s eager caze a loll 1011 of bills amounting to of this bennett said bald lao belonged to him and to stephens phena supt bupt cassidy caddy thinks it belongs to the one vital vho begged it and anti will en endeavor deaNor to hive bite it m over er to the boy bos s the parents of the boys hive been notified that the arc are bere rere and me antime the whole hole party v ill be detained |