The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-16
TWO TRANIPS.
\ Brief sketch of Their Lives as Related to
Herald Reporter,


and HERALD reporter, in his desperation
visited the station honse where he found
officer Carter, the keeper, working on his
books. "Any newsP asked the reporter,
who was willing under the circumstances,
to take and slightly embellish-the word
magnify or eNaggerate might be more APP
propriate-almost anything that bore the
least resemblance TO an item. Nothing"
replied the officer, except that We have an
unusual number of "drunks" in and
tramps, that is all. The representa-
tive asked 10 see the trampS,
who were confined in one of the upper cells
When the officers opened the door to Les
him in he was greeted by number of
voices, some asking for whisky, others for
water tobacco, food, etc, They were
study as they lounged abont on the floor
some just recovering from their debauchet,
and others, glum looking fellows, In deep
study no doubt, getting up another string
of good resolutions. The trsmps were
TO all appearances painfully So
Der, and It is to be presumed,
that inasmuch as they Joined in the cry for
their whisky, that their soberness was due
alone 20 the want or necessary funds with
which to purchase the ardent. After ascer-
tanning the fact that the reporter had
neither whisky, cigars or tobacco, he finally
got them TO talking, and each gave a scrap
of his history, which is given in brief be-
low. Frank Hazen pretaced his story with
the remarkable statement that The was man
from Ohio, and before he could pro-
coed any further one of the DRINKS in the
cell staggered to his feet and remarked in
most emphatic manner, with a lot of pro-
fame trimmings thrown in, that ii was 4
downright falsehood For said he, if you
were from Ohio, you would be filling gov
eminent position Order was finally re-
tanned, and Hazen went on with his story;
He said that he was thirty-one years old
and was born in the town of Hamilton, in
the above named state, and fgood Chris
ttan parents, who have been long since
sleeping under the green sod in
the cemetery at that place.
When he died he was mere lad and his
guardian who was, to use his own express
sion, stalking temperance society and q
pillar in the church, a man who could drive
closer trade and ask the blessing with
more JUNCTION than any one he ever saw,
lerkcd him up and sent him to school at
Maysyille, kentcky, where he had relatives
and with whom lie boarded during his
brief stay there lie was expelled
from school for putting defunct
pig in the masters desk,
when he returned home. lie subsequently
attended school at Cleveland, Ohio. and
shaped his course for the practice of medi-
cine, and having secured his diploma at
twenty, the year following he came into
possession of some $4,000 worth Of proper
ty which he disposed of at about two-thirds
its value for ready cash when he went to
California, locating at Vallejo, where he
made very slight effort to practice
ms profession. He remained
there three years and dur
ing that time he became addicted to
gambling, lost large sums of money, and
when he left that place and located at Cedar
Rapids, Wisconsin, he carried away with
him not quite 5000, all that was left him.
Here he abandoned his profession and
STATED grocery, and in a few months he
was Hat broke without dollar or friend
suicide, and to drown his sorrows
he drank, and it was not long
afterward that he began to tramp from
place to place, stealing now and then a ride
on trains, living the life of an outcast. At
first he cndeayOred to get work but met
with so many rcbuifs where he thought he
ought to have had kind and encouraging
words, that he abandoned all hopes of ever
claiming himself and became an ayowed
tramp and vagabond, a wanderer upon the
face of the earth, without home,
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