The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-01
THE SOCIETY OF TRAMPs.
A Hard Looking Sextette RIM In
by the Police.

Vh luesday evening tie police ran in
four fellow on the charge OF vssrsncv
and yesterday succeeded. after a bard
chase, in capturing two more of the
same gang. who appeared to have heen
organized into 4 regular Society for the
Suppression of Cold Yicluals. and
approPriating anything else that thew
might be able to lay their hands an
me names given by the sextette are
Ed. Riley. Charles Conners. Jasnar
Logan, Z A. Ham, William Rogers
1honlas Richards. From the state
. .neIss Hade 70 a HERALD reporter yes
terday, by Richards. Who is a
young fellow about Il wears ~
age, whose parents live at Ana
Ecohda, Mont, il appears that the
gang Oh nine tramps arrived II,
TINS city n IN Ogden a couple OF three
DAYS ago, and siLce that time they
nave confined their begging Operators
10 the Seventeenth ana Nineteer,fb
wards, which they worked in verr
systematic system. hav ng visited q
great many houses. besides, striking
nearly everybody they met upon the
streets. The youth above referred TO
says that he met tine gang in Ogden ana
accompanied them To this CITY. where
they appointed him as general Solicitor.
PROBABLY thinki2g that his young ana
innocent appearance would have a
greater effect upon the hearts and
pockets OF susceptible citizens Tbev
Hould send the young fellow into :
house ana as soon as he returned In :
appropriated whatever might he given
MIN, the instructions being to ask for
money put 10 refuse nothing. The
youth aem .rredtO being made a catspaw
Oh ana iOr this act o. INSTRUMENTATION
ne received severe humping at the
hands OF one OF the gang. They also
had a scheme on hand whereby thew
were TO FASH as they expressed il.
the boy S arm, and send him on a beg
girg expedition with a mOurnful tale
ABOUT being an orphan and having been |
burned At the smelters south OF this
city The idea of the fellows in Joining
themselves together, it is said, was TO
RAISE enough funds to buy TWO or three !
kegs Of beer from the Fishery Brewerv
and with the add. ton OF few crackers /
and perhaps an egg or two, they were /
going to have glorious time on Mon /
day next in the willows down by the 7
Jordan River. Their schemes, however. /
were rudely shattered BY the arrests /
as detailed above. and it is more |
than probable that the remaining three
members OF the gang have taken
fright at the arrest Of their chums and
departed for chimes where policemen are
either not so numerous or cannot run
so fast.
Two of the fellows, Ed Riley and
Charles Connors, of the Associate n.
were arraigned before Judge Pyper /
yesterday afternoon. and after some /
hesitancy, entered a plea of guilty to /
the charge OF vagrancy preferred against 4
them. They were both sentenced to |
pay fine Of $50 or spend thirty DAYS in
jail, and in default u the amounts they
were given a room in the cooler. The
three others-Logan. Ham and Rogers
on being arraigned. plead not guilty,
and their cases went over until to-day.
No disposition has yet been made OF the
case OF the boy Richards.
The six fellows mentioned ABOVE.
with the exception, perhaps, Of the boy
are without doubt the 4
tougheSt-looking specimens Of the
genus tramp that ever faced the music
In the Police Court in Salt Lake They
were all dirty, ragged, and each cOun-
tenance held enough real estate to have
caused the levying Of tax. Different
portions Of their anatomy were plainly /
visible through the maRy holes in their