Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-10
Headed Off by Pittsburg officers
While on Their Way to the Free
and Boundless West
TO WIPE OUT THE NOBLE RED MAN.
Chasing Truant Boys Who Have Failed
to Learn That There is No Place q.
Like Home.
LITTLE TRAVELLERS WITH RECORDS.
Young Girl Who Soon 0vsrcsms Her Fear Of In
uriannmant

The troubles of the Pittsburg Police De-
partment are not wholly caused by the in
discreet actions of hardened criminals. The
rising generation adds its share toward
keeping the officers busy.
The geographical position of the Gas City
is unique. It lies on the high road from
the circumscribed and effete East to the
wide and boundless West. where the bar
barrie red man is rapidly ripening for the
small boy harvester with 50 revolver and
barlow knife:
Young America, after imbibing the prin-
ciples of freedom from the Fifth Reader in
the Third ward school of Hcboken, n. j.,
refuses TO allow parental restraint to curb
his bold spirits, and determines to add lus-
ter to the Stars and Stripes by hewing his
way to glory. Buccanneering having be-
come improbable, owing to the tariff, tele-
Eraph and revenue cutters, the aspirant for
fame turns his eyes toward the setting sun,
and in the reflection of the last rays OF that
glowing orb as it sinks beneath the waves
of the Pacific Ocean, sees himself mounted
a fiery mustang, chasing buffaloes and
Indians, and rescuing enough fair maidens
to start a successful seminary.
THEY WERE TIRED OF SOAP
The latest to arrive OF these young seekers
after fortune and fame, were Howard Wood
ruff and Isaac Johnston. Detectives Rob-
inson and Fitzgerald ran against them yes
terday. and after brief. but satisfactory,
cross-examinatiOn, placed them in the Cen
tral station. Howard is IA years old, and
is the son of wealthy soap manufacturer
~
and was employed in drying a wagon for
Woodruff
The boys were well provided for an ex-
tended sojouru on the prairies. They pos
Bessed an old-fashioned revolver which car
ried bullet about the size of a pea, and
which would doubtless prove fatal in the
hands of an expert marksmen, who was also
hrst-class anatomist. In addition to this
each carried knife and box of matches.
Simon, as the treasurer, clung to 81 bill,
while Howard assumed the position of sut-
Ter, and TO prevent any danger of starvation,
when buffalo were coy and game generally
scarce, carried So lunch ticket on a Pitts
burg restaurant. The ticket was not intact,
everal meals of pie having been punched
out Of it.
SPOTTED BEAR Is SAFE.
The friends Of the bows have been COM
municated with, and Spotted Bear and his
renegade allies will continue to scalp the
white dogs without let or hindrance.
Scarcely day passes that the Pittsburg
police are not notified to head of bov who
yearns for Lille on the plains. Last week one
youg fellow was pulled out of sIeeping-car
at the Union Station. He had unostenta-
tiously borrowed 500 from his father in
Jersey City, and was on his way to see the
world. He will have to wait awhile before
he rivals the Captain Cook act.
Detective Bendel has considerable ex-
perience in capturing boys. Most of them
are truants from the Morganza Reform
School. These BOYS do not complain of their
treatment; in fact, Officer Davy Hanna
thinks the runaways are treated better than
they care for. They want to get back to
their semi-nomad life-selling papers.
blacking shoes, pitching pennies sleeping
in dry-goods boxes, and generally enjoying
themselves, without restraint, in their own
peculiar way.
Detective Bendel has had some funny ex-
perlences in catching these ruuaways The
other day he went out to Bloomfield to cap
ture a refugee. The father of the boy had
engaged some private detectives to find the
boy, and they were at the house deploring
their lack of success when Bendel arrived.
TOO SMART FOR HIS FATHER
The latter walked through the house and
into the yard and there found the lad fast
asleep in an clubhouse. The private detec-
tiyes and the father were crestfallen, es-
pecially when the boy confessed that he had
been loaing around the premises for two
weeks, sleeping in the daytime and doing
business with his fathers larder at night
Another boy ran away from Morganza,
and climbing into a farmers wagon, as he
thought, unperceived, rode several miles.
Finally the farmer met three men, and asked
them if they wanted to make SO. This is
the regular reward for returning Morganza
refugee. This struck the boy as being ON
lnous, and, without waiting to hear tue re-
ply, jumped from the wagon and sped like
a startled deer across the country. He
reached home by avoiding highways, but
was soon returned TO the Reform School by
Detective Bendel.
Officer Hanna, who bas been a member of
the lorce for many years, has had consider
able experience with youthful travellers
He was acquainted with one bov who trav-
eed to Boston and back on a nickel and a
copy of THE DISPATCH. He could not
have needed the warnings contained in the
newspaper, as he afterwards landed in the
penitentiary for robbery.
BOY WITH A RECORD.
At one time Hanna took four members of
one family back to Morganza, from which
they escaped together. One of these bows,
George Glenn, afterward achieved a reputa-
ton Tor himself by terrorizing the hill dis
trict for over a year. During that time
Hanna gave up large portion of his time
to pursuing him, but Glenn was desperate
and feet OF foot and for long time escaped.
He was finally captured and sent to the
vorkhouse for two years.
Glenn got away from that institution, but
his freedom was dearly bought. He was
run down in Virgin alley by the assistant
superintendent OF the Workhouse. Glenn
refused to yield and was shot in the leg by
the official. The limb had to be amputated
and Glenn is now IN the penltentiary on one
leg.
A VERY CHEERFUL GIRL.
While girls are generally better behaved
than the boys, some of them are very bad,
and they soon get over their horror of a CELL
Little Annie Dagnall was arrested two
weeks ago for robbing q Butler county
blacksmith, to whom she sold a bottle of
whisky on Sunday. When she was ar
rested she wept bitterly and could not be
comforted.
Yesterday Annie was arrested again.
Cba mot fbrae LITTLE girls on Second avenue