Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-29
a WORLD OF TRAmPs.
The City ard Suburbs over-run With
Deadbeats and Thieves.


From almost every quarter of the
city there is reported much annoy
ance from tramps, large able bodied
men begging for something to eat.
The residences of Franklin, Main,
Madison and Commerce streets were
nearly all visited last night by such
characters asking, at the back doors,
for something to appease their nun
ger. A notable fact is that in almost
every instance the men are reported
well dressed, and of healthy appear
ance. The police were busy all last
night trying to catch some of them,
but they had poor success. Officer
Stone, however, ran up on three
near the freight depot last night and
locked them up. They had built
fire and were prepared to spend the
night in regular tramp fashion.
They are large, comparatively good
looking men and are well clothed.
In obedience to the many complaints
that have been made, the police be.
gan this morning making a vigorous
search for such characters and will
arrest all who cannot give satisfac-
tory explanation of their business
here.
VIM. Garrard, who manages s. B.
Seats farm on the Nashville pike
shot three times last night at bur
glars and thinks that he hit one OF
them, with one of the shots Mr..
Garrard's daughter, Miss Ollie, had
gone to her room for the purpose OF
retiring. She noticed that the win
dow shutters were not in the position
she had left them a few minutes
previous, and when she went to eX
anime them she saw man standing
on the outside. She screamed for
her father who arrived on the scene
in time to see two men beating
hasty retreat, He opened fire on
them and at the second shot one Of
the men raised a yell, as if the shot
had taken effect. A strange thing
about this affair is that shortly after
the men had left the premises a dog
was seen trailing around the house
I1n ut hn
where the men were when Mr.. Gar
rard fired the last shot he
sent up several pitiful howls and left
on the trail. Mr.. Garrard'S wife and
daughter were very much frightened
by the affair and would not hear to
him pursuing the men far from the
house.
This is the only instance in which
any of the deadbeats have been fired
on, but there are dozens of cases re-
ported where they were ordered of
premises.
The men who are committing these
nuisances are class that usually fol-
low up the turf events and make
what they can out of the crowds
with which they come in contact
II they fail TO make living at their
various rObbing fakes they will
either beg or steal and it makes very
little difference to them which they
do. There seems to be more of them
at the fair grounds in the day time
than was ever noticed before and at
night they swoop down on the city
and suburbs and get what they can
by begging and thieving.
II, 0. Hamburger, Of New PrOvi-
dence, left his wife at home last
night and went to sit up awhile with
his father. He had not been gone
long before a rap was heard at the
door. Mrs. Hamburger asked who
it was. No answer came, but when
the lady told him, whoever he was,
to leave or she would shoot him
through the door he made tracks. 1t
was subsequently learned that it was
a tramp wanting something to eat.
A pair of the same stripe visited |
the residence of Ed. Pettu3 and il
took everybody on the place to keep |
a large mastiff from killing one of
them. This place will not be bother
ed again. They nave told it abroad. |