The herald., 1895-01-15
Joe Mulhatton Appears as an
Amateur. Tramp.
He Declares Southern Pacific EN-
plOyees Are Killing HobOs,
xta Says He Has Found n Bonanza Gold
Rhinestone of the Tramp Killing
That He DeScribess

''I am Mr.. Joe Mulhatton," he said
as he came into the HERALDs local
room last night. 81 don't look like
myself, il il true, for L have bssn
amuuing myself by travelling SIS tramp,
aDd 1 have had lots Of fan. l nave
plenty OF money anG can ride in Pail
mans il want 70.
They call ms the champion liar.
you know, but shas is because L an &
humoriet, but that is known.
Il just COS il today and nave called
On my old friend COL. Tom Lswie, the
egaiatans poltmalter-geReFsl; MI. w. /.
Coaby tho millionaire, aad ethsr cale-
3rtiea.
"You know Of mo, OF course, az 3
Newspaper correspondent ana rs the
drummers' candidate for president il
1892, with Grover Cleveland, Benjamin
Harriaon and Belva Look wood. lam ever
ready to benefit and assist all sirug-
CLING humeaity in sheie endeavor TO
resGh higher life"
The gentleman certainly had an ex-
cellent makeup as tramp for when
he Cslled. he reporter he talked to
began to think where ne eould borrow
quarter for him. He waa nosked,
though, but that was an eagy job for
the rein TO do 40 his clothes we're not
devoid OF rents, and he woio no over
coat or umbrella. He WAS Mr.. Mulhat-
ton, indeed, and no deserves this high
est credit for HE makeup ability.
This ia what tho traveller said:
II oamo down over the Southern Pa
c6c railroad Yesterday and
WAS surprised beyond all MEASURE st the
terrible iudignigie1 and atrocities per.
petrated upon the poor ignorant, unso-
phistcated hobos who compose the
great ranks of the army Of dissatisfied
poor unemployed workingmen Of the
United Statss, who. although O little
bit down and somewhat discouraged in
the future outlook Tor life, are not emit
tied TO be murdered by the Southern
Pacific Railroad company or their en-
ployees, which ia practically the same
thing.
IL came down over the road in the
Disguise Of hobo. / had plenty of
money for the occasion with me and
roughed it according TO Hoyle or any
other fellow, and ! am an eye witness OF
the terrible outrages psrpetTated upon
the hobo travellers along the line. Near
Mohawk Summit on January lat a
brakeman threw 81 hobo eff the train
when it was running 20 piles an hour
or more. He was poor honest Rus
sian Jew. l helped bury MIN. He and
several othera were trying 20 leave Cali
fcrnia for iairer fields, as they supposed,
in the east.
Zone other man, a former book
keeper for Sc. Louis firm, was kicked
il the jaw by an inhuman brakeman,
and 80 il goes. The Southern Pacific is
no reapecter Of persons, and they seem
to instruct their employees to abuse all
the poor meh wnom they find trying to
get to their frieuds or toward home and
happinesa, and yet who are without
means apparently.
There have been three murders com.
United between Mohawk Summit and
Salton station that l know of: Two old
German mon without money, aud one
Swede named Peter Johnston or Jonson,
as be gave it to me, all murdered by
being thrown from the traine.
''Is this Christian, enlightened age,
or arc we wading through the relics of
barbarisum ?''
The only weak point in Mr.. Mulhat-
toms narrative is his failure TO explain
how he escaped the bloodthirsty attacks
of the bold, bad brakemsn. ThiA is,
however, only an oversight, for no one
who knows the gentleman will doubt
Tor momant his ability to explain that
phenomenon, or any othsr, ior that
matter.