The sun., 1896-12-09
TOWN RAIDED BY TRAMPS.
NEW RoCHELBB CoMPLETELY TER
RORIZED FOR HOURS.
Men and Women In-uitcd, stores Robbed
and Wrecked. Windows Broken, Houses
Invadcd and Things Turned Topsy-
Turvv Gsepernliv-dl,iv Four Arrs,t.

Bno YlllhHB OF NOW NOCneuo lot tne lhSL rev
weeks terrorizinR women and children and
giving the railroad hands and policemen of the
place endless amount OF trouble. Several
bold-ups have occurred on the outskirts OF the
village and poultry yards and barns have been
robbed until the villagers, who keep anything
of value on their places outside OF their houses
have been obliged to hire wRtchmen to protect
their premises at night.
Tho inability of the local police forco to
do anything with the tramps, and the prevailing
scare which their presence has given the village,
resulted in the hoboes making a bold attack on
the place on Monday night. For several hours
they practically owned the business section of
the village. Citizens flew before them, tho police
never arrived on the scene Of an outrage until
after the tramps had gone away, and 1t was only
when the main body of the lawbreakers, satisfied
with the nights sport, went back to their rem
devious, that four laRRards, who had become
separated from the others. were surrounded and
lugged Off to the lookup. One of the prisoners,
fortunately. was the leader OF the gang, and IL
is believed that his arrest will scatter the rest
and rid the village OF the worst nuisance IL has
had on its hands In many day.
The remarkable poldness of the tramps has
possibly been the result of the example set by
their leader, the man arrested on Monday night.
His name is James Gordon, and. according to
his own story he came from Albany is 2S years
u
calls having seen Gordon around in previous
years. and he says that it is his first visit to the
place. But a finer specimen of the genus hobo 1t
would be hard to tlnd anywhere % from Maine Main to
chest and shoulders OF giant. a scragny beard.
bleary eyes. raEGsd' dirty yS clothes; and ] voice
the village n dozen times. running around
tho streets insulting people and having things
pretty much his own way. When he has seen
anything outside OF store that he has wanted
has "kSn M Sa Egm ae
oaths and n series OF threats from the great
loafer Drunk Gorden has shown himself TO
and assnulting people he has stirred things up
considerably, and the police have been, on tho
is a big territory for six men to cover and Cor
don has always taken care to cut loose when
It was about s o'clock on Monday night that
Gordon and his gang came Into the village to
evidently made up their minds to have good
time as well as to make some profit out of their
abroad in the business section when the hoboes
appeared, but the wise ones. seeing that the
home. Some of the shop Keepers, hearing tho
riotous shouts Of the crowd and feeling that the
their shutters TO protect their windows. Others
took no precautions and suffered accordingly.
ranS ana his NIGHTS WORK was interestinS. sd He
didn't load up on he bad luuor his companions
had pIre alcohol was ms af1k ana s, when ne
full was found in his pocket. He began his ad:
S{ at me hs sfee Seh
was attending TO customer when Gordon.
wild-eyed and ragged, suddenly appeared before
him.
cont or I'll tear hell out er yer whole shop
made rush Tor the door. When he reached it
he found two grizzly forms on guard. They
ready for anything that turned up. Cohen,
half scared 10 death. rushed to the back of the
store and out of door leading into the hall.
Up stairs lives a:policeman. Cohen burst into
his apartments yelling:
"Help! help! the store is full of thieves"
Jumped up and demanded to know what was
Ltsten!' exclaimed Cohen excitedly.
The policeman listened, and what he heard
Colcn's store inside out There were sounds OF
chairs aud tables crashing. windows breaking.
sionsI shrek ike the w wall Of coyote &c TO iivea
things up. Suddenly the noise ceased, and
Reaching the hall door. they opened it softly
and peeped in. No one was in sight. but the
chairs and tables had been. turned over, a few
small nanes OF glass In the rear had been
s na shs in all sSh ho
minutes later was discovered limp and helpless
In shape. and then. after many cautious looks
up and down the street. remarked that he was
going home, and disappeared.
the clothing store of Benjamin Cohen, at 273
Main street. Cohen was in the back OF the store.
yell Of defiance ran out Cohen came up 10 the
front of the store. but couldn't tell what had
that tramp mad just stolen coat from him.
The towns full Of them, said the boy.
Don't tell on me. or they'll kill me-"
:, Cohen, instead OF chasing Gordon ran to Po-
lice Headquarters to report his loss. There he
were holding a consultation with Chief Tim
mems as to what it WAS best to do; Every five |
outrage by the tramps, and as all the policemen
IN town had already been sent on the trail of
TO do.
In the meantime Gordon was going merrily
Wells. in Home Park, he showed his foot |
tn opgh window and walked into the parlor
Mrs. Wells shreked loudly for help; Ter; her
two servants did likewise, and then the whole |
loudly for on help. es viii While &c Gordon amused himself
by smashing chairs. tables; and glassware IN the
Se @nnsd he and Wakea
down the road to the Huguenot Hotel which is
sleep aspt py chair in tme barroom GORDON woes
her MP with slap between tine shoulders and
demanded drink Mrs Nathan screamed with
"A drink, said Gordon: II and be quick about
Nat han, to avoid trouble, drew glass of beer
A" "To i he'll with i ''ii that" said Gordon gimme
Nathan. who is small but plucky. threw the
walked up to Gordon and told him to get out
Gordon didn't move fast enough TO suit the
saloon keeper. go Nathan grabbed him around
the knees and threw him out Of the door. Two
minutes later brick came sailing through the
Sl25 plate glass window of the hotel.
Nathan ran out and found Gordon in the
grasp OF POLICEMAN Terrell. who had been after
him for half an hour Nathan Joined in the
struggle, and the two men finally downed the
tramp. although not until he bad fought them
all over the road and bruised and ruffled them
up considerably.
In the mean time the rest Of the tramPs had
been having their share of the fun, and rob-
berries had been committed at Wcinsteins shoe
store and at I.ambdens dry goods store. The
tramps helped themselves to two dozen pairs of
rubbers and two silk waists in these places.
and. after fighting each other with the respec-
tive stocks, went away.
All OF this crowd got away. but three others,
who fingered like Gorden after the others had
gone. were arrested. They were Edward Bybee.
20 years old; of CiYcinnati; Fritz Miller. SO
years old OF Mt. Vernon and John Kenny, 20
years old. OF 3 I.aight street, this city.
Yesterday these men were Rrraigned before
Justice Lambden where they excused them
selves by saying that they had been drunk and
didn't know what they were doing. Gordon
said he wasn't respons ble. as he'd had over q