Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-15
POLICE ROUT A
GANG OF HOBOES-
FOUR ARE CAUGHT
South Portland Man Fined for
Selling Nursery Stock
Without License

A case that was somewhat of q nov
city in Augusta municipal court cir
cles were heard by Judge Lancaster
Tuesday morning when one F. o. Boil
ton of South Portland was before the
court to. answer to a complaint which
was sworn out against him by c. A.
Jones of China and charged him with
soliciting the purchase of nursery
stock without license in violation of
Chapter 120 of the Public Laws Of
Maine for 1913, which relates to the
protection of trees and shrubs from
dangerous insects and diseases.
The respondent, who had been ar
rested Monday afternoon at Albion by
Deputy Sheriff Perley C. Thurston of
China, was represented by Melvin E.
SawtelIe CT Augusta and entered a
plea of guilty, whereupon the court
imposed a sentence of $40 and costs,
amounting to $21.15. 1t was the first
case of the kind that had been brought
before the Augusta court.
Another case which came before the
court Tuesday morning was that of
four noboes who had been rounded up
early that morning by the police down
by the Mile Rock on IL bank of
the Kennebec river for whi> y act the
police have the thanks of the people
in general whose homes are in the
vicinity of the Driving park, a favorite
rendezvous of the members of the ho-
DO fraternity.
Many complaints have been received
by City Marshal Colgan that tramps
were making their headquarters al
the park and that their frequent calls
for food at the houses nearby had be-
come a nuisance, in response TO which
that officer sent some of his men al
various hours of the night and or
several occasions to the park to look
UP the undesirables supposed to be
there, but although the stalls in the
enclosure We're carefully searched nc
| results were Forthcoming.
Tuesday morning however the Off
GERS made change in their tactics, the
change being that Deputy Marsha
| Choate and officers McCausland an6
| Witham took a stroll down the rail
road tracks just as the city clocks were
striking Z, and on arriving at the Mile
| Rock ran onto a bunch of seven no
boes who had come out of their bur
rows at the Driving park and made
| their way to the river where they hat
partaken of their breakfast and wer,
bLsily engaged in hanging out theil
washing for the day.
The arrival of the oliee was re sig
nal for the gang to scatter, but whil,
some of them showed themselves to b.
pretty good sprinters others did no
seem inclined to run, and one of th'
gang could not run had he been S,
| inclined, he being on clutches. The ne
! harvest was four out of the seven ant
| the three who made their escape hat
TO do some of the fastest running o
their lives. Their course lay up along
the track on the Driving park. witt
Deputy Marshal cheate in pursuit, AM
/ t is said that the deputy marshal mai
one Of the fastest quarter miles OF III
season.
When lined up in the courtroom tn
men answered to the names of Georg
Mcclellan of Marlboro, Mass, John Nc
Dcrmott of Hudson, Mass, Jane
Price of Brooklyn, y. Y, and JOSEPH
Dufalk of nowhere. OF the quartz
Price is no stranger in Augusta, hav
ing been committed TO Jail from her
on several occasions and at the time o
his arrest yesterday had only beel
out Of Jail n few days after having
served so days for drunkenness. A
the conclusion of their hearing tn
four We're sent up for 80 days eacl
as tramps.
The fact was brought out at tn
hearing that the gang had been rusti
eating at the Driving park for som
little time, having their sleeping apart
ments in the stalls, dining on tn
shore of the river by the Mile Rock
and lounging during the daytime i
the shady places along the bank b
the railroad track. 1t is thought tina
Tuesdays roundup will have a goo
effect in Kidding the section of hoboes
and it is the intention of City Marsha
Colgan to keep the place free of them