The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-13
POLICE TO MAKE
ROUND OF TOWN
HANGERS-ON HAVE INTER
VIEW WITH CHIEF
LOOKING UP STATUTE
Females Who Are Not Working
Also Included In Pro-
scribed List

Mayor w. A. Beach has come TO
the conclusion that men and wo-
men who have been loitering~a about
this city for several months past
day and night without any visible
means of support, will have to give
an account of themselves or move
on.
With this end In view Mayor
Beach held a conference yesterday
afternoon with Judge Hiram s.
Goff, City Attorney C. e. Gilmore
and Chief of Police Phil Landmark
at the office of the chief. Ordinance
No. 81, which defines vagrancy and
provides for its punishment was
thoroughly gone over, and at the
conclusion of the conference, Chief
Landmark was instructed by Mayor
Beach to bring in all persons who
have been idling aboht the streets
and lettering about the soft drink
an account as to the source of their
income.
What the Ordinance Provides
Section, l of Ordinance 81 of the
city of Mankato defines a vagrant
to be male or female person found
within the city of Mankato lettering
about saloons, taverns, dramshops,
or wandering about the streets,
either by day or night, or lodging
in barns, sheds or railway cars, and
not having any place of residence
or any visible means of support and
not being able and willing to give
any satisfactory account of herself
hinanlf
who is found to have in his or her
possession any instrument or thing
used or calculated to be used in
committing a burglary or larceny
or any crime whatever, or who is an
habitual or notorious gambler, or
who stands or loiters about the
streets, waiting and seeking to OBJ
tain money or other valuable things
from others by fraud, or to aid or
assist therein shall be considered a
VACANT.
All such persons found lettering
about soft drink parlors, about the
streets, hotels, etc, without being
able to give some satisfactory ac-
count OF himself or herself, and all
persons known to be thieves ETC.,
will be classed as Migrants.
The punishment for vagrancy &C.
COTulHS 10 tnlS ordnance IS fine
not to exceed one hundred dollars
and Imprisonment in the county
jail not to exceed ninety days.
Authority For Police
Section 8 of this ordinance pro-
vides for authority of the chief of
police to order all persons so
proven out of town, and any person
SO warned who does not comply with
the request of the police depart
ment, shall be taken before the mu-
nfcipal court, and unless he can
prove satisfactorily that he has
some visible and honest means of
support he or she will be punished
as a vagrant.
Mayor Beach was very outspoken
in his displeasure at the fact that
number OF men in this city have
been lettering about the pool halls
and soft drink parlors for over a
year past, day and night without
any visible means of support. He
said that it was high time that
these men should be brought to ac-
count, and be forced to give salts
factory explanation as to the source
of their income.
Less than a half hour after the
conference, Chief of Police Lund-
mark brought one man in on the
carpet and gave him notice that he
would have to leave town. The
fellow promised to make himself
scare this afternoon.