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From the Daily Evening Republican, April 10, 1889:

About 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, eight professional vagrants boarded the local freight train at the 7th Street depot just as it was moving out for Indianapolis. The crew discovered the tramps and put them off before the limits of the city was reached. Marshal Hagerty, who happened in the vicinity, discovered the fellows and at once proceeded to run them out of the city. He chased four of them up the Cambridge City branch when by discharging his revolver, he caused three of them to halt and throw up their hands. He reached them and after giving each a good caning, the vagrants moved off without delay. The four left behind nearly stripped themselves of their clothing in attempting to get over a barbed-wire fence when they heard the report of the revolver. The riddance is a good one.

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