JOSIAH FLYNT.NOTES OF AN
ITINERANT
POLICEMAN
By
JOSIAH FLYNT
AUTHOR OF "TRAMPING WITH TRAMPS"
BOSTON
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
MDCCCC
Copyright, 1900
By L. C. Page & Company
INSCRIBED
TO
WILLARD ROPES TRASK
CONTENTS
| NOTE. |
| INTRODUCTORY. |
| CHAPTER I. |
| CHAPTER II. |
| CHAPTER III. |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| CHAPTER V. |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| CHAPTER VIII. |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| CHAPTER X. |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| CHAPTER XII. |
NOTE.
A number of the chapters in this book have appeared as separate papersin the Independent, Harper's Weekly, the Critic, Munsey'sMagazine, and in publications connected with McClure's Syndicate; butmuch of the material is new, and all of the articles have been revisedbefore being republished.
INTRODUCTORY.
For a number of years it had been a wish of mine to have an experienceas a police officer, to come in contact with tramps and criminals, as arepresentative of the law. Not that I bore these people any personalgrudge, or desired to carry out any pet policy in dealing with them; butI had learned to know them pretty intimately as companions inlodging-houses and at camp-fires, and had observed them rather carefullyas prisoners in jails, and I was anxious to supplement this knowledge ofthem with an inquiry in regard to the impression they make on the manwhose business it is to keep an official watch over them while they arein the open. I desired also to learn more concerning the professionaloffender than it had been possible for me to find about him in tramplife. If one has the