Common Conflicts - Of Hobos & Buried Legs

This episode traces several 1889 newspaper excerpts detailing criminal and unusual incidents in Kansas. The primary focus is a series of events in Burrton involving "tramps" and train-men, escalating from a fight and shots exchanged to a serious incident where a passenger was nearly killed by a bullet fired into the train. Subsequent reports track the arrests and sentencing of those involved, highlighting the widespread "complaint along the line on account of tramps."

Additionally, this episode includes a humorous anecdote from Sedgwick about a misidentified human leg, and a separate account of an assault with a deadly weapon case in Sedgwick, demonstrating the variety of local news our ancestors would have been reading in 1889.

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