Mike O'Hearn Away From Home

A number of people came to Hobart on July 3, 1909, for the pre-Independence Day celebration. Among them was a young Chicago fellow about 16 or 17 years old. When the day's fun had finished and this young man wanted to catch the train back to Chicago, he discovered that he was eleven cents short of the price of his ticket.

Of all the people milling about the station, the one he happened to ask for the money was the ferocious Mike O'Hearn. What did Mike do? — break the young man's arm? Knock him down?

No. He gave him the money.

Sometime later Mike received a thank-you note from the young man, along with eleven cents in stamps.

I think that was the end of the story. It got cut off on my print-out because I wasn't printing the page for that story, but that's another story. But it does seem to back up my earlier speculation that Mike could be a perfectly decent guy away from home.

Source: "Favor Appreciated." Hobart Gazette 6 Aug. 1909.