At the end of the trail, hiker finds jail

Nov. 2, 1908: A man walked from the West Coast to the East Coast and didn’t get a warm welcome, The Times reported under the headline “Jail Walker as Vagrant; Boston’s Way of Welcoming Man Who Tramps There From Long Beach.”

“Word comes from Boston that after having walked from Long Beach, adhering to a schedule of 17 miles a day, taking this means to reach a cattle steamer to take him to his home in England, Henry Stewart, aged 58 years, proud and penniless, was locked up there ... for vagrancy,” The Times said, adding: “When his story was told in court, he was discharged. He refused aid tendered him by officials. A water bottle and blanket is all the old man carried.”