Lavarenne:

According to a newspaper clipping (attached), Thomas hopped on a freight train for free. It certainly doesn't seem worthy of a felony, but that's what it was considered in 1917. See section 1990 of the 1917 NYS Penal code starting at the bottom of p. 514 here -- http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d02427680o;vi...

Regards,
Linda