Aged Man Turned Over To Welfare Workers - 1922

WERNE

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Date: 5/7/2015 at 13:28:30

Dubuque Telegraph Herald, November 13, 1922

Aged Man Turned Over
to Welfare Workers
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Peter Werne, an aged German, arrested by a railroad special officer Monday night in the yards, was held in the city jail overnight and this morning turned over to the welfare authorities. Werne, quite deaf, hung around the yards, according to the officer’s testimony, and several times came near being struck buy passing trains. He occupied the time by picking up bits of coal for fuel.

In answer to questions, Werne told Magistrate Cunningham he has little money in a bank, and that he has no relatives here. The court ordered him taken before proper authorities with a view to inquiring into his status with relation to the necessity of a guardian.