Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1913 — “Laziest Man in Town” Goes Out for 60 Days [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“Laziest Man in Town” Goes Out for 60 Days

MILWAUKEE. Wls.—Described by Theodore Puls as being the laslest ij||jl in Milwaukee, Herman Braasch, a probationer for abandonment, was returned to the municipal court for alleged failure to work. - According to Mr. Puls, the department found a child of the man destitute upon a visit to his home. Because of illness it was necessary to remove Mrs. Braasch to the county hospital and she was not in court "We had to treat him like a special patient” said itr. Puls. "We had to take him by the hand and lead him to work, like taking a child to school. Whenever he had a payday, we had to collect his money and then go to his home the following day and ee-' cort him back to work.” According to Mr. Pnls,\the department became tired at sueh titorship

and the moment it permitted its vigilance to lax, Braasch did not go to work He was arrested for violating his probation. "All he does all day is to sit and think" said Mr. Puls. "He said to me one day, 'You don’t think that 1 do a lot of thinking, do your I told him to wake up.” Braasch was sentenced for six months in the bouse of correction to cultivate the "habit of working.”