Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — Surprise on Shelby Comer. [ARTICLE]

Surprise on Shelby Comer.

Arising in the early hours Sunday morning Shelby Comer, of north of town, going to his baseburner was greatly astonished, to say the least, to find that another man was lying behind it. Shelby shook the intruder, who mumbled something that was beyond Shelby, and he sent a telephone message to Dr. J. H. Hansson, the veterinary, thinking that the man wa3 either Swede or Dane—thus call-, ing to his assistance a man who could talk Une language. Dr. M. D. Gwin, who was _ making a call in the territory of the Comer place, stopped in to see the man and ascertained -that the poor fellow had his feet and - one . ear frozen. He was brought to town by the doctor and left in Dr. Hansson’s care.

Dr. Hansson learned' by talking to the man that he was a Norwegian who had been over -here but a short time. Also that the man suffered 'a sunstroke last summer from which he never entirely recovered, and appears to be in a dazed condition all the time. It seems the man, Who was Carl Oleson Schaw, worked for P. A. Paterson In Chicago, on a coal wagon, who Sent for him. stress on his brainwD'daofl|,2untSfl, ' He was turned out of a police station, in Chicago, being locked up because he had no “ place to sleep, and he wandered about, finally coming to Mr. Comer’s .place, which, had it not • been for the unlocked door, he would have perished from cold and hunger. He claims to be the son of a well-to-do shoe manufacturer in Christiana, Norway, and to be about 41 years of age. Dr. Hansson gave him plenty to eat and some good warm clothes, and Monday he was taken to Chicago. 1 His story is substantiated by the fact that he carries letters and credentials setting this forth.