Bio: Yates, Charles (insane man picked up - 19 Sept 1914)

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Surnames: Hewett, Schoengarth, Yates

----Source:  Neillsville Times (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.)  September 24, 1914

Yates, Charles (insane man picked up - 19 Sept 1914)

Last Saturday residents in the neighborhood of the mound north of town were alarmed by the strange actions of a man, who gave every indication of being demented.  He talked incoherently and was evidently insane.  Sheriff Hewett was telephoned for and he went up and took the man in custody.  He was examined before Judge Schoengarth as to his sanity and committed to the asylum at Mendota.  Nothing definite could be learned of the man as he was in a very serious mental condition, but from papers found on him, it is thought that his name is Chas. Yates and that he had been sent here from Minneapolis to work in the gravel pit near Columbia.