The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-24
WORKS BOTH Why's
THE RULE ABOUT RETURNING IN
SANE PAUPERS IS DOUBLE
ACTING,
IN SOME CASES, AT j,EAST.
BOARD OF CONTROL THINKS THAT
AGENT GATES HAS BECOME
CONFUSED.
IN SOME CASES, AT LEAST
TWO MEN ARE THE CAUSE OF 1T.
One Returned From Los angeles to
Ramsey County, the other IL
Fixture Here.

The members of the board of control
are laughing with sinister glee at State
Agent w. A. Gates, Of the state board
of corrections and charities. They say
Mr.. Gates has put himself in a hole at
his own expense. Two paupers have
caused all the trouble.
In 1894 Joseph Lepschi and his fam
lily, consisting of wife and four chill
dren, left Ramsey county, where they,
at that time, resided, and went to Los
Angeles, Cal. Within six months af-
ter their arrival in that city Mr.. Lep-
schi was committed to an insane asy-
lum, where he remained until the close
Of last winter. During his detention
at the asylum his family received aid
from the state in Los Angeles. AS one
years Independent residence is requir-
ed in California to secure settlement
in that state, the authorities of Los
Angeles declared that the Lepschi
family had no settlement there, mas
much as Lepschi had been an inmate of
an insane asylum during practically all
Of his residence there and his family
had lived upon the public. Accord
ingly the Los Angeles authorities sent
the Lepschi family back to st. Paul.
The board of control submitted this
case to the board Of charities and cor
rection. State Agent Gates cited the
new state law, which is the same as
that of California in that it requires
a residence of one year to gain a legal
settlement, from which must be de-
Quoted any time spent in any hospital
almshouse or other public institution,
or in receiving public aid. Therefore
the Lepschi family had not gained a
legal settlement in California, but still
belonged to Ramsey county.
The board Of control acquiesced in
this decision and will take care of the
Leipschi family, as residents of Ram
sey county, to which they have been
returned Mr.. Lepschi has been
transferred from California to the
Rochester asylum.
But the board has scored point on
State Agent Gates in a case where the
shoe seems to be on the other foot.
Here Pauper No. comes iu His
name is Gottlieb Rau.
Mr.. Rau, a crippled old man, to-
gether with his wife and son and SON
in-law came to st. Paul from st.
Thomas, Pembina county, N. D., in
1895. They applied to the board for
relief and the board refused relief be
cause the applicants were non-resi-
dents. The son, who preceded his par
erts, was quartered in st. Joseph's
hospital undergoing treatment for his
eyes The son-in-law assured the
board of control that he was going to
work for the Wood Harvester COM
pany in a few days, and wanted only
temporary relief, to support his faith
er-in-law. He got it, and then turned /
his father-in-law out of doors, so the /
members of the board Of control say. /
Since that time, beginning six weeks |
after their arrival in st. Paul. the |
board of control has provided for the /
support of Gotlied Rau and his wife. /
Therefore they have not secured
settlement in ST. Paul.
When this case was referred to State /
Agent Gates, accompanied by a state |
ment of the facts and dates. as re- /
lated. Mr.. Gates replies in letter, in
which he holds that Gottlieb Rau has |
obtained legal settlement in Ramsey |
county. Mr.. Gates comedies that Mr.. |
Rau received some aid, but not suffi- |
cieut to reduce his period Of residence
in Ramsey county to less than one
year.
In consequence, the board of control
wants to know what is the matter
with Mr.. Gates. The board took care
Of Mr. Rau, not because it was obliged