Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-05
MEXICAN YOUTH
WAS HOME-SICk
EusE5lo sERRAso WAS NOT IN.
SANE BUT YEARNED 70 RE-
TURN TO MOTHER.
TELLS HIS STORY.
Mrs. r. B. Heseman Acts As Interpre
tor and LEARNS Source Of Boys
Sorrow That 10 Mltaken for
Insanity.

The desire to again see his dear old
mother and father in far-off Mexico,
and his inability to make others under
stand just what he wanted was respon-
sible for Eusebio Serbaso, q Mexican
youth Of less than 20 years, to be hail
ed from his place of temporary resi-
dence In Eldon and brought by Mar
shall w. P. Illman to the court house in
Ottumwa. Saturday. Perhaps no hap
pier man existed In Otumwa Saturday
than this dusky youth whose supposed
insanity was nothing more than q bit
Of real nature-longing for his mother,
from whom he had been separated by
the promise of untold wealth in the
United States IL he would but 60 after
it. This happiness would not have been
made possible had not fairy god
mother in the person OF Mrs. f. b.
Hegeman, caretaker Of the Country
club, appeared on the scene and learn
ed the sorrow that was running the
reason Of the lad from the land OF
mangoes.
Thought Insane.
Eusebio Serbaso was brought to OF
tumwa by Marshal Altman upon the
complaint Of Eldun citizens, who asked
the official to bring the supposedly in
sane Mexican youth here, where he
might be examined as to his sanity.
Eusebio Serbaso has been employed
wl.A other Mexicans on the Rock Is
land railroad at Eldon and lived in the
latter place with his sister and broth
er-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Pedro Herrara.
His actions within the past week have
been suspicious and excited much COM
ment because OF their queerness. At
times he seemed quite insane and wan
dered about apparently unconscious OF
his surroundings. A day or two ago
he wandered into q house in the neigh.
borhood where he stopped and al
though offering no violence badly
frightened women and children.
Yearned for Mother.
He was generally thought to be OF
Insound mind and would have been
examined by the board of commissions.
ers for the insane and probably taken
to Mount Pleasant, had not the serv-
Ices Of Mrs. Hegeman been brought
into the case When they met 1t was
but q few minutes until the two were
rnnVNrR1n0 nIoAHAntIv
Ton vna ~ the MaYican and the face al
the youth tnolr on 4 change from the
frirhtened child ia that nj the intellf.
gent and trusting youth, and ere the
Conversation clnsed Il WAS easily ap.4
narent that the, how was not insane.
hut yearning for his aged mother and
father in Jacualco de Torres. Estado
de .Talisco. Mexico. The lad told Mrs.
Heeeman that he never desired to
come to this country. but was impor.
tuned by others to come and secure
the riches that awaited the Mexican
who would come here to work ON the
railroads and other works where big
wages and the prospect OF riches
4 waited his accordance. Ever since he
cav the snow nv. he has pined to re-
turn to home and parents. Then. too
this state Of homesickness that IN him
took such an aggravated form. was
greatly nugumented nv the letters he
received Occasionally from his old
mother. These letter.. he stated were
~, <h<> ,,..h1S~ .1r<<<.v rv~ixAv ~
ca,,se ~ az many ~ the noorer Mexi.
cans being unable to write, and they
told Of the yearnfng Of the sorrowing
parent for her baby son, EusebiO, who