1909_John Korda-2

The Gazette

(Stevens Point)

8 December 1909

An Unfortunate Stranger

Sheriff Berry, accompanied by John Korda [-2], took a stranger, who gave his name as Claude Bergeron, to the Oshkosh asylum on this morning's Soo train. He appeared at the Soo passenger station on Monday and acted very queerly, calling for a ticket that he claimed was on file for him and making other demonstrations, and was finally taken in charge by the police. He is a young man about thirty years of age and at times said his home was in Chicago and at other times spoke of living at Eau Claire. He was examined as to his sanity by Drs. Rice and Walters at the county jail, last evening, and papers committing him to the asylum were executed.Bergerson was very boisterous and ugly yesterday and at one time it took four men to handle him, the sheriff's officials being obliged to place handcuffs upon him in order to control his actions.

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Stevens Point Journal
11 December 1909

[Wednesday]

...Claude Bergeron, the man picked up by the police at the Soo station as the result of a formal examination by Drs. F.A. Walters and D.S.Rice, has been transferred to the Northern asylum. Nothing new as to the history of the man, or of his legal residence, has been learned, but it is believed he is the victim of some drug habit. He was taken to the asylum by Sheriff Berry and John Korda[-2].

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Note: In 1910 Dr. Walters became mayor of Stevens Point and presided over Common Council hearing of the saloon cases in which John Korda-2 served as interpreter. Dr. Rice amputated John Korda-2's right thumb in January 1900.