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Twice A Week Plain Dealer
Cresco, Howard County, Iowa
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Inmate Gustav Hamann at Anamosa prison found a lady's lost pocketbook containing $559.57 and returned it to authorities, who gave it back to the owner. This is the second such incident of honesty by inmates, following one where a convict returned an officer's lost $25 pocketbook. Hamann, 20, was sentenced last year from Lyon county for seduction.
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as follows to the state board of control:
An incident occurred in this institution
that I think worthy of report. Gustav Hamann, an inmate who is used as a teamster, driving between the prison and the state farm, on his way to the farm the other afternoon picked up a pocketbook belonging to a lady. On his arrival at the farm he looked up the officer in charge and handed the pocketbook to him, stating where he had found it. He was alone. On examination the pocketbook contained money and a certificate of deposit to the amount of $559.57, which has been returned to the owner. This is the second incident of the kind occurring in the institution. Some time ago an officer lost his pocketbook in the bathroom containing $25. It was found by a convict and returned to him."
Hamann is 20 years of age and was sentenced last year from Lyon county for seduction.
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Anamosa
Event Date
The Other Afternoon
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pocketbook containing money and a certificate of deposit for $559.57 returned to the owner
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Gustav Hamann, an inmate used as a teamster driving between the prison and the state farm, picked up a lady's pocketbook on his way to the farm the other afternoon. He handed it to the officer in charge upon arrival, stating where he found it. He was alone. This is the second such incident; previously, a convict found and returned an officer's lost pocketbook containing $25 from the bathroom.