San Antonio Daily Light

Hard Lines for Manuel Brum.
They
Were Made
Easy When He
Heard From
His Uncle.

Chicago, Oct. 9. - Robbed in Boston
of $9, all in his possession and arrested for vagrancy in Chicago, Manuel
Josef Brum, of the Madeira Islands,
had abandoned hope. Last night he
learned through telegrams that his
uncle whom he set out to find three
months ago, is a miner in San Jose,
California.

Brum, whose mother owns a grocery in a small village in the Madeira Islands, started to find and visit his
uncle, Anton Pashit, whom he only
knew was somewhere in the United
States. In Boston he was robbed, and
fellow countrymen bought him a second class ticket to Chicago and told
him it would carry him to California.
Arriving in Chicago, unable to speak
a word of English or tell his destination, Brum was arrested for vagrancy.
When found by the police he was
kneeling in prayer at the entrance of
St. Peter's Roman Catholic church,
Polk and Clark streets. He was allowed to sleep in a police station for
two months, and finally the police succeeded in locating the man's relatives.
Brum was put on the right train and
left Chicago with a pass to his destination and several hundred dollars his
uncle had sent him.