Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-25 | Page 9 | Infirmary Doors Close Again upon Aged Runaway, Who Just Couldn't Bear to Stay in 'Poorhouse'

Infirm ry Doors D or Close Again Upon Aged Runaway J W Who Just Couldn't Bear r to toS Stay in Po Poorhouse rh use Doors Doors' of t the county infirmary closed again on a n ye 65 arold ar- ar rold r- r old woman couldn't couldn bear to stay s there and there and ran away Her name name she L i is just another another an an- other old lady h has s seen better days according t tp police For or ma y lady debated de dc- bated run away x r or she ahe he said Her problem was complicated com corn because she had bOld no place v r to togo co o. o But any place she he decided is better than the e so oat nt at 7 p. p m. m Sund Sunday y she walked through i the doors of or the thc u Infirmary E East 1st Twenty first South street She walked slowly down South Sta State e str street t for ford a long Jong way wiy how tar far farshe she doesn t remember er Bushe knows th that t It li W was I s cold eold Sunda Sunday night and her thanks to a kIndl kindly I i r motorist who piCk picked d' d her up were were profuse pr fuSe v rne Fj drove the theold old lady Indy to PrOVO and nd le left her there forby that time iliac he w didn't know where where- whereto t to go She w walked Provo streets streets- for mariy marir until a a night patrol patrol- man n picked d' d her r er Ui tp UP bought her a ameal a m meal al' al aland and notified Salt Lake City police to meet the thc morning train n. n 1 The They did 1 bear to repeated Over ver and Sand over again to Det Detective W. Smith C-Smith Smith and Patrolman Patrol Patrol- ma man mail D. D G. G I ran fan away away- dont don't take tak me ba back k 1 I dont in the poorhouse want to die dIC B t old lady Jady had no no other pl place vt Q So infirmary r doors closed again d again on on her Monday morn morn- I ing jn- lag and and andas as as' thc they dosed closed he cried t. t