Byline: Neil Henry; 1980-05-03; The Washington Post; pages 1
Report: "Down & Out" - Neil Henry - Washington Post
Tags: Baltimore, bum, homeless, lived as, tramp, undercover, Washington
Carl strayed into Bethesda the same February evening I wandered into town as a homeless derelict. He was 18, a mentally troubled patient from Springfield State Hospital. He was a lost soul whose path eventually and inevitably met mine at the Bethesda Community Crisis Center, an all-purpose receptacle for Montgomery County's wounded and dispossessed.