Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-13
Henry Weleh, A Native Irishman, Tn
dergOes an Amazing Change
from White TO Black.
At First He Becomes a Light Yellow,
After Which the Tint Stead.
lily Darkened.
Physicians Puzzled and Think Eventu-
ally He viii Be Like A Full
Ri0oded Negro.

There have been negroes whose skins
were so slightly tinted anyway that they
really passed for,white men. There have
even been negroes entirely white, if we
may trust yeracious travellers.
But VINO ever heard Of a white man
with not drop of African blood In his
veins who turned negro.
And ar Irish white man at thats
Yet the singular phenomenon is now
being observed IN q well authenticated
case at the Presbyterian Hospital in New
York city.
As the museum lecturer says when he
makes the living skeleton stand up, there
Is, ladies and gentlemen, no deception
about this The case Is on record and you
can verify it for yourselves. A man about
whose pure Caucasian descent there is no
doubt, who six months ago was OF as fair
and rudy a complexion as any of you is
nov from head 10 foot the color of mu-
latto and growing darker every Gay. The
( case is recognized among physicians as
true and of great interest, Ii is so far az
i, known tue first that has ever come
under local observation.
The history Of this extraordinary patient.
verified in q great part rs inquiry among
his friends, MS Sc. down on the hospital
records and gathered elsewhere runs
| thus
Hi, name is Henry WeIch He is Fifty
/ years olt and the son Of Thomas and Mary
| WEIGH of county Down, Ireland. where he
was born He has been an American
/ tblgty-hye years. most of the time employ
ed as waiter, he came to New York
ten years ago and has been employed in
many restaurants uptown and down. He
/ has boarded for some time with Mrs Jack,
at the corner Of 18th street and the
Southern Boulevard, who is put down as
( his nearest friend. He is unmarried and
| mas no relatives in New York, although he
i, we'll remembered in the pldc where he
/ mas worked He Is member Of the
| Roman Catholic church
| Up to six months ago no one had ques-
/ toned chat Welsh was white man any
more tlan that q horse has four legs. He
WIS as white as any other healthy white
man in New York Some time last No
yember he began 20 he troubled with an
intermittent pain in the region Of his
stomach. al times very severe. He took
home remedies for the st0mach-ache and
was finally treated by physicians. getting
/ better and worse varl5usy- about rs other
[ patients do perchance. lie had "a Ianguid
/ feeling ana a bilious look. and along in
| December his face began 10 take slight
! tInge of yellow. as If he had an attack of
( iaundlce.
1 The vain continued and so did the vel
/ iow tinge Wech worked of and on, as
I the pain Would LEI him. and the color
steadily 90, darker. BY Christmas he was
about me shade Of typical Italian. Bv
/ tie end of January be was as yellow as a
I Chinanau. A month later he would be
taken for uuadmaroon.
By that time he ceased work altogether
! and did not 90 ont very much.
Two weeks AFRO he was like a mulatto
and stil growing darker
Then WEIGH being at last convinced
that providence Tor some mysterious rea.
son had elected TO make a full negro ont of
descendent of an Irish king. smut him.
self I'M in abject dependency.
His friends, who were not so confident
about The manifestations Of Providence
in his case as be was. 10 cheer him up talked
( him into the idea of going 10 a hospital to
he treated. and Nav 6 he was admitted to
/ the Presbvteriau and assigned 10 bed in
| ward 3