St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-25
APPARENTLY THE WONDERFUL
HEALER SUSPECTED HE
WAS WANTED.
LAID LOW ON THE ROOF,
AND IN THE EVENING SLOUCHED
DOWN ONTO THE STREET. Pa"
AND ESCAPED.
A Toledo Physician Recites Some
Particulars Regarding the
Missing EIDoctor.1

DR.. Vesto, the celebrated physi-
clan whose operations in st. Paul
and other cities were exposed ex-
clusively in yesterday mornings
G o b e, fed the city late Tuesday
night. The warrant for his arrest
went through the usual channels,
and, owing to some misunderStand-
ing, was not given to an officer to
serve until yesterday morning.
The doctor was evidently appre-
hensive that his presence would be
required, and he therefore made an
effort to remain hidden Tuesday
evening. About II o'clock that night
he was seen by a well-knOwn citi-
zen lurking about the roof of the
block wherein he had located his
institute on East Seventh street.
Shortly afterward he pulled his coat
around his neck, jerked his hat over
his eyes, and crept down stairs and
up Seventh street to the corner of
Wabasha. Here he disappeared in
the crowd.
An interview in an evening paper,
which commercially sought to add
to the facts already published, stat
ed yesterday that a Mrs. Holtz was
found in charge of the Vesto in
stitute at IA East Seventh street.
She conveyed the alleged informa-
ton that her husband is not DR..
VestO, but DR.. Holtz; that DR.. .Holtz
MANAGES the institute for DR.. Vesto;
that DR.. Vesto has not recently been
in st. Paul, and was absent in parts
unknown. The last statement was
the only one bearing a resemblance
to truth. The institute has been man.
aged ever since its Inauguration,
about a month ago, by a man who
stated that
HE WAS DIR. VESTO.
The man has treated, or mistreat-
ed, a number of patients who were
informed that they were in the pres
ence of the famous Vesto; and no
later than Tuesday evening a
G | o b reporter was informed, first
by Mrs. Holtz, and again by a per-
son claiming to be assistant physi-
clan, that DR.. VestO had just gone
out, but would be on hand in the
morning to cure the reporters imag-
mary ailments.
The letter, referred to yesterday,
from a physician in Toledo who
charges Vesto with having stolen
diploma, was written by Dr. 2.
Holt, who says, under date of July
20:
My name is P. Holt, or, as the
full name appears on the diploma,
Pink Holt. 1t is possible that Vesto
has tried to insert 81" after my
name. If SO, it can be readily de-
tected. 1t is the duty of every one
to assist in ridding the country Of
such fakirs and medical mounte-.
banks as Dudley n. Dickinson, alias
Holtz, alias Zaro, alias Vesto, and
God knows how many other names.
THE doctor has a closely cropped
iron-grey moustache and whiskers,
unless he has recently shaved His
eyes are keen and black. He is
about six feet high and weighs in
the neighborhood of $50 pounds"
Last May Dickinson went to
medical institute. About the mid
die Of June his goods were attached
by the Sunday Sun, and were not
released until the 5th of this month.
The goods were shipped to st. Paul
in the name of Mrs. Jane McCau-
ley
A similar letter to the above was
written to the chief of the police
here few weeks ago, but at that
time DR.. Holt did not know that the
famous doctor had assumed the
name of Vesto, and was therefore
unable to refer the authorities to the
Seventh street institute
1t is pity that DR.. Vesto's hasty
departure has interfered with what
was doubtless the largest practice
in the Northwest, for, according to
the doctors circular, he had already
treated S,476 patients in st. Paul
alone.