New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-19
rpERS TURNED ADRIFT.
THEY WE'RE DRIVEN FROM NORTH
,,oTuER ISLAND BY AN ORDERLY.

EASE IS NOT CONTAGIOUS AND IT
WILL. NOT LOOK AFTER THE
PATIENTS FURTHER.
r,aa NJ the four lepers who were said TO
escaped from North Brother Island last
s.rrsdav night in the contagious disease
''., ot Bellevue Hospital, and the authorities
', Rel,evue are uneasy. telephone message
r,e sent last night TO the Board Of Health by
s,rerintendent Murphy. asking what disposition
-so,d be made of the lepers. and the Board
= ucalth informed him that having decided
x. ,enrosv was not contagious. 1t had deter
,red to bother no further with the lepers
rt,e In addition to the statement OF Dr. row
=. that he would no. have the lepers any
,onser on North Brother Island. placed Super
ntendent Murphy. of Bellevue, in dilemma.
sr,erintendcnt Murphy will keep the three
,.oers until to-day. and IL he gets the uiti-
n,a,up, of the Health Board that 1t Will bother
40 further with the lepers he will appeal to
ne commissioners of Charities. The three lep-
ers at the hospital are
G Lin twenty eight year, old cnhsmSm, M0ss 80
%or,h Brother Island in May last.
rkMINCi Frederick. forty years old. German who
gives address
s,nSEY. philip ,wen,y-tou- years old colcred Sent to
S'pin' ihe island January.
STORY OF ONE OF THE LEPERs.
According TO the story told by Philip Sidney.
tbs four lepers no. fugitives. but were
..,rallv fred of the island. Sidney's story Is.
in part az follows:
"Or September !. q letter was written TO The
yooub officers making three charges against
Orderly Hin and q clegl; named Dudley Haniey.
These two men are employed on the island ana
have dealings with and care % th~ patients.
ne first charge was that Orderly Hill brought
Moor,
and they came TO the quarters where we We're,
and they spent the night oi September ana
the whole day Of September $ drinking whishey
and singing songs of :ibad nature. these
men made us sit up ard applaud them, and "
We didn't laugh when Moore cracked a JOKE
,beu we would catch it They didn; dare 10
Get full anywhere else. ind thought no one
would ever come near us. and they were sale'
II was bad enough to have the leprosy. but
wors. 10 have to listen 10 thos, drunken men
singing and see them trying to d'nce.
THE second charge tina. Orderly Hill
was taking bandages that We're supplied Tor
our use and giving them TO his iiiendS III NeW-
York.
THE third charge was that Hill appropriated
a s,barrel of apples that some one had donated
20 MS. Last Thursday Drs. Fowler and Roberts
came over to the Island TO investigate the
charges They found that al the charges were
untrue, they said. -
While the doctors were the there; Wiiiam I,.a,
Bryan a leper who lives at No - West Sixty
lhrd-st. when he is not on North brother
.sland asked permission OF DR.. Fowler TO go
to and see MS G.ne5 @ at ane and said
Il he nIisat leave the island at y O'Clock that
night. About S:45 Hill ca me round and said
Look here. you muckers, you get reaay
70 go to NewYork by the rowboat'
ROWED OVER TO THE CIT-.
We said that we didn't wan. to go tha, night
p we did no. have any money any place TO
20 &C. Then the orderly told us TO go 10 the
Office and get sor,s small change. We managed
10 get 90 cents apiece. and we got into the boat
and We were taken 70 the foot Of One -hurdred-
and -thic. g-eghth-st., and put ashore we
asked when We should come back and the or
dery said that We needn't come back at all ana
good riddance to US. We had snort taK on
the wharf. and we agreed 10 come back ana
meet a. the pier at One-huncred- ana -thlfty- :
eghth-st. Saturday afternoon. Lin jug went
dom on Peo-st l and Fleming drllted I,I.aa anou.
town particularly In the Tenderlon and Bryan
went 10 his mothers house. Saturday afternoon
We all met the wharf at one hundred ana,
thirty ghth-st.. and as soon as the Doat starte9
We tried to get into it, and we were all hreo
out We were told that we were not wanted any
longer on the island, and that we would Keep
away If we had any sense. HE, who was IN
the boat said that he would throw the first one
Of US overheard who ventured into the boat.
The noise on the wharf brought big crowd
were lepers they scattered. We agreed TO go
away Bryan went home again to his mother.
Now they say that leprosy amt contagious
Well. / hope it AIT.
"Tha. orderly has been brutal in the ex-
,reme toward us He has called us names unfit
10 print and hes tried to get u5 to run away
from the island many a time. He has even
offered us inducements TO go away and stay
away. When he was asked !! the authorities
wouldn't come after us he said: Don't worry
about that The authorities are only TOO
damned anxious TO get rid OF you muckers.
Lin jug went to the hospital Saturday even
ing TO be treated for skin disease. He was ex-
arlined by Dr. Dice. who placed him in Ward
No. 81 to investigate him later: After an In.
vestgation Dr. Dice diagnosed the case as lep-
rosy AMI had the Chinaman removed 10 the
tent set apart for contagious diseases Yester.
dav Fleming ard Sidney came into the hospital
and inquired for the Chnaman, Lin Jug Super
intendent MurphS placed them in the tent set
apart for contagiuos diseases. and is awaiting
thn FUN Of the Health hoard.