The evening times., 1899-07-19
STRICKEN WITH HYDRoPHoBIA
A Recently Bitten Boy BarIxs ant
Foams at the Mouth.

| New York, July 19.-After series Of
surprising adventures John Wilson, thir-
| teen years old, of Union Hill, N. j.. was
placed on a cot in the Harlem Hospital
last evening, and the doctors there began
10 treat him for hydrophobia.
| The boy says that his parents, Leo and
Mary Wilson, who live at 108 Main Street,
Union Hill, are both critically ill. one from
| consumption, the other from dropsy. 1t
was therefore necessary that he should
| find work he says. and on Tuesday morn
| ing he went to Hoboken and was soon en-
ployed as cabin boy by Theodore Thomp-
| son, captain of lighter.
The boat steamed over to this city yes
| terday and tied up at the foot of West
Thirty fourth Street There Wilson fell in
with several boys OF the dock rat varie-
ty. and, after some rough play. threw him
overheard TO see if he could swim. They
| pulled him out again.
Then Wilson began to bark like dog
and to foam at the mouth Some persons
thereabouts said he was suffering from cpl
| lepsy, but more said hydrophobia. The
boy was removed to Bellevue Hospital, but
as the symptoms disappeared before the
few hours only.
He told the doctors there that he wished
to enlist for service in the Philippines and
had tried to get a job on the cattle steam
er General Cullen, which arrived here yes
terday.
When he was released from Bellevue
Wilson went to the foot of East 103d
Street, to which place Thompson's boat
had gone. He fell in with more dock
rats" there and they induced him to go in
swimming. The boy had forgotten ap-
oil
in the day, and soon he was in the water.
Captain Thompson saw him clinging to
| a hawser and ordered him to let go. He
| did not obey, and then the captain, it is
! said, threw a stone at Wilson, which
struck him on the head and knocked him
| into the water stunned. He was in a fair
way to be drowned when William Ham
berger, of 203S First Avenue, plunged in
and drew him to the pier. $50
| Wilson, once out of the water began to
bark and snarl. and Hamburger asserts he
| tried 10 bite him. George Lasker, of 800
| East l07th Street, ran to a saloon and got
| a glass of whisky, which he offered the
| boy. Wilson bit a piece out of the glass.
Iasker says, and ground it to fragments
between his teeth. Some one sent in an
ambulance call and several persons sat on
| Wilson.
AS he was being removed to the Harlem
| Hospital, detective Wlikesman saw the
crowd, and, hearing that Thompson had
thrown a stone attempted to arrest him.
The captain became excited and fell over
board. The detective thought he was at
tempting to escape by swimming, and gave
chase in a rowboat Thompson was cap
| tCred and locked up in the East 10th
| Street station, charged with assault.
| Wilson told the doctors in the Har. en-
| Hospital that on Thursday last he was
bitten on the thigh by dog while he was
stealing fruit from an orchard in Union
Hill. He said the wound, which was Sc
we're, was not cauterized, and that he sim
ply washed it and said nothing about the
matter. go sfs,s-s
The hospital physicians decided that
Wilson was developing hydrophobia,e and
began the preparatory treatment usually
| applied in that disease. SOL