The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-13

Incensed Against Authori-
ties-Wife Takes Myster-
ious Trip to Gotham.

John Early, the alleged leper. de-
clared ,his morning that he is ready to
do battle with. the District health au-
thoriIies, and that from now on he in
tends, if he is not given his freedom.
70 make them preserve the sort of quar-
antine he says they nave threatened TO
establish
IF they're going 10 keep me here, -
said Early, I'm going 10 make them
live up 10 their threats. They'll have
to put a guard on every corner. Itn
have 10 be a real quarantine from now
on. They've talked a lot about it. but
they've let lot of things slide. and now
they've got to get out and do seme-
thing
II intend to fight in the open. I don't
believe In hitting a man in the back or
standing behind corner and black
/ jacking him when he turns it, so I'm
/ willing TO lell them that I am ready to
+ light. The authorities are fighting about
I the meanest way people can fight They
are hitting people in the back and I
told the doctors 50.
I'm willing TO stay here ten years.
| twenty years. lifetime. But II / do
/ it'll cost them something Every time
/ I want q thing they've got to get II
I for me. If they make me prisoner
they've get to keep me supplied. They
! do ths+ nth mHrderers and they've got
/ to do ). with me- The law will make
/ them co il. The law says they've got TO.
Wants Conversations.
"I wish TO God every ~ord OF all the
I converse .ions. mine, and the doctors
had bee7 taken down and were ali
printed. Y suppose it would take the
days output of big paper mill. about
/ 100 tons l guess. but il would be worth
reading
1T seems mighty funny that when
they first declared ! was leper, they
were so anxious to get rid of re. and
now they are trying so hard to keep
me II certainly looks strange, and
/ seems queer, doesn't it2
| 7 want TO get away from here, and
| I'm going to fight to do il. 1 want to
/ be via my family and TO live some
/ where out of this place. Why look
| around YOU. Malaria comes up from
/ that rivfr there. stenches which must
/ be unhealthy come from behind and in
front and from every direction
I'm not going to tell my plans, Of
/ course but / ana telling the authorities
now that I'm out TO night"
/ Ard in keeping il is believed. with
I Early plan OF battle, his wife, who
/ has been with him for months, has left
So dufefIy did she slip away that it
! was Known TO but one or two persons
Eother thar her husband and his guard
/
/ Mrs. Early had gone across the seas, TO
Australia, probably. Early himself de-
/ MED this.
Wife Goes Away.
! you don't think she's that much
| afraid of the Health Department, do
/ you" he asked, and then added: she 5
| gone to New York and isn't going out
/ of the country. She went on business.
I Early wouldn't discuss his wifes trip,
! but ii is believed that she viii conduct
/ the New York end Of his night for free
dom, or at least his battle for removal
I from this city 10 the Skin and Cancer
| Hospital in the metropolis.
! DIR. L. Duncan Bulkley, the New York
! specialist, who first declared that Early
4 was not a leper, did not come TO the
! Capital today. as had been expected.
! He has notified friends in Washington
! that ne is i'll at present Just when he
! will come down is not known.
That Early has good ground for be-
/ lieviuk that he will soon be permitted
/ to 20 80 New York. was the assertion
/ made Oy ore OF the men interested IN
1 the case this morning. According 70
/ this authority Early's transfer TO the
| New York hospital Is now but ques-
! tion of time. The arrangements have
not been completed, this man said. but
/ probably will be as soon as Dr. Bulk
ley is well enough TO come here