The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
.L|LL|S WILL NOT
 LEAVE THE CITY Kansas City Banker Is Rapidly
 Getting Well HE IS MUCH SCARRED UP Lillis Has Been Taken Home From the Ia fr.I fin
HE IS MUCH sCARRED UP
Lillis Has Been Taken Home From the Hospital and Is Very Cheerful in Discussing His Condition and
 the Future

Kansas City, March 13.-(Special.) .)-Jere was attacked last Sunday morning and injured with a butcher knife by Jack Cudahy in the Cudahy home, will not re- 1 sign from the presidency of the Western Exchange bank, will not leave Kansas City, will not contest the action of the Country club in dropping him, and will take up his daily life in Kansas City just as before the episode that projected him into the limelight. These statements were made by MT. Lillis tonight in an interview.
 | MT. Lillis received the reporter in his home at Eleventh street and Forest ave- nue for the purpose of showing that his wounds were healing rapidly and that | in few days he will be out again as sound a man in every way as before the encounter with Cudahy.
 | w. T. Johnsin, vice president of the Western Exchange bank and an attor- ney for MT. Lillis. had invited the news paper men to go with him and call on Mir. Lillis. Dr. Samuel Ayres, physician | to Mir Lilfis, accompanied the party and dressed the injuries, while the reporters looked on. They were met at the door by a negro butler, who informed his mas ter the visitors had arrived.
 Come up," the banker shouted cherily, from his bedroom on the second floor, and the reporters went in-
 In the midst of luxurious surroundings with the negro butler ready to do his slightest bidding, Jere s. Lillis rested at ease on a big brass bed. Four pillows were under his head and snowy counterpane covered him.
 He gave each caller a cheerful greet mouth would allow.
 I'm glad to see you all," he said. "I have been lonesome for a week and it was only because of the dragon-lil1e watchfulnes of Doc and my lawyer here that kept me isolated so long, | He shook hands with all present. But 1t was not the well known and dapper Jere I.illis that his jury saw tonight: not the bon vivant. not the smiling and debI naire clubman that Kansas City knows | so well.
 It was a man cut and scared all over almost from head to foot, his legs swathed in bandages and adhesive plas- ters. Both eyes were blackened and dis colored and the lips were swollen and black where they had been bruised The face was covered with a growth of dark beard at least quarter of an Inch long, and in this beard were many gray hairs. | Truly there was little resemblance be- tween the Jere 8. Lillis in that brasS bed and the portrait that smiled from the silver frame on the dressing table, and some of Jere Lillis most intimate friends might not have recognized him until he spoke. When he talked it was the same | Jere Lllis. His dark eyes lighted up with something like hukor as he surveyed the jury and he looked up quickly at Dr. Ayres.
 "All right doctor" he said, with some thing that might have been wink had 1t not been from the discolored eyes. | pr. Ayres pointed to the long cut on the left side of the face, starting abo0s the middle of the cheek and running to the point of the chin. It was almost healed and was barely discernible through the gray-streaked beard.
 Now, then.' said pr. Ayres, and MT. Liliis shut his mouth with a vice-lilSe snap and drew a sharp breath through his clenched teeth | Dr. Ayres threw back the covers over | the man and discovered lavender striped night robe. fastened with lavender frogs. The physician uncovered the body and showed all the cuts on the legs. There wounds were just the same as described in these columns early this week. There are many knife cuts on both legs aN7 two slight ones on the right hand. All of them are healing rapidly and some were nearly well today, so that Dr. Ayres left of the dressing, saying that the air would make them heal faster.
 See said Dr. Ayres, MT. Lillis is af- most a well man now, "and he soon will be as sound as before his unpleasant ex- periences."
 Dr. Ayres said that his patient would be able to be about in two weeks | MT. Lillis was asked for statement about the events of last Sunday morning
 The public will believe all the stuff that has been printed, erroneous as well as true. until you tell the story" was suggested.
 You'll never have 1t from me- MT. | Lillis replied. q have nothing to say