Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-07
CUT LY'SPENS|ON
Alleged Leper Probably Will
Get Only SIT Monthly.
FORMERLY ALLOWED $72
Commissioner Davenport Has Latest
Report on His Case Under
Amusement.

pension OF SIT a month, instead OF
the ST. allowed and later Cancelled by
the pension bureau. will probably be
granted by the United States government mt
to John r. Early. accused in the District
of Columbia of being leper. and re-
garded as a healthy individual elsewhere
in the world.
Pension Commissioner Davenport has
under advisement the latest report on the
condition of the man who, under an as
sumed name. is winning bread for him.
self and family somewhere. the place be-
ing secret between himself and the
pension bureau authorities That Early
is leper is the decision of the latest
archaeological test undertaken by the
pension bureau. That he contracted. the
disease in the line OF duty while in the
philippines in the military service put
ting the obligation to assist i'm his sup
port upon paternal government, is the
conclusion of Commissioner Davenport.
The ARCHAEOLOGICAL report on Early was
made to Commissioner Davenport only
yesterday. He has not yet had time TO
determine fully his finding i'm the case
but indicates the probable verdict. Early
will undoubtedly be restored to the PEN
sion rolls at a smaller pension than for
merly.
Says He Is a Leper.
In the latest examination Of Early the
Wassermann test was resorted to by
request OF the bureau. Results were neg
alive. A pathological examination of a
section of a nodule by the usual process
found large numbers of closely grouped
red rods in so-called leper cells. The
let he
that these are leprosy bacilli, and that
the man is a leper.
The special examiner who took the
claimant before the board states that
Early appears to be well and able to per-
form considerable manual labor. Early S
ability to provide in measure for him.
self and family is responsible for the re-
duction In pension; for when the original
pension was granted he was Isolated by
the local health authorities and unable
to turn hand to make a dollar.
Early had an honorable service of nine
gears in the United States Army and was
fast discharged November 8, 1906. On July
81, 1907, giving his residence as Granville.
in the Salvation Army. he filed a claim
for pension, alleging that while serving
in the United States Army he contracted
deafness of the left ear. chronic catarrhal
indigestion and kidney disease.
He was examined by a board of United
VT. September Is, 1907. Little disability
from any cause was found to exist, al
though small rate was given for deaf
ness and indigestion. Evidence to connect
these disabilities with his military serv-
ice was called for. but none was forth
coming.
About the middle of August. 1908. or a
little later Early came to the pension
bureau in person relative to his pension.
Immediately thereafter he was taken up
by the District health officers pronounced
a leper and quarantined.
August 81 1905. at his place of confine-
ment, he was examined by one of the
United States surgeons of the District
and pronounced leper. AS most of his
service in the army had been in the
Philippines, 1T was decided by the pension
bureau that the disability must have been
incurred while he was serving there, and
a pension was allowed from July 81, 1907.
the date of fling his claim. at $l2 a
month and the rate increased to So a
mr. 1908