The Detroit times., 1911-12-11
dave CLANCY DISCOVERED
UNCONSCIOUS IN OLD SHED
Man Once Heavily Interested in
Mexican Mines Victim of
Mental Alteration.

Dave Clancy. traveller, adventurer,
soldier of fortune and until recently
heavily interested in rich Mexican
mining properties, was found by a
police oficer, Saturday, lying half
conscious in deserted shed, at Fort
ST. and Waterman-ave., alone and un-
cared for.
How he came to be in his present
plight and what led him 10 the hovel
in which an officer found him, shell
tered from a drizzling rain, Clancy Is
unable TO explain. When the oficer
examined him, he found two fingers
on each of Clancy's hands had re-
Gently been cut off at the first joints.
irhe wounds were undressed and the
victim was suffering physical torture
from them. IL,
xaShelye ,semembered having
been In the Solvay General hospital
after some sort OF accident in the
plant of the Detroit Copper and Brass
Rolling mills, but he left that institu-
ton, week ago. against the advice
of the physicians. Clancy has wealthy
relatives here, and when he left the
hospital he said something about go
ing to see them He was returned to
Solvay General hospital again, Sat
urday.
Big financial reverses, combined
with five years OF strenuous toll In
the mines OF Mexico are believed TO
have been David F. Clancy's undoing.
rhat he is suffering now from some
great mental stress Is frmly believed
by the physicians In the hospital.
He came out OF Mexico about two
years ago and friends who knew him
both in the mining country and here
say that he has not been right since
his days OF menta, and physical exer-
lion In the south. He had been sub
ject to frequent periods OF mental
alteration. That his present plight Is
the result OF one OF those periods Is
Gnquestioned.
Dave Clancy Is big, broad-shoulder-
ed. a physical giant, just the sort OF
person one can picture In the. mines
10 which he has given the best part
of himself A great lover OF travel
ne has been over most Of the west
ern hemisphere. Eie made rich strikes
in the copper country OF Michigan.
Equipped with a fine practical
knowledge of mining and having pos
sessed himself of an excellent educa-
ton along engineering lines, Clancy
went into old Mexico. when that sec
ton became famous for it's mining
properties. With his brothers, II. X
and n. L. Clancy, he secured posses
sion OF the Basitequi holdings in the
state OF Sonora, northern part OF old
Mexico The mines promised rich
Yield OF gold and a number Of Detroit
ers interested themselves financial
~ in time.
There were various setbacks. how
ever. and Dave Clancy could not get
enough money to carry on necessary
improvements i'm the mining appar-
atus. Things went from bad TO worse.
The output was not as rich as had
heen expected. Clancy worked with
desperate earnestness, but his efforts
met with failure.
Later, he obtained an option on the
Santa Rosala properties, but his en-
ergfes and his finances were so far
exhausted that he could accomplish
nothing. Friends in Mexico saw that
hc was working himself to death and
advised him TO leave Mexico. go
north. and secure needed recreation
and change OF scenery. At the earn
est solicitation of friends. he left old
Mexico and has resided since In De.
troIt alwavs with the expectation OF
coming back 10 Mexico.
II "a feared now that he may never
be able To 20 back The physicians
at SolvaV hospital say that a few DAYS
of rest will work wonders Tor him'
however. and that he VIII be able TO
leave the institution, after which MS
relatives probably will care for him
until ne is entirely recovered.