El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-11
FROM
ST. LOUIS IN
JUAREZ
Crosses to Ell Paso and Gets
Medicine Which He Says
Is Curing Him.
ESCAPES FROM ST.
LOUIS LEPER CAMP
sUPPOsED Ieper Is I'd az ID

6gEEOC6D 4Ep6E at large II
\ Juarez and he comes to Ell Paso
4 \ at viii and mingles with the peo-
pIe here. St Louis experts have pro-
nouneed him a genuine leper, suffer-
ing with the most dreaded disease
known. The man, George Hartman, es-
capped from the Ieper colony at St Louis
in a sensational manner and fled to FL
PaSO and JuareZ- He denies that ne IS
q leper and says that while he IS suf-
fering from some mysterious blood dis
esase, he is taking medicine that is
effecting cure and that he expects To
return home soon
The mans escape from quarantine
near St Louis caused the peace off
GERS Of half a dozen states to begin
searching for him and was as mySter-
iOus as it was sensational he says
that when he eluded the guards at
quarantine he was met between there
and jefferson Barracks by an automo-
bile in which he fled TO his wife's resi-
dence where he babe her goodby.
Hartman declares that a bottle OF
medicine which his wife has sent him
is curing his skin affection, which med
ical experts have pronounced leprosy,
and that he is recovering rapidly from
the disease which he insists is not the
dreaded malady.a He says that ne will
be back in St Louis within three weeks
and viii be free OF any signs of dis
ease. Discussing his own case, Hart
man said;
4 am secure as far as freedom IS
concerned. I am alive You will see,
and growing very much more so.
L have received a letter from the
dearest little woman in the world
my wife. She sent me some money
and it was a Godsend. I was broke
and hungry. But I have a greater
surprise for you.
About September Is I went over to
FL Paso and got an express package
that my wife had sent me It con-
tanned One-half dozen bottles Of medi-
cine. Ny wife told me II had made
wonderful cures in skin diseases.
81 believe II will help me. I have
improved since I took the first bot
tie. I notice my eyes have cleared
and the redness left the skin Of my
limbs. The skin peeled off and, aft
er the second bottle, the blisters on
my fingers healed
MY appetite is increasing wonder
fully and my Mexican friend says I
eat very much. think my board bill
viii be raised few more pesos
My limbs are almost free from the
shots and my arms are nearly white
as you can see
when I walk over to the quartet
no one seems to notice me I am grow
ing bold I feel secure. cart under
stand II. am simply wild with hope.
BY the way I am improving, I think
I viii see the good old Z. S. A in two
Escape Was Sensational
Z suppose you wonder how I made
my getaway. The night I left, an
auto met me between the hospital and
Jefferson Barracks. I went back home
and saw my wife, bidding her goodby
We then went to Tower Grove station.
In blue Jumpers and oyeralls, we
beat it to Kansas City. I must tell
you about a bright detective I met
at Lexington Junction He was lock-
ing for a leper who had escaped from
St Louis.
~As we sat on a baggage truck at
the depot he explained to US how he
would know the leper. He asked US
where we were going and as 10 our
family histories. We told him all the
nice things We could think of. Then
We caught train
Near Kansas City we got off and
circled the town We feared the po-
lice would be looking for US. We final
y got another train and began our
journey to Little Rock We lived on
sandwiches and tin can lunches.
"On the way from Little Rock we
had trouble with several wise knights
Of the road On one occasion, a brake
man opened the door of the freight
huddled together. He said come out
We weary Willies,' bue 7 was lying
down, tired and worn out
He came over and flashed his lamp
you riding On| I told him I was a
Moose He looked at my receipts and
said: Pard, come back in the caboose:
you can ride to HI on that I went
with him and to sleep. When I aWoke
was in Texas
1T was terrible mistake on the
part of the St. Louis doctors to bury
me alive in a leper camp. Just put
yourself in my place-what other
chance did have but to run away?
Doubts he Has LeprOsy.
IF I had leprosy how is it I am be-
Ing cured so quickly I don't want to
get sentimental but feel could cry