The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05
ENID PHYSICIAN
/ BANDITS VICTIM
I IN THIBET WILDS

CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE
Ary from oklahoma, was slain by
tohbers, according TO advices re-
Ceived here today,
{ Famed for Devil Worshipcrs.
: on the border OF that land ia
anous for It's devil worshlpers"
nnd its forbidden city of Ihassa,
where but two years ago he es-
capped from band OF Chinese brig
nnds who had held him captive
for n days and into which for al
most twenty years he struggled 10
bring the teaching OF Christianity,
This preacher and physician met
death, which he had expected from
ill-henlth before his next furlough.
Short Telegram Only Clcw.
A meager report reached the Rev.
DrR s. Guy Inman and II. A. Corey
OF this city yesterday In tho form
OF telegram from DIR. II. q. Bow
den of the United Christian mis-
tionary society's headquarters In st.
Louis. This telegram read; Ca
blegram from Hardy saying bandits
killed Shelton near Batang on Feb
fuAry H."
DIR. w. NJ. Hardy. the clergyman
said, was an assistant to Doctor
Shelton and Batang was the slain
missionary's headquarters In south
eastern Thihet.
The cablegram from Doctor
Hardy gave no further details, In
duiries from ST. Louis disclosed.
To a reporter Doctor Corey said
he had worked with Doctor Shelton
In China. Batang, he said In sltu-
ated In the Hlmnlayas more than
nine thousand feet above the sea
level and surrounded by wild country
Infested with brlgands.
Was Curlo Collector.
In addition to being ono OF the
best known men IN the foreign mis-
blonary service, It is said. Doctor
Shelton was also n collector OF art
and curlos. and pieces gathered by
him In his wanderings are I obe seen
~ tho American museum OF natural
history in this city and elsewhere
Tho kidnapping OF Doctor Shelton
by bandits two years ago resulted
In frantic efforts by the Chinese
government 70 obtain his release
AT that time Doctor shelton had
been engaged in missionary work
about Batang for II years. Word
OF his escape was received by the
state department at Washington or
March 10, 1870.
Describing his experience Doctor
Shelton said. I'VE left Batang IN
November, 1919. and | was bringing
my wife and daughters to the coast
on their way home. | was golnI
back to the interior. We had beer
Journeying toward the coast ~ day,
when all of a sudden bandits began
90 fire at us from cllfr. Soon thoy
swooped down and took everything
I'VE had and captured me.
soldiers Saved Children.
They asked me 10 go and se'
their chief Supposing he merely
wanted to talk to me. / went. They
tried TO take my wife and children
but soldiers came from the town and
Saved them.
THE bandits kept me II days
They wanted 20 get the governor oI
the province In trouble. Thev haC
known that l was coming through
and had waited for me. They de-
.manded $4,000 worth OF arms ant
ammunition I'm exchange for me
but talked their chief Yang Tier
.lu, out OF this.
The governor tried TO surround
the bandits and capture or sal
them.
They escaped, taking me will
-them and for 40 days thereafter
underwent tho most terrible travel
with soltiers continually after u
I'VE were forever on forced marches
ssleeping IN the open when tn
tchance offered. All the time | wa
undergoing torture from a tumor OF
fmy neck,
AT the end Of the second mont
] was so weak | rolled off my mul,
tThen they carried me for five day
on a makeshift lifted. Finally the
laid me IN an old hay barn wit
four guards, who were Instructed I
4secrete nay body II l should die an
fto take me back TO the band II
hshou'd recover. after had lain I'm
hole in the rice straw for five MOI
days my guards heard that soldier
were approaching an fled
Following his escape. Doctor She
ton was operated upon at the Frenc