Evening star., 1934-03-17
Former Utilities King on
Hunger Strike as Tramp
Ship Nears Greece.
INJECTIONS ARE GIVEN
TO PREVENT HIS DEATH
Safe Delivery Placed Squarely
Upon Captain-Rumanian Offer
of Haven Is Denied.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, March 17-Mrs. Samuel
insult today was reported saving
that her husband would commit sui
eide If delivered to United States
authorities.
insult was reported on a hunger
strike" and so weak and de-
pressed that attendants resorted to
hypodermic injections aboard the
little tramp freighter Maiotis. which
is returning the 74-year -old fugitive
to Greece.
The captain of the vessel himself
administered the injections, it was
said, in an effort to brace the former
Chicagoan.
Meanwhile, the newspaper Ethnos
said that Rumania. through a
decree by King Carol, has granted
Samuel insult permission to live for
five years in Galati, a city on the
Danube in Eastern Rumania This
was later denied by Rumanian
official at Bucharest.
Due to Land Today,
Apparently, the strike" was de-
termined upon in a final desperate
effort of the former American utili-
ties car to stave of extradition and
trial as the vessel bore him slowly
nearer Athens and the grasp of
United States officials.
The steamer on which the fallen
power king fled secretly seeking refuge
In some obscure corner of the globe
was due to return with insult late this
afternoon.
Before reports Of the hunger strike
were received, rumors spread about
Athens today that the "old fox" as
insult has become known to Athe-
mans, might have worked another
disappearing trick by vanishing from
the vessel upon which officials found
him yesterday.
Apparently there was nothing to
warrant such a supposition, however.
except the reputation with which In
sull has been vested in the popular
mind during the II months in Greece
in which he successfully defeated
American attempts to extradite MIN
to Chicago. where he is wanted on
charges growing out of the collapse of
his once vast utilities empire.
Captain Held Responsible.
The rumors were largely confined
to suggestions that the discouraged
and apparently beaten man might
have debarked from the Maiotis at
the Island of Crete or managed to OBJ
tain his transfer to some other vessel.
The marine minister placed the re-
sponsibility squarely up to the ships
master after the latter had raidoed
that he feared insult might attempt
suicide 1t was this official whose
wireless search resulted in the detec-
ton of the fugitive and it was at his
order that the vessel halted in its
dash for Egypt and turned about.
Although it had been stated pre-
viously at the marine ministry that
a government vessel would meet the
Maiotis and insult formally arrested
aboard. the probabilities today were
that the ship would be allowed to
enter the harbor at Piraeus, Athens
port, under naval escort ard direc-
ton.
While in the larger sense Iusull
was ordered returned because the
Greek government was chagrined
and offended by the manner OF his
secret flight under the very noses of
the authorities, the legal position is
that the government is technically
charging him with violation CT rules
applicable to all aliens in that his
papers were not properly stamped
When insult gets back he will be
handed over to police custody and
compelled to leave Greece within "A
hours, said M. Mound Jouridis of the
ministry of the interior, who stated:
insult, on his arrival. will be re-
manded to his home in police Gus
tody and will be expelled in "a hours. -
insult had no travel documents
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