Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — MONKEY TURNS ON SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

MONKEY TURNS ON SCIENCE

Flees From Doctors Preparing to Give Him Infantile Paralysis and Escapes Pursuers. New York —An intelligent monkey sat in his cage in one of the laboratories at Cornell Medical college, watching doctors at work under the direction of Dr. Arthur Thrown They were preparing a saline solution containing sweepings from a room that had Sheltered a case of Infantile paralysis, it is possible that he suspected their intention of Injecting the filtered solution into his spine. At all events, he could be heard for a surprising distance as he voiced his feelings. Finally the filtration ,was finished, and the attendants opened the cage. The monkey bounded out, leaped to the, window and vanished by the way of the five-inch coping betwean the first and second'story window. Workmen passing by along Twenty-eighth street were treated to an unusual exhibition of simian antics, cc/ntlnued by the ttuant, who was dead to the coaxings from the window. Then traveling west on the coping, he came to the space between the college building and the Manhattan brass works. This space is used for coal, and it is closed by an iron fence. The monkey tried a flying leap and succeeded in escaping the spikes, but he found - the fence -uncomfortable. FOr hi* next leap he took the startled shoulders of one Michael O’Brien, who was working in the inclosure. Then, before the man’s hands could close upon him, he jumped for the coal pit and disappeared.