Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1914 — LEPER QUARTERED AT FASHIONABLE HOTEL [ARTICLE]

LEPER QUARTERED AT FASHIONABLE HOTEL

Man With Leprosy Took Quarters At Same Hostlery With Vice President and Family. Washington, D. C„ June 2.—John R Early, who for the last five years has made many enforced journeys about the country in box cars and been held under quarantine in many cities while medical experts have disagreed on whether he is a leper, turned up in Washington again today, and before this identity was discovered, took quarters a; a fashionable uptown hotel, the home of Vice President Marshal and others prominent in capital life Early was not discovered untill after he had telephoned to a newspaper asking for a reporter to interview “Mr. Westwood.” The newspaper man at once recognized the noted patient and informed the authorities* who took Early back to his. old place of isolation on the city limits. The hotel and guests Were thrown into a state of commotion. The alleged leper escaped May 18 from the Diamond Head quarantine station near Port Townsend, Wash., was traced to Victoria, B. C., where officers lost track of him.