Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1919 — THIS HEAD WORTH $10,000 [ARTICLE]

THIS HEAD WORTH $10,000

London Doctors Eager to Examine Brain of Man Known as Human Encyclopedia. Of course you have heard of Datas, the human encyclopedia—the man who can memorize and reel off uates quicker than the fire of a machine gun; the man on whose head the doctors have placed a price of £2,000? “But I am not anxious to sell it yet for dissection,” Datas told a writer for London Tit-Bits the other day. “It is worth more to me than £2,000.” Datas has lately been devouring war facts and had just added a couple of thousand in two and a half hours to his repertoire -when we met. , “For an outlay of twopence,” he said, "I bought a little book on a boqkstall, called ‘Two Thousand Facts About the War.’ I bought it and read the list through in two and a half hours and then knew it by heart.” There is no doubt about it. I tested Datas’with the book in my hand, and no matter what question I asked him—dates of battles, air raids, names of ships sunk, famous generals’ careers —he answered them without hesitation, says the .writer. Datas has had many amusing and curious experiences, but the mwst extraordinary was the friendly dinner he shared with John Lee, the Babbacombe murderer, and the late Barry, the executioner who tried to Hang

Lee three times but failed. “Berry, after ceasing to be an executioner, set up at Bradford as a phrenologist and character reader,” said Datas. His card bore the words: “Heads examined.” He examined a good many heads in his time.”