Leper Won't Take Medicine

Submitted to Examination by an Expert From Copenhagen.

Washington, May 25.-John Early, the leper, now isolated on a farm outside the city, whose case has provoked widespread interest, especially in the medical world, submitted to an examination by Dr. Edward Ehlers of Copenhagen, one of the world's foremost leprosy experts brought here for the purpose by the Washington Post.

Dr. Ehlers asserted that in his opinion, there is no possible doubt that Early is afflicted with the dread Asiatic scourge.

Early has been quarantined since last August and for several months past he has refused to take medicine.

Dr. Ehlers took cultures from Early's body and will make a bacteriological test.

Early is a native of Lynn, N. C, and contracted the disease while serving as a soldier in the Philippines.

--Warren Evening Mirror, Warren, Pennsylvania, May 25, 1909, page 7.