Escaped Leper

John R. Early, leper, famous for 15 years for his vicissitudes in and out of confinement, broke quarantine for the fourth time, escaping from the Federal leprosarium at Carville, La. For three weeks he visited friends in the South and Middle West, then returned to his old home at Washington and surrendered to the District health authorities. The case of Early is a living tragedy, for he has been the subject of hot dispute among specialists, and has frequently been championed by Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital. His disease has not progressed, apparently, and has never hindered him from a normal mode of life. But while he lived in freedom at various times, his reputation followed him, and indignant neighbors always hounded him away. His wife has stuck by him. though separated from him by a brick partition in their former Washington home. Early will be returned to Louisiana.