Show BADGER LEPER DIES Passes Away way After Five Long Years of Affliction Lived Life of Seclusion In Building Set Apart for Him at the National Soldiers' Soldiers Home In Mil Mil- waukee Milwaukee Wis Albert S. S OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman man is dead Milwaukee's l leper lepe after of retreat in a little nearly five years of the brick house on the grounds Soldiers' Soldiers home is no more Death came quietly It was the gradual dissolution dissolution dissolution dis dis- dis- dis solution of a body wasted by disease find strength to that could n no longer meet the daily dally strain demanded of It served OGorman O'Gorman was a soldier He m many years fears In the regular army seeIng seeIng seeIng see- see Ing service throughout the east and west He Joined the ranks when the war with Spain broke out and was one of ot the foremost In Cuba and the Philippines It was while with the army tinny in the islands that he contracted the disease which brought his death Upon his return from war OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman OGorman man entered the regular service In various various various va va- va- va rious army posts Then he was taken ill Ho He asked a pension and permission permission permission sion sion- to en enter er a soldiers soldiers' home The Tho request was readily granted A monthly month- month i ly income of 72 was allowed him by bythe bythe bythe the government He was ordered to the Milwaukee national home Then and not till tin then did OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman man learn the true character of his ma malady adY He was was examined by staff physicians who diagnosed d his disease help for as leprosy There was was' no him liim they s said ld and preparations were made to arran arrange e for his comfort during during during du du- du- du ring his lifetime e. In a corner of the grounds a small mall brick house once the home of one o of the officials was set aside for him I Iwas It was tas a two-story two structure with three rooms rooms rooms-a a living room a kitchen and a bedroom Furniture and books utensils utensils sils sUs and regulation clothing were fur tur him and he settled down to live the life Ufe of a recluse during the remainder remainder remainder re re- re- re of his days That was five years ago During the intervening time OGorman O'Gorman lived Y tr r C OGorman O'Gorman and His Abode almost happily Two of his dally daily meals he prepared himself on the cook stove in his little kitchen Each day an orderly brought his dinner to him Tobacco was supplied in abundance dance Papers and books were plen plen- He was vas as a deeply religious char character acter after and spent much time reading the Bible sitting on the low steps of his dwelling basking in do the sun To look at the man one would not realize that he was the victim of or the most horrible of diseases He was Inclined Inclined inclined In In- to a pleasant personality None of ot the horror or fear of the evident t indications of ot leprosy were were shown OGorman O'Gorman suffered especially during the winter time Cold weather he complained increased the steady aches and pains to which he was sub sub- During last winter he failed tailed slowly but steadily Spring came and he rallied slightly but his system was too far gone and the convalescence proved only temporarily OGorman O'Gorman was born in Ireland in 1856 It was In n 1874 that he came to the United States H He settled near St. St Paul Minn and it was from there that he was recruited into the regular army The case of the patient attracted much attention throughout the country coun coun- try He was one of ot two Individuals in inthe inthe inthe the United States afflicted with the plague Several times Umes the state department and the secretary of war considered transferring his case from Milwaukee l Milwaukee kee but there were no leper colonies where he might be bo sent and it was decided finally that he could be best cared for in the little brick building In which he made his home |