Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-20 | Page 1 | Mrs. Wardwell, leper Mysteriously Escapes

MRS. WARD WELL, LEPER. ' MYSTERIOUSLY ESCAPES TOMBSTOX15. Arln.. in. Another sonsatlonnl feature- developed In the "Wanlwcll leper cae Today when It -was learned lhat Mrs. Ward well. Ih unruu-llned unruu-llned leper, bad escaped from her uar-ter.- and lier proeni whereabouts aro unknown. Developments hiriieat" trial the woman escaped about midnight Inat nlplit and Is presumed lo have lionrded a ftouthfirii Padllr: train bound for California, Cali-fornia, heavily veiled and cloved to hide the unmistakable leprosy marks and to prevent consternation on tho train should her identity become, known, Arizona Ari-zona authorities have been much embarrassed em-barrassed in handlinp tho case, the Federal Fed-eral firovornmnl refusing to deport her to the leper colony, and there Is no ter-rilorial ter-rilorial law provided to caro for Mmh eases. Flans to have Iho leper returned lo California, from whence she came, have been openly discussed, and slneo tho authorities have not been aetlvo In apprehending her slneo the escape, it Is believed that friends have rendered financial aid to further escape. ln. Ward well also suffera from iv peculiar dementia de-mentia and refuses to believe that her husband Is dead, and has frequently expressed ex-pressed a deslro to go to him in California. Cali-fornia. s