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Show NOTORIOUS LEPER OF HARRISBURG IS DEAD UARRISBURG. Pa., Dec. 2.. Mock Sein, tho leper, who has boon the Invol -untaiy and expensive charge of the cltv of liarrl8burg slnco July 7, 1007. died "at the Municipal hospital last night, tuberculosis tuber-culosis being tho cause of death. The man was a pronounced leper, tho evidence of tho dreaded disease being apparent on his face, arms and chest, while he suffered suf-fered from lung trouble for months. He came from. China and was found as a. cook in a restaurant hero. He was isolated. iso-lated. Mock never took kindly to occidental occi-dental cooking and after a month's trial demanded his own raw material and set up a stove for himself, on which ho cooked in his own way. He used to eat four and rive times a day. Tho cost of the Chinaman's maintenance, mainte-nance, which is the subject of several debates in city councils, was about S175 per month. Some months it went up to S200. ono occasion being when ho was told he could order some goods from a Chinatown China-town house in Philadelphia. No ono knew what ho was ordering and the bill was $.'17.50. Mock feasted for a week. |