Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-11 | Page 10 | Doctors Study Ape Type Man

DOCTORS STUDY APE TYPE MAN LOS ANGELES March 11 P JP- JP George e Bocklet 49 former Chicago Chicag commer commercial alart artist sf whose skeleton has shrunk more than four inches during th the pas past seven years causing him t to feel as J jf he were reverting to to th the ape type will be given every care car known to medical science to prevent further urther det deformation on of ot his bones Seven years cars ago Bocklet stood 5 feet n 7 inches in height He then wore a size 6 s hat Today he hc stands stand approximately 5 feet 3 inches and wears a hat size 8 Dr Frank G. G Nolan who is attending attend attend- attendIng Ing Bocklet today completed arrangements arrangements ar ar- to bring the afflicted man manfrom manfrom from his home in Azusa Cal Cat to Lo Los LosAn An Angeles eles where he will be pl placed in ina a can sanitarium t Dr Nolan said all indications were that Bocklet was leas suffering from o. o Bocklet said leading physicians of or the world have told him he is suffering from Paget's a ets et's disease dis ease An exhaustive examination of ot the theman theman theman man will be made in the sanitarium Dr Nolan said aid While th the shrinking of ot Bocklet may mar make him feel as s if it he were becoming becoming be be- coming more simian said Dr Nolan there is nothing in his disease that thai could be s said id to be reversing the evolutionary process