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Show pxaAizrs voice to ' ,t LECTUEJE A JXTDQE WILMINGTON. N. C, May M.-Some-what remarkable and a decidedly startling start-ling scene of a man dumb suddenly regaining re-gaining his voice was presented In the United States District court here. Th supposed mute was a one-armed white man named Lawrence Dudley, at one time a resident here,, and who moved away years ago. He returned several months ago, and by signs and writing Informed the people peo-ple that he had been stricken dumb. He also ' caused domestic complication, as his wife, thinking him. dead, had married mar-ried again. Shortly afterwards ha was arrested for stealing from . the mall agent's office at the postoffioa ana committed com-mitted to Jail. . . - . x , . During his Incarceration he maintained his dump state, and bene he caused excitement ex-citement In court, when he suddenly broke into a tirade tagalnst th way he had been treated. He was sentenced to one year in th Federal prison at Atlanta. At-lanta. ' - |