Show SILENT SILENT FOR DOZEN cOZEN YEARS VEARS Man Able to Talk Makes Odd Record In an Almshouse York Pa Silent Silent for 12 years never having been known to utter a word during all that time is the record ecord of Jerome Wills an inmate of at the county county coun coun- ty almshouse Wills WllIs is 60 years old and Is the son of a man who is said to have been one one oneat of of at the richest In Adams county Wills has full power of speech and is apparently sound mentally yet for 12 years he has held his tongue He Ile was admitted to the almshouse 20 years ago and showed no disinclination disinclination i nation to talk until after he had been I In th the institution about seven years when It was noticed that he was becoming becoming becoming be be- coming taciturn and tive Then he stopped talking alto alto- gether Efforts to get him to talk made by stewards attendants and physicians have repe repeatedly failed Wills spends his time in in strolling along the corridors or sitting on a bench His head is always bowed as though he were In deep study When his fellow Inmates address him or physicians or attendants speak to him he receives their salutations In silence When approached by visitors visitors vis vis- he will retreat to his room and close the door after him |