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Show WOMAN LIVES LIKE AN APE IN SWISS FORESTS Widow of Rich Merchant Wanders for Seven Years In Woods and Is Finally Captured. (lenevn, Switzerland. Scientists nro greatly interested In n womnn who has reverted to tho hnhlts of tho highest high-est apes, vho In seven years of soli- She Swung Herself from One Branch to Another. tary wandering in lonely mountains has forgotten the civilizing inlluenccs Into which alio wns born and lins regained re-gained to superacuto Benso of hearing and tho tree-climbing power which prehistoric man possessed. This womnn is tho widow of a wealthy merchant of Oonovn. Somo time before her husband's death she dosorted her luxurious homo in this city and vanished uttorly. Somo whispered thnt sho wns Jealous Jeal-ous of u certain opera slngor; others gosslpod that eho gambled nnd had contracted dobts of which sho dared not toll her husband. Again it was said that for hor eccentricities she had been Immured In a neighboring asyum. It Is known now that tho woman, who was dellentoly reared, wont mad. Sho wandered Into tho thick forests ot llauto Savoy, a most sparsely set; i tied country. There she has existed for seven years, munching nuts nnd berries, seeking refuge In lonely g'rot toes npilust the winter's rigors. Growing bolder at lntt. she pene trnted to the outer edge of the forest. Her appearance, almost demoniac, tor rilled the peasants, who told the police of the wild vision that had presented Itself. She eluded the pollco by dart lug Into thickets which they could not penetrate or by swinging herself from ono o' the tree brunches far above tho ground. Kven when they enp Hired her the pollco could learn noth lug from her. She mumbled u Jargon Sho has been positively Identified. 1 Her husband left" a fortune to her, but It Is not likely that she will enjoy I It, for she has been Incarcerated' in an. I asylum. |