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Show I Leper Escapes I From Guards H ( Seattle, Wash., May 18. John R. Early", the leper whose case attracted I widespread atteatlon a few years H ago, has escaped from the 'Diamond Head quarantine station near Port Townsend, where he has been con- fined under the care oi the United, I ' States public health service, and Is I ht large. Barly waM lat seen In ft Victoria, B. C, last Saturday. He is believed to have crossed the Strait of W Juan de Fuca in a launch from the I quarsjntine station near Port Towns-I Towns-I end, had to have been waiting lji Vic-I Vic-I torla for an opportunity to return to I Tacoma, his former home. I Early contracted leprosy while serv I lng with the United States army In I the Philippines in 1903. |