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Show 1EPER MAKES I HIS ESCAPE I George O. Hartman B Evades His Captors f and Is Now Believed V to Be Headed for Old Mexico Police Are I Searching for Him St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 8. George O. 1 Hartman, the leper, who was taken to jR," the Isolation cottage at Quarantine, f several miles south or St. Louis, ye8- terday. escaped early today He re- II turned Lo his wife's home In the heart I '' I of the city , secured some money and j departed. a nlghtwatchman visited the lep- f " : rosy cabin at 10 o'clock last night and f found Hartman lying in his room, f I apparently asleep. At a o'clock this ! I morning the watchman made another j visit and rouud the room empty. f Mrs. Hartman was Jubilant over her husband's escape "They won't catch my husband." j she said. "Competent doctors have told me that my husband has not lep rosy and when he gets out of reach of the St. Louis health authorities he I I will take treatment " |