Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-09 | Page 8 | Salt Lake Turns a Leper Loose

SWT UKf IHRIS i A LEPER LOOSEI 1 SALT LAKE, Sept. S. John Kokas. J a leper, is a passenger on an east bound train with New York cltyas1 his objective point and his former I home in Greece as his destination Kokas wears no yellow flag or other mark cf identification save the telltale tell-tale marks of the terrible disease upon up-on his skin. ! His departure Irom Salt Lake City ' last night was taken with the most , secrecy. Provided with a purse by Iriomls who were anxious to escape ; the resonsibility of taring for him, ! he departed from the tent In which 1 he had been quarantined and became one of. the crowd of castbound tourists tour-ists that moves through Salt Lake at this season of the vear. j Beyond the fact that he has gone und seeks "an asylum in his native land, little is known. The railroad on which he took passage has not been disclosed Since the dlaguosls of his disease three months ago, Kokas has been an elephant on pve hands of the authorities The city attempt- I I cd to interest the county in the case; the county refused to admit liability: the immigration authorises could lind ; J in law iimler which he could be de-porf-d. and he was finally , placed in quarantine in a tent where he was maintained at the cost of his friends. When the cae was first observed it had not reached the infectious s'aee ami Kokas was allowed considerable freedom on that account. Subse- qvicntlv the disease made rapid progress prog-ress uud exposure at this time may , not be without danger.