St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 17, 1925
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Zz ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 19235. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ————— By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. DAYTON, Tenn., July 17.—Ora- tor® abundant throughout the Scopes trial, attained a new peak of brilliancy yesterday afternoon, when William J. Bryan made a characteristically moving appeal to | the court to bar the testimony of the scientists who are here to ex- plain evolution, and was answered by Dudley Field Malone in a 25- . minute address which, for sheer dazzling eloquence, overshadowed anything which the trial has pro- duced. Bryan's own effort was a fine -one. With his great voice and outstretched arms he pleaded with the court to end the trial quickly and vindicate the right of the fa- thers and mothers of Tennessee to save their children from the creep- ing curse of irreligion. He waved aloft the banner of the cross. His tones throbbed with the devotion of the evangel. When, at the end of an hour and minutes, he cor- cluded, it seemed doubtful if any- thing could resist the emotions he had aroused. Then Malone arose. He was dapper and precise. Everything about him was calculated to preju- dice the majority of his audience against him, his Manhattan accent, his Fifth-avenue clothing, and, he gpoke. In five minutes it was rigid and hypnotized, spellbound. it remained throughout, and thrilled against the ancient walls of Rhea County courthouse, beating upon the rapt ears of fun- Bryan's address in part, fol-; lows “Up to this time I have od thought it proper to take part in been with phases which involved | the State law and local practices, | with them. But today we have ar-. | rived at an important pa:: of this “T¢ the Court holds, as we belleve #t should, that ‘ho testimony now offered is not compcten: and proup- er, I assume We ace noir the end of this trial. -Bovause the question 4 is not local, but the broadest that * @an possibly arise, I feel justified in submitting my views. | “Hitherto I have pen tempted. but have been able to withs*and the temptation. “T have been drawn into the ve. cussion by nearly all the luwyers on both sides. The prinec'pal de- fense attorney has sugsgestea that. I am the arch-conspirator, respon- sible for the passage of the law and. the presence of this case. !} am credited with being the leader of ignorance and bigotry in this country, Importance of Guliietion: “The question here is important, not as a contest between science and religion, but between religion and irreligion—so important, in- deed, that invoking the divine blessing upon these proceedings is regarded as partisan. “Our petition is that the statute sufficiently defines what the peo- ple of Tennessee desired to, and did, declare unlawful. It needs no interpretation. It specifically says that teachers are forbidden.-to teach any theory of creation that denies the divine record of creation in the Bible. If Scopes taught that text- Dook he violated the law, It is ad- “mitted that he taught it | "Moreover, we have His own ad- mission that he knew he was vi»- lating the law. We don't need any experts to tell us what the law : means, “Experts should not be perrfitted * to come in here and tell us that evolution is net a bad doctrine. This is not the place to prove that; they should have proved it to the ture when the law was he- ing considered. If they had wan‘t- ed, as they claim, to save Terines- from the disgrace of putting tself Hefore the country as igno-- rant and bigoted, they would have gone to the Legislature with their eee eee ST.LOUIS F LOUIS POST ego by Rens mma A steven, 8 ° “ol Garecetion tions.) vie Autocad OF THE As®oc ‘HE ASFOCIATED PRESS. a rons 3 republication ot ¢ al Sesere ae Prion TAREE BY MAIL IN , one Year - dl an damentalist and modernist, until even the leaves of the great maples outside the window seemed to quiver and grow tense. Roar of Applause. Only minutes, yet when it came to close there was an instant ot throbbing silence, and then it was shattered by a roar of applause "°, ree | so tumultuous and prolonged that And thus! about that. while the| defense in a better position than fiery Irishman’s vibrant tones rang| they have been at any time since . the hammering of the bailiff upon the Judge's desk could not be heard above the din. Bryan had been warmly cheered. It was nothing like this intimidating uproar. Had Malone converted this rock-ribbed fundamentalist augience, or was it merely a spontaneous tribute to a masterly effort? Last night a law- yer of the prosecution gave the writer this explanation: “Malone has put us in a hole. He won the sympathy of the crowd. They are anxious to hear this scientific testimony. They have their minds made up not to believe it: They don't expect to be con- verted to evolution. They don’t expect it to affect the verdict. Therefore they don't se® why it shouldn’t be admitted. They want to hear it. They want to know what evolution is all about. Bryan has told them it can’t be proved, and now he Is trying to deny the de- fense a chance to prove it. That doesn’t seem fair to the people around here. They expect Bryan to eat the scientists alive. Now it most of all, the cause for which! jooks to them like he is running In two minutes the away. We are opposing the admis- courtroom was frozen in silence.|sion of this testimony on what we believe are sound legal grounds, : don’t care anything That speech put the this trial started.” : The jury was not present during either epeech. ~ Bryan’ s Speech Urging Court To Bar Scientists From Stand “It is from New York that the impulse comes to resist the law. It is an impertinent and an offensive invasion of this State. New York, these discussions, because we have. | passed a law repealing the enforce- ment of prohibition. If Tennessee had attempted to send experts up and I have thought it best to leave | ‘there to tell them prohibition was these to those who were familiar ls good thing, would they have hesi- tated to tell Tennessee how impert!- nent and offensive it was? The people of Temnessee knew -rwhat they wanted when they passed the law to Keep this doctrine away from the minds of their children, and there is no place for expert test!- mony here. . 7 “Why, the Christian people of this State have agreed not to teach In the schools the Bible in which they belleve. Then shall a minor!- ty from the outside come in here and compel them to pay teachers to teach something which denies the Bible?’ Taking a copy of the biology text book which Scopes tauxh’*, Bryan began to comment derisively upon an evolutionary diagram, or “family tree’’ He pointed out that it HNsted among other classes 3500 mammals. “And this texthook ‘hat you are teaching your children Says that man is a mammal along with ele- phants and tigers,” he exclaimed. “Somewhere among these 3500 mammals is man,” “Are you denying that ian is a mammal?" exclaimed Arthur G. Hays, at the defense counsel table. but bryan hastened on without heeding. *Man in a Circus Ring.” “Taik of putting Daniel in the lions,”” he shouted, “how Jare there ecientists put mai t{nte «a circus ring like that, containing 850° animals. There they © are, 3900 mammals. F:nd man. Tha*’: the great -game in the public schools, find man among the: m:zm- mals. Yet they want to bring ex- perts in here to prevent your fna- thers and mothers from protecting their children against this doctrine which is turning them out Infidels, agnostics, even atheists.’’ Bryan started to read a passage from Darwin's ‘“‘Descent of Man.” | “You will have to excuse me if I stumble over some of these long words,” he said. “I have been try- ing to make my language simple all my life.’’ “Are you introducing that book in evidence?” interrupted Malone. | .“No, but I'm willing to ," re- | piled § Bryan. Attorney-General! Stewart, who has been supervis- ing all the legal phases of prose- cution, started up, looking wor- ried. It seemed likely that Rryan. unaccustomed to actual court prac- tice, was.in danger of allowing his rhetorical zeal to meas up Stew- art's carefully laid plan. , “We will be very glad.” Hays hastened to say, “if you will enter an agreement now to let us intro- duce that book in évidence and put witnesses on the stand who will explain exactly what it means.’ and what evolution is.” Bryan acked away from the trap peo Court Asks a Questio Here Judge Raulston «ange OG ably inquired of Bryan if he un- derstood the theory of evolution to deny the virgin birth. Bryan re- plied that the very nature of evo- _ Arguments For and CROWD HELD SPELLBOUND WHEN ORATORY RISES TO NEW PEAKS OF ELOQUENCE New York Lawyer, Replying to Commoner, | Urges Court Not to Close Door to Expert Evidence on Evolutionary Theory. | | | , | lesophy were more guilty of the | Rryan himself has made it. erime than Leopold himself,’’ Bry- of the animal worl1 | | which it contained. Oe | “Tl have a copy of your speech here | Again __.____- prolong this case. This Court is EARTH'S AGE ESTIMATED Gur auty to get ahrough with the AT BILLION YEARS OR SO BY GERMAN SCIENTIST | “We need no experts. We have the law. Itis plain. We have the Bible. There is the divine record By the Associated Press. KOENIGSBERG, Germany. Jwiy 17. of creation, the only record that HE approximate age of the earth, in the opinion of Prof. Wilhelm Eltel, is from 1,- | 100,000,000 to 1,200,000,000 years. An account of his inves- || | tigations just published hers) \ shows he arrived at these ‘ig- | ures through calculation o7 the radio activity of various strata T Malone’s address follows: “TY think we have gone far from fhe facts and the issues in this case. Let us get back to them. It may be unfortunate, but whether he on earth, under pre-cambrien | /ifkes it or not, Mr. Bryan is a mam- stone formations as representing || mal, he is an animal and he is a man. “Let me say that I think it is in poor taste to cast slurs upon the teaching profession and upon the men of science in this. country. God knows, it igs the poorest paid pro- fession in the world. Consider the sacrifices which these splendid men and women make. They bring to the service ‘of humanity their gifts of study, the willingness to work, the insight to discover, and _ oh, what miserable rewards they get. the oldest known minerolosical deposits. lution would make such a thing as the virgin birth impossible. “More than half the scientists in the country do not believe in a personal God. I understand they claim that Jesus was born of Jo- seph or some unknown corespond- ent,”’ he said sarcastically. “Huxley,” he continued, “wrote 60 years ago that wntil science ped ~ rw tc one species that had “Mr. Bryan has spoken of our sprung from another species, the coming here from other parts of hypothesis of evolution could not the country to take part in this case be dignified with the name of the- |as an impertinence and an offense. ory. That was 60 years ago, and | What brought us here? Mr. Bryan in all that time they have not|himself. We never thought of it found a single species that came until we read in the daily papers from another species. Not one. Yet that Mr. Bryan, from Miami, had they come here-and call us igno- offered himself to the State as a ramuses and bigots because we special prosecutor in this case. won't throw our Bibles away.” “He speaks of our children. I Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, the fa-' speak for -our children. Nay, I mous zoologist, who testified con-/| plead for them. Are they to have cerning evolution Wednesday, was their chance? Is the door of in the courtroom, and the writer knowledge to be closed to them? asked him if Bryan's statement was Are they to know no more about true. Dr. Metcalf scribbled the fol-/science than the ‘prosecution here lowing reply: ‘has shown itself to know? “There are no such things - ot | Offers to Bring Theologians. ture as species. There are animals “He speaks of protecting re- and plants of divers sorts, but spe- ligion. Is Mr. Bryan the only Bible cies is an indefinite term, never | cholar? Is ham Seated the used in careful expression. How-_ only word of God? We are offer- ever, many thousands of aniinals | |... to bring ominent’ theologians and plants have re a cl here and to obtain from them tes- “rd ae docus at “nal se | timony ames SB Oy DEVS BP SISSiomty another far more than do animals | reconciling evolution and the and. plants in nature which cre os a you rot willing to hear, commonly classed as different spe- them e offer to bring scien- 'tists who believe in the Bible,_and cles.”’ |belong to churches, and who are God- fearing men, to tell what the \ “it Isn't True.” Afterward when Bryan had con- |think about this subject, of the) cluded his address, the writer | reconcilement of science and re-| |showed him Dr. Metcalf’s state- |ligion and won't you hear them? |ment. “It isn't true,” Bryan de- clared. “It simply isn’t true. I am familiar with the latest an- nouncements on the subject, and they haven't produced anything of “Yesterday I made .a remark —— as personal to Mr. Bryan: that the defense believed we must) _keep a clear distinction between) our children can read with cle ny minds and pure hearts. There it stands, the word of God, the salva- tion of man, the proof that Jesus was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary and was crucified for the sins of the ) world.”’ Dudley Field Malone, in Reply, Challenges State to Meet Issues defendant is not guilty of violating this law. We contend he could not violate this law. here that there is no conflict be- taught. on his own theory, in this own way. After you hear the evidence, if it out. ‘Ready for Battle.” “What is the jury system just a week ago, when he said it Was a seal men, in a free State? would learn something? to take the jury out of the court- room? Have we? We want every- and cross examination of the prose- cution. We have come ready for battle. “Is our weapon to be taken from sided ? are not afraid of it. The truth is no coward. The truth does not need the law. The truth does not need ‘the forces of Government. truth is imperishable, eternal and ‘immortal, and needs no human agency to support it. We are ready to tell the truth as we understanfi it, and we do not fear all the truth that they* can present as facts. | y | afraid. which might have been interpreted, T sald the defense in this case.’ “We are ready, we are ready, feel we stand with progress. feel we stand with science. Wie feel we stand with intelligence. We feel we stand with fundamental freedom .in. America. We are net Where is the fear? We meet it, where is the fear? We de- fy it, we ask your honor to admit ithe evidence as a matter of correct law, as a matter of sound proce- | dure and as a matter of Justice tlo Attorney General Speaks. Late in the afternoon, in the last. the sort.” the Bible, the church. religion and| SPeech of the day, “Evolution,” Bryan's speech. Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan, like all of back at the defense by continued, “begins nowhere and) ys, is just an igdividual, but like General Stewart was: ends nowhere. They don’t dare to! himself, he is a header. The dan-| tell you that it all began with) ger from the viewpoint of the de-| God,” and take away from these | tenge ig this, that when any great little children their faith in God, | tender goes out of his field and and fob them of the belief that | speaks as an authority on other! when this toilsome life is done God | | subjects, his doctrines are quite stands ready to welcome them /iixely to be far more dangerous with loving arms. than the doctrines of experts in) “Nietzsche,” said Bryan (DP or their field. , nouncing it ‘“‘nitchy’’) “was th moira es = courage 19 |. prosecution, inside and out- theory of evolution. "+ side of the court, has been ready “A young man _ in Chicago | t try the cast, and this is the studied that philosophy, and wand pares What is the — that has result tvas that one of the lawyers| &4ined the attention not only here defended him for committing | the Sere. ag es se ora the most atrocious crime in the | everywhere 5 & mere tecne- history of this cguntry. I am talk-! nical question as to whether the ing about Mr. . opold, in the Loeb- a chek bf axtence? Leopold case. He pronounced grap Loeb as “‘Leeb.”’ | arparenee of Issuc. “In defending Leopold Mr. Dar- “Oh. no.’ row said st university pro-| rang thrillingly upon the air. “Oh, | fessors who t@ght Nietzsche's phi-| no, the issue is as broad as Mr. issue is as broad as Mr. Bryan him- | self. has published it. The issue is Challenged by Darrow. ‘as broad as Mr. Bryan has de- “T object to that,” interrupted | claimed it. Why the fear? Darrow. “In the first place, there| why the fear? isn’t a word of truth {n it, and in| broad as they make it-—and I say the second place nothing to do with this one. never said anything of the sort.”’ “Didn't you,” retorted Bryan, producing a paper-bound volume. an added. I | | meeting the issue? “IT don’t understand “IT never saw Mr. |away from a great issue before. “T feel ts filled ¥ith a needless fear. I believe that if they withdraw their it. and I will read it to you.” “Let’s hear you,” was the blunt. challenge. Bryan leafed through the vol- ume and back again. Finally he only be improved, but their souls. came to a passage in which Dar-| would be pur Are the men | row had declared that “If it is a| who are giving théir lives to study | fact that Leopold took Nietzsche's and observation to the teaching of philosophy seriously, and tried to the young—are the teachers - and live ‘by it, that had it In their libraries, the. scholars whe defended it, and the. “publishers who printed it might | be held more responsible than Leo- | pold.”’ America who care about our Darrow, however, took the vol-’|} youth? Is the church the children to whom they have dedicated their lives? “Are preachers the only ones-in | | ST NE ey SOR ee ee ume from Bryan and read on,| source of morality in this country? showing that he had added: | I do not believe the universities; the children of the country. We are to blame, or should be held re- | have no fears about the young peo- sponsible. You cannot destroy | ple of America. They are a pretty thought because some minds are, smart generation. Any teacher deranged by thinking.”’ | who teaches the boys or the girls Bryan retorted that Nietzsche | today an incredible theory will not had rated Darwin as one of the receive much attention. The chil- three greatest men in history, and, dren of this generation are pretty added that Nietzsche died insane, ‘wise. after making a great many other | men insane. “As a matter of fact, I feel that “He didn’t make half‘as many | the children of this generation are insane as Jonathan Edwards did.| probably wiser than many of their If. you doubt that just consult) elders. The least that this genera- some statistics,” was Darrow’'s an- | tion can do is to give to the next ‘Many Wiser Than FEkicrs.” swer. | generation all the facts, al] the “Not a Mock Trial.” | available data about all the theo- | “One beauty of the Bible is,”’| ries, all the information that learn- | Bryan resumed, ‘‘that !t doesn’t! ing, that study, that observation | take an expert to understand it. has produced—give it to the chil- There it is—the full explanation; dren in the hope to heaven that ‘of life, and the road to salvation.| they will make a better world of It has been translated into ail lan- this than we have been able to guages and men in far-off climes | make of it. and lands have read it and reading ‘We have just had a war with it, have felt giow of hope and the divine con- sciousness of sins forgiven. Civilization need not be. For God's “This is not a mock trial. I beg sake, let the children Hive their yo honor not to let them make ft minds kept open. Close no door a mock trial. If these scientists | to their knowledge. Make the dis- want a mock trial, let them wait tinction between theology and sci- and start it-after this case is S0- | ence. Let them have both. Let cided, and those who want to re-' them both live. } main for tt can do so. Let us not “We come here to say that the s0 proud of the work of the adults. > i eld =~ er > 5 = ~ - Or Re oe tent ded - = oe r> ee Oe ge bale ote os rx, ER Perr eS wre. 2 oe , - 5 ~ : 7 - “ | defendant Scopes taught the para-)| The | Oh. | If the issue is as. Bryan back)! objection and hear the evidence of | our experts, their minds would not | General stoutly, then the universities! scientists of this country In a com- | bination to destroy the morals of. “Rut |I would like to say something for | in their hearts the 20,000,000 dead. Civilization is not | acti ah vi i Nn ea as sl 5. i ar _—~ ene wr ~~ % _ of Christianity doesn’t deserve a chance.’ Arguments on the question of a |mitting the testimony of a dozen /eminent scientists whom fense had brought here to testify. _ concerning the nature of evolution, | the theories of how it occurred, and its reconciliability wit the Bible, | “What I don’t understand is this. | consumed 3d . the entire session, defense pleading passionately admission of the testimony, State battling desperately to keep, it out. Gen. McKenzie ‘laugh when he spoke of the ef- forts to reconcile evolution and thie of. Bible as follows: “They are try!ng to reconcile | them, your Honor. The Bible says_ ' God created man We can prove by witnesses whom we have brought tween the Bible and whatever he: “In a criminal case the defendant has a right to put in his own case, is inadmissable, you can strike it that Mr. Bryan talked so correctly about of freedom for free Who has been excluding the jury for fear it Have we? Who has been making the motions thing we have to say on religion and science told, and we are ready |’ to submit our theories to the direct in here us, so that it will be entirely one “The truth always wins and we The truth does not need Mr. Bryan. The We the de-| the for the the ground “that it is a violatton got the biggest in his own im- the speaker's voice | age, in his own image created him | | st Scientific Testimony by Bryan “Let Your Gourd Seeds Rattle, Buddy; They Don’t Sprout’ Tennessee Replies to ‘Utterances of Henry L. Mencken. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 17. } —The Rev. A. C. Stribling, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Dayton, wrote an article for the Chattanooga News, which has been publishing H. L. Menck- en’s reports of the trial, in whieh he held forth as follows: ‘What cheap blatherskite of a pen-pusher can refer to courage while he is a guest of the great Volunteer State? None byt a nut suffering with a malignant case of Menckenitis. Let your gourd seeds rattle, buddy; they don’t sprout. “T am sorry that Mr. Mencken has been so ignored by the people of Dayton that he has not met any of our best citizens. It is true that we have some of the kind he refers to in some of the back alleys, but what in Sam Hill was he nosing around the alleys for?” The unkindest cut from Mencken was his assertion that Dayton Bap- | tists consider Dayton Methodists in- fidels. A. P. Haggand, chief com- | misioner of Dayton, remarked to a | | | the answer flung | Attorney-. “That which strikes at the vitals | \ | | | | principle, every out of the dust of the ground. and! into him these the breath of life. scientists come right blew But along and they want to put words | and make him say in his mouth ition, declaring that he issued some sort of a pro-| toplasm, eoft as a threw it into the ocean and sald: Old boy, you wait there about ‘and make qa man out of you.’ dishrag, ann | reporter: ‘We don’t Hke the things Mencken is writing and we want him to know it. I hope nobody lays hands on him. I stopped them once, but I may not be there to dissuade them if it happens again.” Mencken, who is editor of the American Mercury, im a series of syndicated articles hag been sneer- ting at the people of Dayton and calling them “morons,” “hill bil- lies’ and “yokels.”” This has in- censed the Tennesseeans. Already Mencken has provoked’ several spokesmen to wrathful replies. JUDGE EXCLUDES SCIENTIFIC TES-IMONY FROM SCOPES’ TRIAL ¢Continued from rage Ome) of the expert testimony will result in vYastly shortening the trial. In- deed, it is almost over nowy The defense will not havea sin- gie witness. Scopes will not take the stand. All that remains is for | Darrow to read the statement into the record and then the closing arguments. The latter are likely to consume three days. Nothing which has occurred has angered the defense like Judge Raulston’s decision to exclude their testimony. Declaring that it meant g.| simply that they were not to be allowed to present any defense at all, Darrow, Dudley Field Malone, Arthur G. Hays and John R. Neal all engaged in a sharp exchange of words with the court during which Darrow virtually defied the Judge ‘to eite him for contempt. Hays excepted to the ruling on ‘of elemental justice to deny the defense a right to present its case on its own theory and in its own way—a denial which violates every precedent and ev- ery item of the snirit of Anglre- Saxon jurisprudence.” Demands Retraction. Attorney-General Stewart leaned up and demanded that UHayvrs re- tract the language of the excep- that “it refiected upon the Court.” Hays flatly clined to do so. Judge Raulston’'s attempt to. maintain his habhi'ual smile was pitiful. Hays Argued that Judge Rau!ston should hear ‘(je- the testimony to determine wheth- 6\- | that case has | that it is—then why this fear of 000,000 years and I'll come back | er the law was unreasonable and therefore unconstitutional. sewort replied that the Court had already | passed on the constitutionality of “Let me ask you Adel interposed Darrow, when the ‘aughter had subsided. “When it’ “although I admit it is @retty when we look at some fellows. don't mean you, Colonel. mind you favoring him.” “Just Look At a Man.” XY "In other words,” row. “tf vou want to know what God looks like, just look at a man.’ ‘“That’s what J believe. The ‘word of God says in His own imace. j and I believe it.”’ the only | “I don't,” sald Darrow. God looks better.’’ “Do yoy think,” asked Dr. N22 of the defense, “that ff a teacher tn the Tennessee public schools failed to teach his pupils that man {is physically like God, he would be violating the law?” "We'll try that lawsult when we come to it, Dr. Neal,”’ was the Gen- eral’s reply. Stewart's argument was directed largely we | the legal aspects of the question of admitting the eviden Lis ee 9 4 ete te 7. and Malo 1 ture had.provided that it 4 in the Bible and then by @ intention and that the real in the statute and as to the « in calling in expert “The Court will seek ¢ es ® . ty “The legislative intent wi tent, general terms will be | must look to the act ds a section with another and ¥ 4 ’ “In the act involved ind planatory of the legisiatt then why call experts. 7 y . parenthesis, I desire tor least show the man. the « for the word ‘descend. * .- If the Court is ¢ rt o—~ © = - By the Aséociated Press.” yH*« fessed that he attempted 1 D Beatrice. and Rosemary *@ veering — . since iast Monilay bat. with intent to murdery 8 sprinkled arsenic on meat been eaten by the Clinton’¢! through poisoning of her Effert had come here 0 | a. N fi: ph Pentel 7% a om to devise ways and means t as to its policy, but is interested | only in its pfoper interpretation |] ("8 the paper ‘ha 1008 fand, if valid, its enforcement. Last year more than poe x “> $ ; be a, , sé - “we by. +t % at Ben an coultl - n a . m poie The pu °% “3 ow foe ae Jie i ee ee municipal erday. viously the run. ; after their charge. 7 Tears Off His Clothes. Greenwood saw them, tore off shirt and trousers and toward the. pier. appled with him, verful, ld him. He fou n had mpties under the pier. rds rowed around the pipe he| of - fas safely on the other side. Game of Aquatic Tag. ‘This aquatic tag kept up half hour. Meanwhile, the fire boat holes. — ————ooorr— 2 ONLY TO AGAIN ESCAPE With Clubs to Beat Off Rats, Pair Finally Over- i ‘ | Leased Wire From the New 3 Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. ' NEW YORK, July 17.--The “Public Welfare steamer, Wanderer “had just shoved off on her weekly trip to Ward's Island from the only Twenty-sixth meereet and the East River at noon Aboard were 25 pa- nts from the psychopathic wards é of Bellevue Hospital, destined for the fnstitution for the insane on * island. _ About the yacht station of the York Yacht Club nearby were “saa officials, yacht waiting for boats. Twenty- th street itself was crowded with | ons awaiting entrance to Belle- plier at Vue. . ) Suddenly Davia Greenwood, 27 : old, a painter, who two hours awakened from ‘Sleeping sickness, contracted Ju 10, plunged into the river from th “Starboard cabin of the Wanderer. ' Warning shouts of onlookers Drought guardsto the gangway on Two of them Jumped had The downatream, McCormack aboard guards approached the sewer which When the a w Yorker, commanded by Lieut. y ds 2 ny... i” yo * 3 Tee, again a : . & A 4 » y they ‘ ay 7
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