MAN LIKE AN APE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1930, Page 3

MAN LIKE AN APE

25 YEARS CAPTIVE

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright. )

LONDON, February 22.

A ease of fiendish cruelty even eclipsing that at Aiantesvello, in Switzerland (where a woman was kepi years in a cellar), as cabled on Feb ruary 2(;tli, is reported from Berlin. The police have discovered a creator that once was a man, with long hair and finger and toes resembling claws on a farm near Frankfort-on-Oder, following on the receipt of ah anonymous letter.

The creature is fifty-five years old. His brother is a wealthy farmer, who kept him for twenty-live years in captivity in a back loft, the window of which was. not only barred, but plastered up. He was fed’with pigwash.

When found, the creature was in the. filthiest condition. He was unterly naked. He was unable to speak an intelligible word. He resembled a ape rather than a human being.

As- his rescuers entered,, lie shrank hack-,' covering his fare with his hands Gc uttered pitiable. : . inarticulate sounds. . He could not. work, and he had -to be carried to a hospital. When be was fed w’% a dish o bread and .mvl ( k; be plunged bot 1 bauds-brio the' basin.' The nurses had >to I'eml him with a spoon like a babv. AVbat makes.the crime worse is t)ia + bis mother’s will .specially, allotted the wealthy brother -IFOO to help towards her half-witted son’s mamtonance.

v-tuukr D'o brother’s wito nor ln c three daughters had manifested D’ n 'n-qfc pity for the prisoner. Even tlm villagers who were aware ef the man’s existence had not reported the matter. Thp brother was arrested after he ’•o,i threatened three detectives with a shotrrnn.

Thp doctors sav Hint o-p victim hoc suEprnd so much mentally and phyceo'llv from his pnofinemPTit tlmt it is hn-aeccihlp that, ho will ever he ail intelligent human being again.