Richard Mason Returns Home

RICHARD MASON RETURNS HOME

Had Wandered About Thirty Hours

WITHOUT SLEEP OR FOOD

Puzzling Thing is That the Exposure Seemingly Has Cured Him of Pneumonia

Without anyone having recognized him, Hon. Richard Mason, the ex-state senator who got up out of a sick bed on Tuesday and wandered forth in a delirious condition, walked through the city Wednesday night, and much to the surprise and joy of his family entered his own home on N. State street. He was in an exhausted and half frozen condition.

The most remarkable thing about the case is that Mr. Mason had a severe attack of pneumonia when he left his home and yesterday the disease had apparently disappeared. The physician in charge stated Wednesday what any physician would thoroughly believe, and that is that the exposure of out-of-doors would be fatal to Mr. Mason before he could be found.

All that Mr. Mason could remember about the oecurrence until Wednesday evening was that he was taken with an irresistible desire Tuesday afternoon to get out and get some fresh air. The next he recollects is that he was in a farmer's field Wednesday evening and was walking. He realized he was away from home and made his way to the road. He asked the first person he met the location of the place and ascertained that he was about three miles west of Ann Arbor. He got his directions and hastened back home.

He must have been walking continually during his thirty hours' absence as his clothes show that he had not laid down anywhere and he probably had nothing to eat during that time. That he could expose himself to the cold for this length of time and keep on his feet in his serious physical condition is most remarkable and his seeming recovery from the disease of pneumonia by the exposure is a puzzler for the doctors.