Washington Bee (Washington, DC)
26 February 1887
A MAN WITHOUT FEET AND HANDS
Those who may visit No. 222, Jackson Hall Alley, n.w. bet. 3d and 4 1/2 sts., and 6 and Pa. ave. will find a helpless invalid man, without feet or hands. His name is Lucion Novels Monroe; age 40 years. He was born in Prince William Co., Va. in 1847, and has been afflicted 31 years as follows:
For two years he could only go upon crutches, ten years, he could only set up in bed, and for nineteen years he has been confined to his bed; unable to move farther than others take him, and for twenty three years, unable to feed himself. He was taught to read in 1863; professed religion in '69, and in 1870, in the month of Sept. he was baptised. He is now about 3 feet long, having been parched up by a disease which was indescribable by the physicians, who begun with their conjectures of the white rising.
[The Washington Bee (1882-1892) was a Washington, DC newspaper read predominantly by African-Americans and edited by lawyer-journalist William Calvin Chase. -cgl]
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