The Press: Rumely

Dr. Edward Aloysius Rumely went to jail last week for something he didn't do seven years ago. But who is Edward Aloysius Rumely? And what didn't he do?

He is a man who was born at La Porte, Ind., in 1882. He is a graduate of the Universities of Notre Dame (Ind.), Heidelberg and Freiburg. He got his M.D. from the last in 1906. It is said that while he studied in Germany he lived on nuts, herbs and other uncooked foods, wore sandals, scanty clothes, and committed other eccentricities. But he came...

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