Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1911 — TRAMP BEGS OF OWN MOTHER [ARTICLE]

TRAMP BEGS OF OWN MOTHER

Wealthy Oregon Woman Identifies as Her Son Mendicant Who Pleads '« With Her for Food and Lodging. Seattle, Wash. —The strange case of the lost identity of S. Chandler Rogers of New York city which came to light here a fortnight ago, has a remarkable parallel in that of Bernard Marvin, a graduate engineer of the University of California. 4 ♦. Mr. Marvin, as a tramp, applied to his own Another, Mrs. C. E. Leiberg, now the widow of a wealthy physician of Eugene, Ore., for food and lodging. He did not recognize her, but she recognized in him her long missing sou, Bernard Marvin. He insisted that his mother was dead. Mrs. Leiberg proved the tramp to be her son by birth marks found on his arms and neck. He ran away* from her, but was caught by the authorities, and is now in a hospital for observation. His mother thinks that naaybe a blow on the head may be responsible

I - for Mr. Marvin’s condition. He cannot remember back any further than the Russo-Japanese war. The surgeons who are observing Marvin are confident this is another case of aphasia, such as Mr. Rogers bad for 14 years, and they are hopeful that an operation may restore his identity.