Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1912 — JAIL RESTORES HIS MEMORY [ARTICLE]

JAIL RESTORES HIS MEMORY

Sight of Prison 7 Brings Back Mind of a Convict at Everett, Wash., Jail. Everett, Wash. —Robert Carlson, a logger, who had forgotten his name and past life, and who had been brought here under guard from Arlington to be examined for insanity, regained his memory at sight of prison walls. He was booked as John Doe Christensen. When the jailer tried to question him, he suddenly blurted out: “I know you. I have been here before. I was in the upstairs corridor four years ago.’ Search of the records proved his statement^.