Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1913 — HIS MEMORY GONE FOURTEEN YEARS [ARTICLE]

HIS MEMORY GONE FOURTEEN YEARS

Bloodhounds Find New Yorker, Raving Lunatic, in Woods in Washington State. OPERATION RESTORES MIND •ay* He Wan Assaulted In New York City May 1, 1897—Another Man Recalls Former Marriage After Operation.

Seattle, Wash. —For fourteen years Chandler Rogers, of New York City, has roamed around 'this country under the name of George Kelly. Two months ago he was married at Port Blakely, Wash. Two weeks ago bloodhounds found him raving mad and naked in the woods miles from home. He crawled about ou his hands and knees and barked back at the dogs. He was brought to the Providence Hospital here, and Drs. Sturgis and Elmore performed a delicate operation, removing a piece of bone that was pressing on his brain. The supposed insane man not only recovered his senses but his identity as welL His remarkable story is that he was set upon at 16th street and Eighth avenue, New York City, on May 1, 1897, Just after he had accompanied his sweetheart home. Three men beat Mm with a blackjack and threw him into the Hudson river. The last he remembers was'being hauled out of the river. His mind is a blank after that He wrote a long letter to his half sister, Miss Florence Douels, at No. 418 West 32d street, New York City, with whom he had lived, together with his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Donels. Rogers does not even remember his marriage at Port Blakeley two months ago. He had travelled extensively as George Kelly. He is an expert on standing timber valuations. He cannot now recall when he came to the Pacific Coast

A paralled case to that of Rogers was disclosed in the divorce records ©f Pierce County, when a fractured Skull and a long Illness served to recall to George Scott, a wealthy lumberman, that he had a wife and children In Edinburgh, Scotland. This was a shock to his present wife, Mrs. Jane Patterson Scott, who is bringing the action. As Jane Patterson she came to the Pacifio Coast in a musical comedy in 1909. She and Scott met ,in Vancouver, B. C., and were married there that year. After his accident and long illness, while being nursed back to life by his wife, be recalled that twenty-six years ago he was married in Edinburgh. He says Scott is his right name. He cannot recall any illness that would Hend to impair his memory. * Hte second wife, whose home is In Allegheny, Pa., Insisted on the divorce and also that he return to Scotland to aearch for his flrßt wife and children. If he finds them-he promises to make up for his long absence. If he does not sucoeed In his search he will return to Mrs. Patterson Scott and they will be remarried.