Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1909 — Eugene Dilley Now at Trafalgar. [ARTICLE]

Eugene Dilley Now at Trafalgar.

Long Lost Husband and Father Regains Consciousness and Rejoins His Family. The Indianapolis News of Monday contains the following account of the finding of Eugene Dilley and his reunion with his family at Trafalgar: “Thank God, we have found you!” was a fervent exclamation of Mrs. Edith Pepperill, of Fletcher avenue, when the iron doors at police headquarters opened to i elease Eugene Dilley, Friday afternoon. Tears streamed down the woman’s face as she held out her hands to the man. “There, Edith, don’t cry,” Dilley said gently, “I think I am all right now.” Dilley is the man from Tiafalg-ir, Ind., who was found at the Pentecost Band Mission after he had wandered aimlessly about for many months. An accident due to a falling brick, caused him to lose his memory, and after I e got away from Trafalgar he could not remember where he lived or anything about himself. He applied for skelter at the Pentecost mission about ' two months ago after wandering aimlessly for six months, and since that time he has been working about tuat place. | “In the meantime his wife and six children and other relatives in Trafalgar had appealed to the authoriites lin <every direction to search for the man. His pictures 'were sent broadI cast, but he was not recognized when Ihe came to the mission because he I had grown a beard. The beard was I shaved only a few days ago and the man’s identity became known. Dilley [ seems on the road to recovery. Friday he had a faint recollection that he had a wife aqd children. The more he talked of the matter the more his memory improved, and he re ; emI bered that Trafalgar was his home. It was a pathetic case when the man ! fairly struggled to remember what he was formerly—a husband a .d father and a respected citizen. “When his sister-in-law appeared in the turnkey’s office, Dil eys mind seemed to clear, and he appei el as a man who had been in a ‘Rip Van Winkle” sleep. He knew the woman when she spoke to him and he urged her to take him to his family without delay. The couple left during the evening for Trafalgar, where the wife and children were eagerly awaiting them.” I The appended is a telegram fom i Trafalgar 'after Dilley’s arrival theie: “Eugene Dilley, who had 1 een mis.ing from his home for months, was brought here last night from Indianapolis. He was so eager to come home that he worried for fear he would miss his train. It was not generally known that his family expected him, and the citizens of the town were surprised this morning to learn that the long lost man had been found. “The scehe on his arrival home was pathetic. The man seemed to understand everything that was said to him, and to realize fully where he was. His wife cried with joy. She des not believe he will be fully restored to reason until another operation is performed on his head, and this may be done.”