The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-11-15
lost his IDENTIFY,
singular Mind Mystery of which n
Man in Denver Is ths Victim,
tDenyer (Col ! News |

young man, whose real name is Withheld.
attempted suicide by morphine. He was
IN very good circumstances, with young
and beautiful wife and several children,
and it seemed hard to assign any reason
! for the act e those who did not know
his history. Under strict promise of
secrecy as to names, however, the police
got the main facts in the case, and they
have at length come under the watchful
eye OF News reporter.
Some years ago the young man whose
attempt at self.destruction alarmed his
family the other evening was one of the
parties injured in a great railway acci.
dent in Iowa. Taken to Omaha, he was
brought back to life and consciousness,
but beyond a sachel marked with the
initials 81. c. b." there seemed no way
at identifying him. No card or other
mark of Identification was found in either
the lining of the bag or any part Of the
valise. 1t was to be presumed that the
young man would, on regaining conscious.
ness, be able to identify himself, but this
did not prove to be the case. On the
contrary, he was unable to tell who he
was or where he came from.
His railroad ticket had been taken up,
and his sleeping car ticket had evidently
been left in the care Of the porter. He
was alive, but so far as his past life was
concerned he was dead to all practical
intents and PURPOSES. In other respects
he was bright enough, and as soon as he
recovered health went to work as day
laborer, and gradually getting money
ahead came to Denver. Fortune pros.
pered him here and in other parts Of Col.
orado. Adopting name of his own Sc
lection he grew rich, and somehow never
seemed to trouble himself in regard tc
his past life.
He fell in love with beautiful Denve,
girl, and after six months courtshiE
they were married. She bore him sew
eral children. As they grew wealthie
and they moved into better house ant
began to entertain people, he happened
to meet one day, at one of his little socia
parties, man whose face and voice at
tracted his attention. Soon after, tn
gentleman's visits to his house ceased un
accountably, and the young man rathe
. worried himself over the circumstances
but soon forgot it in the press of othe
: matters.
Some elk months ago the young ma
having business engagement started TO
, Chicago. Arriving in that city he hap
pened to meet the very man who ha
: called at his house in Denver. The ma
called on him at his hotel and asked hil
u why he was living in Denver under
: false name. telling him his real name an
revealing the fact that young girl
whom the young man had been engage
= in the States had recently died broker
hearted with watching and waiting ft
- tidinrs of lover that came not. II
y parents, too, had both died, and the ol
," farm where he had formerly lived WI
" made the subject of much litigation
IL The Young man slowly awoke to VIII
" he had been and returned to New Yol
- State, where he recovered and put
W shape the old homestead, but he felt tn
: his family required his presence We
" again. and returned to Denver. b
~ here the memory of his past life return
y 80 wildly and the thought of the chang
!" which his lost identity had wrought
= his life worried him so much that
;. could scarcely eat Or sleep.
~ But remarkable as had been his
q periences, most remarkable one was
as follow. He was recently thrown fr'
his buggy in runaway accident a
'o since that time he has lost consclousn
,al of the new life and he was found
he night not long ago to have left the G
,,r for the east. Detectives were set on
VI trail and he was brought back. In
no nc city he still denies that his wife or el
let dren belong to him and declares that
,ay will 90 back to his old love, who WI
A., for him in the East. Explanations
Wy unavailing, and it is feared that the
nd accident he met with deprived him
viii reason. His melancholy attempt at
ing eide strengthens this belief. Some E, OF
physicians, however, believe thas ~, II
brain. already put to SO much tens
an - strono enough, an operation may