Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-01-08
LOSS OF IDENTITY.
PEOPLE WHO NYSTERloUSLY DIsAP- PEAR OR LOSE THEMSELVES.
some of Them waIk oat of Homo Circles and Are Never Heard of Again-AberrA- tioa oE Miad One of Inc Caase.-straase CA.ss of Ibi, Character.

tisa oG Mind Oas of the Caass.-strangs CA.es of 1his Character
 In a community of 2.oOO. 900 souls a
 man must he great indeed Co command g,nora! notice Tho young man who comes frum the country. leaving behind
 him happy h-yside nllod with loved ones and bringing with him only his fond mothers Bible and few necos
 saTios. Ca ny his luck in the city. comes
 unAera.dod to be quickly swallowed up
 in a whirlpool ct uuinterested. selfish 1 humanity. Humanitarians are tha ex- cepti1u here flo does uuJ i'll the ocean.
 and the simple drop he represents will not be missed when ho yauishes.
 There arc Jhousauds of dark coruer ln a great city. and in one of these he may be found dead. with marks Cf vio- lsnce upon him. The cdTuuer's 5ury may find a verdict of killed by some person unknown, and unidentified, the puCr bay finds final rgs, in the pauper's grave. while tEe loved ones at home wonder at his silence that Is never broken. Tho merclless waters surrounding the town wash uuceasingly in and 0ut Of draad. dark hooks in black. slimy places under piers and ferry slips. and objects agO of- ten found there which loving mothers and tender slsJers should not look upon There are resgrts iu the great city from whence the innocent. unsuspocting young man IS followed by the assassin There ara open pllccs where desperadoes he lu wait for victims and kill without either merCy o- remorse. and for such a plt,ance Cf plunder that one wonders that they make the venture. A great event Is but "a n.ne days wonder ,n a great city, for what length of time will the people bear iu mind the murder Uf an unknown maus
 The scvnes in the thoroughfares are kalcldoscupic. with instant changes The stories of the disappearance and wanderlugs of the people are sometimes sad. but they arc frequently amusing. In many casts alteration Of mind Is the cause Cf disappearance. and while the whole city is alarmed the object of search is innoceatly wandering among the seaHchors after him and contributing Co the hue and cry.
 Only yesterday heard of a man who came from tho west nine years ago and found himself iu Providence. 50 dazed that he lost his identity. and under the tirst name that came to his mind start. ed a business which be continued with succeSs there for SIX years One day. at the end of that time, he went Co Paw tucket un business and again lost his identity. Again be started new busi- ness and made a success uf 1t for three years when he remembered his Proyi- uence name and returned there receutly O resume hlS former OccupatiCu.
 lt was six years ago, while I was liv- ing in a fat with my aged parents. that a strange case uf alteration If mind came under my personal notice. It illus trated that the cause may be grief, while other cases show that business troables lead up Co it In the first flat lived a physician and his wife. a very eStimGble lady Of some % years. who was also prscticing physician. Both were grad uates Of medical colleges and they had their own patients. l. may be granted that the lady was Uf sound mind and fair reasoning power. The husband died very suddenly and for three days the widow remained incOnsolable. lament ing his unexpected death
 At the end Of that time she went out alone for walk She walked several miles up town. as nearly as she after ward remembered, and then turned to go home. But everything seemed strange to her and she could not decide what direction Co take. She thought of the recourse that comes to every mystified person Tn a great city and decided tO ask a policeman to set her right. But after arriving at this conclusion she could not remember the street or tho number of the street where her home was, and worse than all she could not recall her name She was not addicted to the use of liquor, as this state of affairs would indicate, nor was she of constitution ally weak intellect.
 In this dilemma, as she afterward told me, she wanted to talk to some body, just to hear her own voice, and she stopped the first policeman who came ln view. She recognized the fact that the officer might think her either drunk or crazy. but while she had en- tirely lost both her name and address from her mind she was perfectly sane on all other subjects. She asked him, first, if he knew where she lived He stared atNSaer quizzically at first. seem. ing Co want to suggest an insane asy- luIn, but her elegant attire and common sense face refuted that idea. He simply remarked that he was aS ignorant as herself Cf her address, but was non pluSed when she followed up her first inquiry by asking him to tell her name. lt was too much for the officer. He laughingly suggested that she should accompany him Co the station house, where the captain might give her the desired information. AS a last resort l she went with him.
 The captain did recognize her, --cr l when she entered the station he greeted l her as Dr. B, and she rejoicingly ex- claimed: "ThaE's it That my name. | but where do hve:" The captain had ! once presided over the precinct in which | she had lived and was familiar with the ! place If her removal He sent an officer home with her, and upon her arrival she met my mother, to whom she first told lf her strange wanderings. She has ever since been If sound mind and is today practicing medicine up town.-Phila- ielphia Times
 So It Was
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