The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-02
TELLS WHO HE IS
G. NJ. HOLMES OF ORLANDO ADMITS
HIS IDENTITY.
WAS AIMLESS WANDERER
DIR. Z. r. CoRsON EXPLAINS THE
AFFLICTION. of HOLMES.

Was Suffering With a Disease That
Brought ON COnvnIsiOns-He Had
No Control of His Mind When He
Reached the City and Registered
at the Pulaski House Under the
Name of Thorne-His Physician
Says That Holmes Purpose Was
Not to Deceive or Perpetrate
Fraud-Dr. Corson Explains Away
What Was a Peculiar Case.
With his mind again in a healthy
condition G. NJ. Holmes of Orlando
frankly admits his identity, and may
leave the Savannah Hospital and re-
turn to his home to-day. With his rea-
son completely restored the man who
under the name of Thorne, was stricken
i'll at the Pulaski House, is anxious 10
clear away the mystery that has sur
rounded him.
He talked freely yesterday with DIR.
E. r. Corson, who has been his attend
ing physician, and asked that he be set
perfectly straight with those who know
him in Orlando. DIR. Corson says that
his patient intended no deception or
fraud when he registered at the hotel
under an assumed name and furnished
the following signed card explaining
away what has been mysterious case:
las the case of Mr.. G. M. Holcomb
who registered at the Pulaski House
as Thorne, has been freely discussed in
the Morning News, and about which
some mystery seemed to harg, it is but
right that the real facts in the case be
made known, especially as they clear
Mr.. Holmes of any intended deception,
or attempt at fraud. AS stated in a
dispatch from Orlando, Fla, Mr..
Holmes is we'll known there, and has
always had the esteem of his fellow
citizens. Mr.. Holmes certainly pro-
duced a good impression upon
the attendants of the Savannah
Hospital, where he was taken after be-
ing found unconscious in his room at
the hotel.
when the nature of Mr. Holmes
trouble could be made out it was very
evident that he had been in dazed
condition before the attack of convul-
sions which occurred the evening of
the same day he arrived at the hotel,
these commissions leaving him in an
unconscious and apparently dying con-
dition. Even after he had returned to
consciousness his mind was still very
foggy, and it was only yesterday that
the lOS HlleQ anu ne was iliuiSSi1
again. AS he states, much is a blank
to him. He left his home without any
motive. without any end in view. He
was an aimless wanderer. He drifted
to the Pulaski, without any object, put
down on the register the first name
which came to his dazed mined, and
went to bed early in the evening, feel
ing that he was ill, but not having a
sufficiently clear mind to take in the
situation.
HE is naturally much distressed
over what has occurred, but he is in
no way accountable. Unfortunately
the nature of his disease is such that
the same thing may occur again.
''He is a perfectly sane man, and
freely realizes his condition, and as far
as can see, is the lasS one to attempt
any fraud or deception.
His past record is good, as the
community in which he has lived can
testify, and his future record will be
equally as good, so far as any con-
scious or intentional wrongdoing is
concerned. AS the physician who
treated him while here, I have felt it
my duty to explain his case. and he
very gladly gave me all missing infor-
nation to enable me to clear his char
acter"