The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-26
"A DUAL
PERSONALITY
Rice Planter Found Himself a Com.
mon Sailor.
STRANGE LAPSE OF MEMORY
Young On Bois Suddenly Became An
other siHn-Faii on ships Deck
In storm Restored Recollec-
ton OF Previous Career.

Quincy. Ill. Dec. pa marvellous
case OF dual personality has been dis.
closed by the arrival here OF Charles
Du Bots. who is twenty-eight years old
and whose family home is in Gibson
City, Ill He became. fguratively
speaking, another man for several
L onths until the memory Of his pre-
vious life came to him suddenly while
he was acting as common seaman on
a ship The story of his experience
is supported by plenty Of evidence.
Du Bots went TO Louisiana seven
years ago to work on a rice plantation.
Five years later he and another young
man named Albert Carlisle agreed to
run a rice plantation on shares near
Gueydan, La. One Sunday morning in
June, 1902, Du Bots says he got in his
buggy to go to church in Gueydan
While on the way he suddenly dropped
out Of existence so far as his memory
was concerned. When the memory OF
his former career returned he was 400
miles from the United States coast and
was on the full rugged sailing ship En-
dymion. bound for Diego. Suariez, Mad
agascar The vessel was flying tie
'Russian dag baf swedish was mostly
spoken on board, and the captains
name was Peterson
Found Himself at sea.
When Du Bois recovered his former
self storm was raging. and the right
side Of his jaw was paining him A
lnrch Of the ship had sent him sprawl
ing on the deck The shock Of the fall
had caused him 10 regain the memory
Of his career, but at the same time he
was bewildered BY his strange sur
roundlngs and by finding himself a sea
man.
He was attempting to collect his
thoughts when the mate Of the ship
ordered him to make fast the sails. but
the work seemed so new 70 him that he
required instructions. Every task
which he was ordered to perform sub
sequently was strange to him. though
heEwas Informed that he had done sea-
mans work satisfactorily while lie was
IN his other psychical state
Du Bois says the mate told him that
he (Du Boisl had gone aboard the En-
dymion at Pensacola, Fla. gu the after
noon Of Aug, rs, 1902, and, together
with a German, a Frenchman and two
negroes. had signed as sailors before
the mast. Du Bots found his own sig
nature on the ships book, though he
had not the slightest recollection Of
having penned it.
The mate also told Du Bots that the
latter had acted ia a peculiar manner,
but that il had occasioned not much
comment. The Endymion after dis
charging her cargo at the Madagascar
port went to the island Of Reunion and
next to Rangoon, British Burma, and
finally, after several delays and trying
experiences, dropped anchor in the har-
bor of Leith. Scotland. on Dec last
Du Bois says he was paid $l45, and
he made haste to return 10 his home in
Illinois. He reached New York Dee.
IA and last Friday arrived here, where
his sister, Mrs, r. O. Beadles, lives. He
had written to her from Madagascar
and had told her Of his remarkable ex-
perience
The only clew that Du Bois has re-
garding his whereabout between that
sunday in June, 1902, when he started
for church in Louisiana. and Aug IS
following, when he woke to his former
self on board the Endymion. was the
information given to him hy the Ger
man who shipped as seaman with
him at Pensacola