The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-19
The Missing Man
Copyright by Lee & Shepard
Thrilling Tale of Dealing with
Hypnotic Influence and Double Personality

his aptitude for business, always remark
able, had not lessened in the least through
lapse OF memory or loss of personality
whichever ii might be called. and he was
confident, he told his partners, that very
soon he should fully recover all remem-
nrance or the past, and he hoped even of
the period when his life had been a blank
If So, he said, Il shall know what
did, whether L presented those notes after
altering them myself, at the bank. where l
how existed up to that time. What
revelation it would be to mel
That's so. Vane. I'd give good deal to
know all that myself But bless my SOUL
it's good enough TO get you back again
even II few leaves OF your life are stuck
together"
by George! that's So" said Mr.. Hen
oerson. Garter and felt like two strange
cats In lost garnet, didn't we Carter?'
amt sure about the lost garnet, but
we felt strange enough" and they all
laughed at the mistake.
Like the widening circles produced nv q
stone thrown into stream, the mystery
surrounding the bank affair at Grovedale
Wa, Was PRONE pro- OF consequence. Full particu-
Iars mad been wired through the country
entefprlSlng reporters had worked up
Columns about it for the newspapers which
they represented, and in consequence it was
widely known now that Mr.. Hamilton who
was supposed to have absconded with the
FUNDS or the bank, and to have been guilty
OF forgery as well as embezzlement, was
now at home. and exonerated from all in
tent TO appropriate the funds
IL created great excitement to find that
ne mad been suffering from a loss of per
oohdlIly; out more than dozen journals
progressed to have heard of cases resem-
ping Ii, and conjectures were rife regardinp
ms acts during the interval between his
loss OF memory and its recovery. In one
such case IL was reported, man had mar
rlep again, all unawares that his first wife
was living or, indeed that he had ever
peen married before. But when he returned
TO himself he left No TO return to No
There was some unpleasant filings AT the
convenience of such lapses from honesty
ana responsibility, or rather, at the plea
or unaccountabiiity.
"A man who could court and marry q
woman and support her afterwards by his
own labor did not differ SO much fron,
ordinary higamists. Even though he pre-
Ierreo TO nave forgotten that another wife
existed, such forgetfulness was not with
out parallel. Men often forgot the exist
e ,d OF their wives for hours or days, at
least, II not for years." said one eamst;o
journal. Then too to alter a note so that
IL becomes ten times as valuable and 70
get the money on it and spend it, is nothing
new IN a Dank cashier. But to forget ali
about Il, and impress others with a sense
OF that forgetfuness, is certainly a new
departure, ingenious and convenient. We
only nope the plan will not come to be uni
banking institutions are sufficientlv insa.
cure at the present time without innova-
lions of this Sort
This notice drove Mr.. Carter furious
thcy KNOW, Ndne, you paid the
money back, and wouldn't be cashier again
II you could, and never handle the mill
FUNDS II you can help it?''
Probably not; but even If they did that
Journal is credited with its full oIota Of
forgetfniness IL forgets whatever it is in
convenient TO remember. An article rLa
that calls attention to a newspaper where
just one would not"
Wen, l must say you bear il well
Vane." we'll
Il really care very little about it. Con-
stance manner toward me is of far more
account" 'ioio
oh, that will right itself in time" said
MI Carter, carelessly
one OF the widening circles caused bv the
local disturbance extended to the hank 81
which simon Low was cashier The djreo-
tors. awakening to the fact thar danos,t.
were being withdrawn with alarming s,sid
lty, called meeting and unanimoi5siv
decided that the interests of the hani
called for the resignation of Simon Tonr
therefore, he resigned, but with the united
expressions of good will and respect from
the officers. who felt assured of his perfect
honesty and reliability fS>
on the other hand Tony Osborn. who had
nlmseil Wlthdrawn, was asked 10 resur,a
his place in the Grovedale bank which he
did, much gratif1ed by the renewed conf
delce thus manifested. II there had beep
any feeling of suspicion IN regard to a
completely between the cashier when sun-
posed to have absconded. and Tony. it had