Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-08-24
HAS A DOUBLE LIFE.
STARTLING CASE OF DUAL PER.
soNALITY rs DISCLOSED.
Charles Du Bots Becomes Another Nan
for Months, Then Suddenly Re-
gains Memory Of the Past
Through an Injury.

A marvellous case Of dual personal.
" has been disclosed since the arriv.
Ell IN Quincy, Ill, q few days ago OF
Charles Du Bols. who is Is years old.
and whose family home is in Gibsoa
City, III. He became. hguratively
speaking, another man for several
months until the memory Of his pre-
viOus life came to him suddenly, while
he was acting az q common seaman
on a ship. The story OF his expert
euce is supported by plenty Of evil
dence.
Du Bots went 20 Louisiana seven
years ago TO work on a rice planta.
ton. Five years later he and another
young man, named Albert Carlisle,
agreed to run a rice plantation on
shares noar Gueydan. La. One Sun
day 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 ex.
istence 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 Endymion, bound for Diego,
suariez, Madagascar. The vessel was
flying the Russian flag, but Swedish
was mostly spoken on board and the
captains name was Peterson.
When Du Bots recovered his for
mer self a storm was raging and the
right side of his Jaw was ~paining
him. A lurch Of the ship had sent
him sprawling on the deck. The
shock of the fall had caused him to
regain the memory Of his career, but
at the same time he was bewildered
by his strange surroundings and by
finding himself a m
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 to him
that he required instructions. Every
task which he was ordered to per
form subsequently was strange to
him, though he was informed that
he had done seaman's work satisfac-
torily while he was in his other
psychical state.
Du Bots says the mate told him
that he, Dubois, had gone aboard the
Endymion at Pensacola, Fla, on the
afternoon Of August Is, 1902, and to-
gether with a German. q Frenchman
and two negroes had signed as sailors
before the mast. Du Bots found his
Vwn signature on the ships books,
though he had not the slightest recol.
lection Of having penned 1t.
The mate also told Du Bois that
the latter had acted in q peculiar
manner, but that 1t had not occa-
stoned much comment. The Endy.
mion, after discharging her cargo al
the Madagascar port, went to the is
land Of Reunion and next 70 RangOOn,
lBrutish Burmah, and finally, after
several delays and trying experiences
dropped anchor in the harbor Of
Leith, Scotland, on December 1 last.
Du Bots says he was paid s145, and
he made haste to return to his home
in Illinois. He reached New York
December IA, and is now at Quincy
where his sister, Mrs. r. o. Beadles
lived. He had written to her from
Madagascar. and had told her of his
remarkable experience.
The only clew that Du Bots has re
garding his whereabouts between thai
Sunday IN June. 1902, when be start
ed for church in Louisiana, and Aug
ust Is, following, when he woke t.
his former self on board the Endy
miou, was the information given e
him BY the German, who shipped a.
seaman with him at Pensacola. The
German told Du Bots that he first saw
the latter working on a fishing smack
They met and became friends soor
after.
The only other experience that d.
Bots ever had in the way Of his mem
DRY leaving him was a couple Of week.
before the date Of his long disappear
ance. He says he vas in Gueydan
la. and then all vas blank until h
found himself on a pier in Galveston
Tor