The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-21
BECOMES ANOTHER
Man FOR MONTHS
Startling Case of Dual Person.
atty Disclosed When Charles
Du Bois Regains Memory.

QUINCY, III, March 20.-A marvel
Gus case of dual personality has been
disclosed since the arrival in Quincy,
ILL.,, few days ago 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
months until the memory of his pre-
v1ous life came to him suddenly, while
ne was acting as a common seaman
on ship. The story Of his expert
ence is supported by plenty of evil
dence
Du Bots went to Louisiana seven
years ago to work on rice plantation.
Five years later he and another young
man, named Albert Carlisle, agreed to
run 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
Endymion, bound for Diego, SuarieZ,
Madagascar. The vessel was flying
the Russian flag, but Swedish was
mostly spoken on board and the cap
tain's name was Peterson.
Storm Was Raging.
When Du Bots recovered his former
SELF storm was raging and the right
side of his jaw was paining him. A
lurch of the ship had sent him sprawl
ing 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 seaman.
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 perform
subsequently was strange to him,
though he was informed that he had
done seaman's work satisfactorily
while he was in his other psychical
state.
Du Bots says the mate told him that
he, Du Bots, had gone aboard the En-
dymion at Pensacola, Fla, on the after
noon of Aug. Is, 1902, and together
with German, a Frenchman, and two
negroes had signed as sailors before
the mast. Du Bots found his own
he had not the slightest recollection
of having penned it,.
The mate also told Du Bois that the
latter had acted in a peculiar manner,
but that it had not occasioned much
comment. The Endynion, after dis
charging her cargo at the Madagascar
port, went to the island of Reunion
and next to eRangoon, British Burmah,
and finally, after several delays and
trying experiences, dropped anchor In
the harbor of Leith, Scotland, on Dec.
/ last rsi
IS Du Bots says he was paid $145, and,
he made haste to return to his home In
Illinois. He reached New York Dec.
IA, and Is now at Quincy, where his
sister, Mrs. R. o. Beadles, lives. He had
written to, her from Madagascar, and
had told her of his remarkable expe-
rience.
Has One CIew.
The only ,elew that Du Bots has re-
garding his whereabouts between that
Sunday in June, 1902 when he started
for church in Louisiana, and Aug. 10,
following when he woke to his former
self on board the Endyn1ion, was the
information given TO him by the Ger
man, who shipped as seaman with him
at Pensacola The German told Du
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