Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-05-25
HAS A DOUBLE LIFE.
STARTLING CASE OF DUAL PER
soNALITY Is DISCLOSED.
Charles Du Bots Becomes Another Man
for Months, Then Suddenly Re
gains Memory Of the Past
Through an Injury.


A marvellous case OF dual personal
ity has been disclosed since the arriv-
al in Quincy. ILL.,, a few days ago Of
Charles Du Bots, who is 2s years old,
and whose family home is in Gibson
City. IN. 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 as a common seaman
on a ship. The story OF his expert
nee is supported by plenty OF evil
denee.
Du Bots went to Louisiana eve
years ago to work on a rice planta
tion. Five years later he and another
young man, named Albert Carlisle,
agreed to run a rice plantation on
shares near 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 80 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 vas 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 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 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. a Frenchman
and two negroes had signed as sailors
before the mast. Du Bots found his
own signature on the ships books,
though he had not the slightest recol-
lection Of having penned it.
The mate also told Du Bots that
the latter had acted in a peculiar
manner, but that it had not occa-
stoned much comment. The Endy-
mion, after discharging her cargo at
the Madagascar port, went to the is
land of Reunion and next to Rango0n,
British Burmah, and finally, after
several delays and trying experiences,
dropped anchor in the harbor Of
Leith, Scotland, on December l last.
Du Bots says he was paid $145, and
he made haste to return to his home
in Illinois. He reached New York
December il, 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 that
Sunday in June, 1902, when he start
ed for church in Louisiana, and Aug
ust Is, following, when he woke to
his former self on board the Endy-
mion, was the information given to
him by the German, who shipped as
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 soon
after.
The only other experience that Du
Bots ever had in the way Of his mem
DRY leaving him was a couple OF weeks
before the date of his long disappear
ance. He says he was in Gueydan,
La. and then all was blank until he
found himself on a pier in Galveston,
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