The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-05
BREWIN'S TWO LIVES
HAD STEPMOTHER WHEN HE
WAS N
Now That He Is Back to His old Self
He Can't Remember Her
or Sister.

NEW YORK. July 5.-Friends Of Charles
p. Brewin. the Burlington tailor who lost
his Identity and lived for four years In
Plainfeld under the name of Frank G.
johnson. would like to find two women in
this city who were regarded by Mr..
Johnson as his stepmother and his half
sister. With the return Of his real per-
s~onality, a week ago, all recollection Of
these women faded from his mind. Now,
he has no Idea even who Anna c. johnson,
the beneficiary under his insurance policy.
is or how he came to know her name. Shs
is described In a Foresters' insurance pol
icy as his sister. but Brewin, with his real
personality restored. isn't able to recall
even that. AS Johnson, the Plainfield tailor,
he Joined the lodge of Foresters there a
year ago.
Yet Mr.. Brewin's friends in Plainfleld
say that when the johnson personality
dominated him he spoke frequently of his
stepmother and his sister In New York.
They say. further. hat he used to call on
them once in. a while. and that some
times he complained that they had money
which belonged to him. When Brewin's
relatives came to Plainfleld to get him they
denied that he had any stepmother or
sister living In New York.
The tailor's friends in Plainfield would
also like to nave a memorandum explained
that has been found among the papers.
which indicates that he loaned 800 to a
New York man while under the influence of
personality No. 2. Now that personality
No. l has been restored. Brewin is unable
to recall Anything about the Transaction.
Miss Mary Brown, for whom johnson"
worked during his Plalnfeld career, re-
ceiyed a letter from him yesterday. In
this letter Personality No. l makes the
interesting request that it be remembered
to all the friends of Personality No. 2.
Here is the letter, addressed from the
home of Brewin's brother in Pavonia,
N, j.:
Dear Miss Brown-I am so happy and l
feel that / want to see you very much
to thank you for your kindness to me.
From what my brother tells me Q must
be a good Christian lady. And your
sister, Mrs. Denton, must be a good
hearted lady. and my prayer is that our
dear Lord will let his blessing rest on you
and her. My dear wife wants to see YOU
and thank you for taking such good care
of me. l want to see you all to tell you
how / thank you. l will see you on Mon
day. You said for me to stay until then.
1 don't seem to remember anything, and
1t seems to me that l have been away but
a few days. But when I look at my wife
I can see she has suffered. OF what a
change. l must stop, for my brain Is
going about 100 miles a minute. Every
body Is ready to eat me up, they are so
glad to see me. / must say good bye.
Give my love to all that ever knew F.
G. johnson. Yours with love for watching
over me. G. p. BREWIN.
Mr.. Brewin is coming back to Plainfield
to live. His physicians will not let him
go back to his old home in Burlington, be-
cause they fear that the old associations
might bring on another lapse into what
his friends say Is his second personality.
Professor James III. Hyslop. formerly a
professor at Columbia University. is study
ing the case, and wants to subject Brewin
to hypnotic Influence. In that way Pro-
fessor Hyslop believes the second person
ality might be induced to boil to the sur
face again. and Brewin would live over
again his life as Mr.. johnson. With the
second personality again dominant. the
professor believes that Johnson might
recall how 1t was that he had become
Johnson and not Tom Smith or Paul
Jones or some other personality. That,
In the professors opinion. is one of the
most interesting phases In the case.