The sun., 1909-01-05
this MAN has LOST HIMSELF
HIS NAME AND PAST 4 BLANK
SINCE DECEMBER 10.
Remembers Things He Learned at school
and Through Travel but Can Recall
Nothing That WIN Help Him to Iden-
tIfy Himself or Notify Friends.

and Through Travel but Can Recall
Nothing That win Help Him to Iden-
tlfy Himself or Notify Friends.
New HAVEN. Jan, 4-Letters from
many cities ami persons fr m various
parts Of the country have come to Grace
Hcsoital in this city IN the last month
in the hope Of Identifying the man who
vas brought there unconscious on De-
cember 10.
According to the hospital physicians
and nuis 8, the unidentified man is
AIMED. talks French and German
fluently, appsars u b. a pers IN OF re-
tinem AMI has evidently travelled
extensively
The man cannot remember his name
nor can he give the sligit'st clue TO his
pas. He is about rs years Of age. has
brown eyes and hal" and a short brown
mi ache He is little over feet tall
and weighs about iSj pounds. He was
picked up by a policeman at night in
Meadow street not far from the railroad
station on December 10. H. was lying
in Il doorway and the policeman thought
lIe was drunk lie Lad 10 bc carried
bodily to the police wagon. Al police
he tadauarters all efforts TO arouse him
FROM his stupor roved futile Jus;
as he was about to be carried into police
cell for the nigh; on the suppc stion that
ne was intoxicated one OF the officers
took a olos,r look declared he was not
drunk and that he .erned to lie suffering
from some injury. The police surgeon
Dr. Seymour L. Spier, was called, and he
had the stranger removed TO the hos
pital The physician said the man had
not been drinking.
At tho hospital the man remained
unconscious un;i the following afternoon
WHOM he let out Il gel that was heard a !
through the hospil, He was deirious
Tor ten days, was put IN room by
himself ana was unGer restraint
most of the time. He did much singing
during this period and frequently Ca.led
out about Minnie and the baby" IL
was then decided to operate at the base
Of his skull, and portion OF the bone
that was pressing on the brain was re-
moved. The following day the stranger
regained consciousness but his past was
o blank AL that he could recall, he said,
was that lie had been put in room and
Of having 10 fight many men and beasts
When ask ed about Minnie and the baby
he dec ared that he had never heard OF
any such persons.
At times. in talking with the nurses,
hc quoted VAR 'us authors, tod OF many
moves and seemed well verstd in al the
operas. When asked II he had ever heard
anv of the OPERAS with which he ia APP
parently familiar lie vaguely replied
Il don't know.
He described minuteiy streets in Lon
don, Berlin and the leading cities OF
EUROPE, and 70. d his nurses OF the scenes
on the Rhine, When asked when he had
visited these various PAGES he replied
Il can't remember
Nnnln lew Days he described 10 one
of his attendants the Yellowstone Park
in Wyoming, and when asked how he
gained his information Of the various
Interesting spots in this country he re-
piled Il don't know"
On Christmas, when towering violet
plant was given 10 him, he evidenced
great pleasure and said Why, that's
an Alpine violet. They only grow In the
AIS without cultivation He went on
to describe minutely the care that was
necessary to cultivate the plants in TINS
country, and TO The astonishment Of his
nurse delivered lecture on the care
Of that and other plants he seemed to
be very familiar with botany, and when
closely questioned on the habits OF vari-
Gus towering plants answered the ques-
tons intelligently. To tho query whether
he had seen vioIe's in bloom in the Alps
he shook his head rep ying l don't know
The mans head showed many scars.
There is one large scar that has con-
vinced his attending physician, DR.. Will
lam p Lange, that he has been trepanned
before In discussing the case to-day
Dr. Lange said
1T il one OF the most remarkable cases
Of which have ever heard. 1t differs
from the usual cases inasmuch as this
mans mind is a blank where usually the
person can remember what happened
until he was injured: that is, il an accident
is the cause OF the injury. / think that
mt one time, not longer than q year ago,
he sustained a fractured skull We have
operated on his skull in tbs hope Of re-
storing his brain TO its proper functions,
but as yet he has not regained his faculties.
There is a possibility that In time the
Of events in his past may unravel
itself and In that way he can become ac-
quainted with his life."
There is no clue whatever to aid In
At the time he was taken
TO the hospital he was dressed in good
clothes, wore expensive shpes and was
had 81 cents and nothing else. The de- |
tectiyes in examining his clothes even |
ripped out the Innings for some mark of |
but they could not find the |
clue as 70 where they were made |
or sold.
Various schemes have been tried by the |
hospita, authorities to flno out IL the man |
was purposely hiding his identity, but |
those in charge are positive that the man
is as much puzzle dover his identity as
are they.