The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-05

has just fdentified-her own, her d< A man who for IA years has b. changing from one personality to u edge of the transitfon-has just bee1 ality and has been identified beyond imaginative efforts of the fiction WI Welded to charming young wo- man last July-stark, raving mad and stone blind few months later under the surgeons knife-and then awakening, restored to sight and mind-but with IA years lapse in his memory, unable to recognize his bride of a few months, and restored to his original, lorg-forgotten per sonality,-these are a few leaves out of the wonderful experience of George Keene, or Howard Kelly.
 cognizad by ths eaica eaieS But there are many fakes" and 1t is doubtful if any of the recorded cases have been so well verified and established as this one. thanks to the identification by Mrs. Michael Roy in this city of her brothers photograph tale.
 pr. George W. Hawley of .S71 State street, friend of the surgeon who operated on Keene-or Kelly-was the means or lOCdIl0& MITE. ftOy Aele, and verifying the facts of this weird case.
 Today George Keene is in the strange position of having cOurted and welded a woman who IS practf- cally a. total stranger to him. But he has offered to remarrry her and thus close this chapter of the re- markable romance.
 Last summer one of the respected residents of Port Blakeley, suburb of Seattle, was Howard Kelly, an ern- pIoye of the Port Kelly Humber con cerns, one of the biggest firms of its kind in this great lumber center. Kelly was prosperous, had a nice home and in July welded q a very charming young woman in Seattle.
 One day in October he returned home from. work, complaining to his wife that he was suffering from a severe headache. He went out to take walk and disappeared. Worry changed to distraction on the part of his bride; she appealed to friends and searching parties secured the woods for the missing man, but in vain.
 Nothing further was heard of Kel- ly for ten days, until his discovery in the woods, stark naked, totally blind, weak and emaciated, and a rav1ng maniac. His body was bruised and scratched in a terrible manner from HIS Dllnu StIuSSlOS IuS WOOuos
 The demented man was taken to Seattle and was about to be commit ted to an insane asylum, where he would undoubtedly have ended his days, owning to his condition. But at that time the attention of Dr. Mii- ton G. Sturges aid Dr. Swift, two keen surgeons. was attracted to the case, and they decided to make an examination of the sufferer.
 Dr. Sturges noted the fact that Kelly was blind. He examined the crazy mans eyes, and inside the tior which indicates a pressure on the brain.
 This was the clue to Kelly's condi- tion. A daring operation was decid- ed upon. The two surgeons under took it and succeeded in relieving the pressure upon Kelly's brain.
 It was an anxious party that awaited by the bedside, for the suf- ferer to come from the influences of the ether. The patients young wife was one of the group and eagerly awaited the signs of returning con- sciousness.
 At last the expected symptoms manifested themselves, the influence of the anaesthetic wore off, and the patient opened his eyes-and saw. His blindness was gone. In a ads's few
 
 tIn Seattle" he was told.
 q was never in Seattle in my life," he replied.
 His remark was laid to the natural vagaries of his weak condition. He noticed the young woman at his bed side, smoothing his pillow.
 s'Who is She?" he asked.
 "Why that is your wife," he was told.
 My wife! I am not married. I never saw her before," replied Kelly.
 This astonishing and unexpected turn of affairs fairly amazed every body They found the patient re- stored to sight and mind, but appar- ently completely oblivious of the most important events of his life time.
 But the explanation soon became apparent Kelly asked for a news paper and one was brought to him. He looked at the date line-October, 1911-and could not believe his. eyes Again and again he required the oth- CTS to assure him that he was living in 1911 a. d. Fourteen years of his life were missing, for the last event recorded by his memory had happen ed in 1897.
 Then, with great effort and by slow ly linking together the threads of memory so long separated he was able to tell the story of his original l lffeAbefore he became Howard Kelly. 1
 He said that he was born in New York and that his name was Keene l or Rogers,-he couldn't remember l which. He had been messenger in |