El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-15

f(K TO use-I can't pick up any Of
M those fourteen years that dropped
out Of my life when the doctors
lifted that bit Of bone out Of my skull.
Isn't it enough to send anybody
up in the air and keep him there? Here
lie on a hospital bed with a silver lid
over a hole in my head. waited On by a
wife I never saw before. and with people
dropping in to ask how George Kellys'
getting along-'George Kelly Of Seattle.
well-known citizen-when all I know
about myself is that I'm Chan Rogers, way
back in 1897, when a New York thug bat
ted me over the ear and threw me into the
Hudson River"
In all the records OF submerged per-
sonalities." say the surgeons who operated
on George Kelly. there is no parallel to
this case-no such hopelessly complete
blotting out Of the whole latter half Of a
mans life
George Kelly, who came to Seattle year
ago last July with honorable discharge pa
pers which showed that he had served
eleven years in the United States Navy
who invested several thousand dollars OF
savings so well that he is worth tidv
little fortune. who had worked industri-
OUsly in a lumber mill at Port Blakeley
and who two months ago married Miss
Agnes McFarnald, wandered on into the
woods two weeks ago.
When found ne was delirious and partly
paralyzed. Taken to the Providence Hos
pital. Seattle. the surgeons discovered a
depression in the skull above the right ear
evidently the result of an Old wound. To
the increasing pressure on the brain of
the depressed bit Of bone they attributed
his condition.
They operated successfully, relieving the
tortured brain-but marvelIousIy, also
blotting ont all the years that had elaDsed
since the original injury and leaving the
patient just where he was on losing con-
seriousness from it fourteen years before.
When Kelly awakened from the effects
Of the anesthetic his mind was clear-but
he was again boy Of seventeen. His
young wife had been called into the room
and was leaning over smoothing his brow.
He pushed her away, demanding:
who is this womang'
"Wny. George" she said, hurt and
alarmed. 1T is Agnes, your wife"
Kelly laughed. My wife! Go away.
you're some Broadway soubrette On!
but my head aches!"
"Oh, Ceorgel" exclaimed his wife, don't
vou recognize me? We were married only
two months ago by the Presbyterian minis
ter-and we've been so happy
Presbyterian minister" repeated. the
convaleseent, angrily, "and I a good Cath
ole! Go away Send for Father Doherty."
Then. while the doctors and his wife
stared at him wonderingly. he went on;
"Send for my sister, toe. She is Miss
Florence Douels No. 41S West Thirty
second street" He fell back on his pill
low. adding: And notify Silver Dollar
Smith-heIl come a-running."
One of the doctors who had practised
On the East began to understand, and
said: Those places are in New York.
Now. Kelly, just rest quietly
"Of course they are in New York" said
the patient, sitting up again. And then,
suspiciously: Say, where am J. any
howT
I'm the Providence Hospital. Seattle,
washington" they told him. Nov,
Kelly
why do you keep on calling me Kelly"
demanded the patient, now thoroughly ex-
cited and what am I doing in Seattle?
I'm Chandler Rogers, of New York City.
Ask Silver Dollar Smith, or any of the
west Side gang. Don't talk stuff aheut
Seattle. Now I remember. and my
cburn took couple Of girls to the theatre
on Fourteenth street last aight We took
sen home after the show, and as l was
walking along toward my grandmother's
Mace. on West Thirty-second street, man
iumped out from the shadows and asked
me for match.
q Go on SAYS L I'm no match factory
And then he hit me over the ear with
billy. He ard his gang must have thrown
me into North River then, for 1 remember
swimming to a dock-yes, and then
vent off my head, for that's the last I re-
member. But that was last night Oh!
but my head aches"
Although his papers showed that he had
served eleven years in the United States
Tavv he knew nothing about the Spanish
American War.
During his two years in Seattle he had
ridden to and from his work on trolley
cars. yet the Broadway cable system was
a fresh marvel TO him
Less than a month ago he helped pro-
mote an aviation meet, yet when a doctor
snoze Of recent feats Of the bird men he
v-inlzed knowingly at the supposed effort
TO "string" him
At length. when Kelly was strong enough
IN hear the shock. the doctors explained
to him his condition and the lapse Of years