The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-31
QUEER CASES
Loss Of Memory by Two Men For Many
Years Reported 10 Seattle
BOTH Are now ALRIGHT

Extraordinary y Cases of Forgetfull.
ness-Bigamy Revealed by an Ac.
cident-The Guilty Husband Says
He is Sorry of His Forgetfulness
A Seattle dispatch to The New
York World tells the curious story
Of two instances of lapses of mem
ory which come to light there. George
Scott, a rich lumberman of Van
couver, supposed himself a bache-
lor until 1909, when he married.
Now he suddenly remembers that 26
years ago he left wife and children
in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The other case is that of S. Chand-
Ter Rogers, who was beaten so badly
in New York Ia years ago that he
forgot his name He drifted to Seat
tile, and has been known as George
Kelly. An operator recalled him to
himself.
In all the years that Scott was
piling up fortune he seemed heart
proof until a musical company visit
cd Vancouver two years ago. He
then capitulated to Jane Patterson
CT Allegheny, Pa, one of its mem
bers. Although their case were far a.
part they lived happily. Scott finally
met with an accident which fractured
his skull and brought on, in addition,
a serious illness through which his
wife nursed him.
Memory Of his youthful domestic
life came with his recovery. In tell
in his wife Of it he said his name
was always George Scott and that he
never had a physical mishap or i'll
ness to explain loss of memory. All
the same his mind had been utterly
blank as to the wife and babies in
Scotland.
Mrs. Scott didn't question his good
faith, but said his story dictated a
plain course for her, through the di-
vorce court. They talked it out thor
oughly and it was finally arranged
that she should bring action for di-
vorce and Scott return to Scotland
and learn what has become of his
family. Should he find the first wife
he must make proper amends to her.
II she had died he will come back
10 Vancouver and the later Mrs. Scott
will marry him again.
Rogers or Kelly was taken to a
hospital October 10, suffering from
an attack Of acute insanity. with
which he had been taker in his
home. The doctors found that a por-
ton of the skull was pressing on the
brain. Surgery soon relieved him and
he became perfectly normal.
He called for pen and paper and
wrote, az am in hospital and all o.
k ado. essing the envelope to Miss
Florence Douels, No. AIS West Thir-
ty-second street, New Yosk. A post
sript to the letter asked that Father
Doherty of the Paulist Society, be
sent him.
Picking up a newspaper after he
had finished his note, and seeing the
date line Seattle, Oct. 20, 1911," he
turned wonderingly to DR.. Milton G.
Sturgis and his nurse and said: Am
really in Seattle Then he broke
down with a fit OF sobbing.
He told his story when he had
composed himself. The hospital staff
think it one of the most remarkable
on record. For fourteen years, he
said, he did not know where he had
been or what he had been doing. He
was born in New York in 1880 and
lived with his grandmother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Douels, in New York. His
name was S. Chandler Rogers.
On May !, 1897 with boy friend
and two girls, he went to the theater.
Having seen his girl to her home he
started to walk to his own. Three
men stopped him and asked for a
match. He said he was no match fac
tory and the men pounced on him.
On struck him with blackjack. The
next thing he knew he was in the
river. naked and swimming.
He said he remembered clutching
at something in the river and being
dragged out, but that was the last
he knew of himself as Rogers until
he awoke in the hospital after the
skull pressure mad been lifted from
his brain.