The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-01-17

of that name Then being addressed
as DIR. HARDWOOD came glimmering In
his BRAIN Corporal Morgan was the
next Identity he felt, and this gays
way to Julius, colored man.
Great heavens" he exclaimed, 81:
| there negro blood in my veins?'
He examined his nails and the palms
| Of his hands, but could see no traces
of such an inheritance. This comfort
ed him..
How 1t happened Omnium himself
could never explain. He remembered
jotting down the names as they oc
CURED to him of persons he seemed tt
have been, and he recalled addressing
note to Miss Thompson beginning
'@The information as to myself prom
ised you is Then followed the name
Omnium, after which he had writer
the word alias, adding six other names
He had evidently got confused at 8
consciousness of having been so many
different persons and did not know
what he was doing, for the next morn
ing Miss Thompson received the list
of his names through the mail
what is it?' asked a friend who
was with her at the time, seeing heI
| turn pale.
Don't ask mer' moaned the poor
girl.
do tell me-"
my lover confesses to six aliases
He's a crook"
Miss Thompson's friend after labor
ing with her for hours finally induced
her to promise that she would never
see her lover again and that she would
send his note to the police.
The escape of Omnium from the in
stitute occasioned' CONSERVATION among
| the professors who had constructed
him. They could not know what he
would do and feared some trouble
would result from his being at liberty
for which they would be held respon
sible. One morning Dr. Tunshutter
Phi. D., while looking at the morn
| ing paper noticed that man had beer
arrested with half a dozen aliases tc
his name. He was puzzle to the pc
| lice. Neither the name Omnium mol
any of the aliases except that of d
| murderer who had been sentenced to
| be executed and of whose execution
there was no record was known to the
authorities. No one knew what to dc
with him.
DR.. Tunshutter threw down his pa
| per, called a carriage and drove al
once to the Office of the superintend
ent of police. To his request that
| Omnium be returned at once to the
institute, the superintendent said that
the return must be made legally and
asked for the mans Identity.
How can tell you that?' cried the
professor. There are parts of more
than fifty people in him."
do you mean that you can't give
me his legal nameY
HE has none"
SIS he white or black?"
81 can't say; there is faint trace
of black in him"
HE is a man, isn't hep
mot entirely. There are cartilages
of several dogs, the skins of two rats,
and much sewing was done with cat
gut"
For heavens sake, take him awayi'
cried the superintendent. Il wouldn't
have the responsibility of either hold
ing or giving up such a monster for
the world. I'll turn him loose, and
you must have some one from your
COMPOUNDED institute here to take him.
If he gets loose again he'll get into
court, and it will require a United
States supreme justice to establish his
legal status"
Omnium was released from custody
that afternoon and Gagged by the keep
ers of the institute. He managed to
get hold of a lawyer, and his case
came up before the court Seven at
torneys, three judges and large num-
Der of jurymen lost their minds In the
struggle to establish his legal iden-
tity. While these efforts were being
made he one day became very much
! excited and fell dead The profess
sors made a postmortem examination
and found some of the catgut with
which the lobes of the brain had been
sewed had decayed.
Then a law was passed forbidding
the construction of any more combi-
nation men.