The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-23
Illness Reveals to Kelly That IA
Years Ago He Was Rogers
SCOTT TELLS ALL TO WIFE
Scott, Rich Westerner, Quits Bride to
Seek Wife - Rogers Now
"Awakes" in
Seattle.

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 3d. Curious in
stances Of lapses Of memory covering
long periods, have come to light stimuli
taneously here Saturday in the stories
OF two men whose minds have been
cleared by illness.
George Scott, rich lumberman Of
Vancouver, supposed himself a bachelor
until 1909, when he married. Now he
suddenly remembers that twenty-six
years ago he left a wife and children
in Edinburg, Scotland The other case
is that OF s. Chandler Rogers, who was
beaten so badly in New York fourteen
years ago that be forgot his name. lie
drifted here and has been known as
George Kelly. An operation has recalled
him to himself
In an the years that Scott was pill
ing up a fortune he seemed heart proof
until musical comedy company visit
ed Vancouver two years ago, He then
capitulated to Jane Patterson Of Ale
gheny, Pa. one Of its members. AL
though their ages were far apart they
lived happily. Scott finally met with
an accident which fractured his skull
and brought on, in addition, serious
illness. through which his wife nursed
him.
Memory of his youthful domestic life
came with his recovery IN telling his
wife of IL he said his name was always
George Scott and that he never had a
physical mislap or illness to explain a
loss of memory. All the same his mind
had been uttely 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 divorce court
They talked it out thoroughly and it
was finally arranged that she should
bring action for divorce and Scott re-
turn to Scotland and learn what had be-
come of his family. Should he find the
first wife he must make proper amends
to her. If she has died he viii come
back to Vancouver and the later Mrs.
Scott viii marry him again.
Rogers or Kelly was brought to the
Providence hospital here on Oct. 10. suf-
fering from an attack of acute insan-
ity, with which he had been taken in
his home in Port Berkeley. The doctors
found that a portion Of the skull was
pressing on the brain. Surgery soon re-
lieyed him and he became perfectly
normal.
lie called for pen and paper and
wrote, II am in hospital and all O.
k" addressing the envelope to Miss
Florence Douels, No AIS West Thirty
second street, New York. A postscript
TO the letter asked that Father DOherty
of the paulist society be sent 70 him.
Picking up newspaper after he had
finished his note. and seeing the date
line Seattle, Oct. 20, lall' he turned
wonderingly to Dr. Milton g. Sturgis
and his nurse and said; Am / really in
Scatter Then he broke down with a
fit Of sobbing,
He told his story when he had COM
posed himself The hospital staff think
il one of the most remarkable on rec
ord 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 at
No. AS West Thirty second street, New
York. His name was S. Chandler Rog
ers.
On May !, 1897, with boy friend and
two girls, he went to the theatre Hav-
ing seen his girl to her home he start
ed to walk to his own. AT Sixteenth
street and Eighth avenue three men
stopped him and asked for match. He
said he was no match factory and the
men pounced on him. One struck him
with a blackjack The next he knew
he was in the river, naked and swim
ming
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 awolle in the
hospital after the skull pressure had
been lifted from his brain.