The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-23
TWO men BECOME
FORMER Sci Y ES

Seattle, Wash. October 22-curious
instances of lapses of memory cover
ing long periods. have come to light
simultaneously here in the stories OF
Two men whose minds have been
cleared by illness
George Scott. a rich lumberman Of
vancouver. supposed himself bach
elor until 1909, when he married Now
he suddenly remembers that twenty
SIN years ago he left 4 wife and chill
dren in Edinburgh. Scotland. The other
case is that of S. Chandler Rogers.
who was beaten so badly In New York
fourteen years ago that he forgot his
name. He drifted here and has been
known as George Kelly. An opera
ton has recalled him to himself
In all the years that Scott was
piling up fortune he seemed heart
proof until musical comedy COM
pany visited Vancouver two years ago.
He then capitulated to Jane Pattcr-
son. of Alleg heny. Pa. one of its mem
bers. Although 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 tell
ing his wife of 1t he said his name
was always George Scott and that
he never had a physical mlshap or
illness to explain a loss OF memory
All the same his mind had been utter
ly blank as to the wife and babies in
Scotland.
Dictates Plnin Course.
Mrs. Scott didn't question his good
faith. but said his story dictated a
plain course for her. through the
divorce court. They talked il out
thoroughly. land 1t was finally ar
ranged that she should bring action
for divorce and Scott return to Scot
land and learn what had become OF his
family. Should he find the first wife
he must make proper amends to her
II she has died he will come back TO
Vancouver and the later Mrs. Scott
viii marry him again
Rogers or Kelly was brought to the
Providence Hospital here on October
10. suffering from an attack OF acute
insanity, 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 relieved him. and he be-
came perfectly normal.
He called for pen ana paper and
addressing tho envelope to Miss Flor
ence Douels. 4lS West Thirty-second
Street, New York. A postscript to the
letter asked that Father Doherty, OF
the Paulist Society, be sent to him.
Was Swimming I'm Hudson.
Picking up newspaper after he had
finished his note. and seeing the date
line Seattle. October co. 1911" he
turned wonderingly to DR.. Milton G.
Sturgis and his nurse and said: Am
really in Scatter" Then he broke
down with n At of sobbinG.
He told his story when he had COM
posed himself. The hospital staff
think 1t one OF the most remarkable
said. he did not know where he had
been or what he had bean doing. He
was horn In New York In 1850 and
lived with his grandmother Mrs, Eliz-
abeth Douels. at AIS West Thtrty-see-
ond Street, New York. His name was
$. Chandler Rogers.
On May /. 1897, with a boy friend
and two girls. he went to the theatre.
Having seen his girl to her home, he
started TO walk to his own. At SIX
teenth Street and Eighth Avenue
three men stopped him and asked for
a match. He said he was no match
factory. and the men bounced on him
One struck him with a blackjack The
next he knew he was In the river.
naked and swimming,
He said he remembered clutching at
something I'm 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 had been lifted from his
hnain.