The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-24
HOW A MAN WHO LOST HIS
MEMORY HUNTED HIS OWN PAST

NEWBURYPORT. January 3O.-S.
Chandler Rogers, the modern Rip
Van Wrinkle. who is a patient at the
Emergency hospital as a result Of his
sudden collapse in the Public library
building on Wednesday afternoon, re-
lated the story of his marvellous life
and double personality to Dr. Charles
Shanks of this city Friday night. Dr..
Shanks was classmate at Harvard
medical school with Dr. Milton s.
Sturgess of Seattle, the surgeon who !
performed the delicate operation on
Rogers head last October In com !
pliance with Dr. Smrgess's request,
DR.. Shanks reported Rogers condition
to the Seattle physician by night let.
ter.
Rogers had recovered so far Sat
urday that he was able to sit up.
and he walked without assistance to
chair to be photographed for The
Standard He is a large well built
fellow and his features are not un-
DlCdodhl W lOOh hBOlls lAlo JNN bielNiN
hair is slightly curled, and his cheeks
are filled with healthy color. Some
of his front teeth are missing and his
mouth is rather large.
He had just partaken of dinner
when he was photographed shortly
before l o'clock.
Gee whiz" was his only eiacula-
ton as he gave his consent rather
: hesitatingly to pose for the camera,
MY pictures are being taken every
where all over this land" and then
he slouched rather unsteadily to the
chair. He declined the proffered as
sistance of the photographer. with
the remark that he was all right and
could walk by himself.
It took Rogers nearly an hour and
a half to relate the strange incidents
which had taken place in his life.
Rogers is of the opinion that he is
only seventeen years old, and has no
recollection of incidents which occur
red during the past fourteen years.
] Tie Is SUN d llltboCllSOl IVY III -'N'
York city and he remembers how he
was struck on the head on a dark
: night. Then there is a blank and the
next incident which he recalls is be-
ing drawn out of the water
From that time on is a stretch Of
8 fourteen years in his life which is alb
solutely forgotten He remembers
J. awakening in a hospital, in his mind
= New York hospital, asking a news
paper boy for the New York World,
and when he was told that he had no
"a COPY of the World he remembers ask
ing for the Sun. The newspaper boy
he remembers, told him that he was
n a long ways from NeNS York and that
he was in the Providence hospital in
a Seattle. When his brain cleared he
was told by physicians that he was
, in Seattle, and to him it was a strange
land and he was a stranger in it, an
other personality in fact, and unable
to comprehend what had taken place
a except that he was struck over the
head and was drawn from the water
The story in itself is tragic one, but
Rogers heard the astounding facts re
vealed to him with utmost stoicism.
Seattle physicians who declare
that his case is without a parallel il
" the istory of the annals of medicine
in the United States are interested Il
him and they have since learned tina
~ he served in the United States nav
4 under the name of Kelley and wa
= married to a woman in Port Towns
@ end. Washington, whom he after
o wards repudiated as his wife and tn
S marriage with whom he IS now seel
q ing to have annulled. He was ma
= ried under the name of Kelley. o
~ his release from the Seattle hospitf
he returned to New York to seek tn
III friends of his boyhood days and tn
III associations of his earlier life. Tn
ii New York Sun assigned a reporter
attach himself to Rogers and be
some assistance to him in unraVellln
II some of the strange facts in the pal
OF MS HE WnlCn is uHhHONh W hii
- The Sun man traced Rogers
Bridgeport, Conn, where he lived III
der the name of Keene and then whe
the reporter was recalled to Ne
York on account of the pressure
business, Rogers continued his wan
erings until he reached Boston.
u The surgeons of Seattle became j
terested in the case when a man WI
. brought in from Port Townsen
Washington, who was brought to Il
hospital unable to see and unable
ITO hear. An eye specialist examined h
eyes and he recommended the ca
y to DR.. Sturgess for an operation
DIR. Sturgess operated on this mi
whose name was Kelley and took
large bone from the right side of t