Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-08
KIMMEL VICTIM
OF AN ASSAULT?
Cranial Operation, Declares
Mystery Man, Has Restored
His Memory.
BANKER AND EX-C0NVICT
Recalls the Details of an Attack He
Blames for II Years of Mental
Darkness.

Chicago, May S.-Dual personalities
like the DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde of fic-
ton seem to be possessed by the man
who says he is George Kimmel
The studious physician of unques-
toned probity and the maniacal fiend
two distinct characters in one who
figure in the strangest OF the stories
of Robert Louis Stevenson-were re-
ferred TO yesterday by Kimmel when
he told what his life has been.
For 81 years he was sane, conser-
vative, alert, careful banker and the
possessor of many friends, he said.
Then blow on the head changed him.
He was no longer a man of honor. He
eventually became convict and
known as Andrew J.. White. For ii
years he was a second, though modi-
fed, Mr.. Hyde. Today he again is
himself through the success of a sur
gical operation performed a week ago.
TELLS PART OF STORY.
For the first time since he entered
Robert Burns hospital, Kimmel-if he
terday and made public a partial story
of his life. The salient facts, however,
and the names of the three men whom
he says slugged him and caused him
to lose his memory, will not be told I'M
til the mother of George Kimmel, who
brands this man as an imposter, starts
her case in st. Louis this month for the
recovery of $4,000 from an insurance
company in which she says her dead
son held a policy.
IF you remember the story OF DR..
Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde, you can under
stand my plight" said the Kimmel
claimant after IA years OF darkness
have again regained my lost person
ality; my better nature has asserted it.
self. Can you understand the sorrow
and anguish the thoughts of those
years bring TO me? We all have am
billions. | had mine. And the realiza-
ton that IA years have been wasted
is discouraging.
REMEMBERS EVERY DETAIL.
Il now remember every detail Of the
assault which changed my life. know
the names of my assailants. Their at.
tack had been carefully planned.
Il was slugged in Sixteenth street,
st. Louis, in July. 1898, after having
been taken there, drugged, from the
Midland hotel, Kansas City.
Il had $500 in the American Nation
a! bank of Kansas City. One OF my
enemies telephoned in my name and
had it taken TO the Midland hotel.
Since this operation remember count
ing that money when It was given me
by the cashier. now remember drop
ping a coin as counted. And this was
picked up by the cashier and returned
to me.
WAS BANK CASHIER.
Another fact that has come back 10
me since the operation is my return to
Niles, Mich. in 1894. where | became
cashier OF the First National bank, tax.
ing the place Of George Howard, who
was believed to have been drowned
in lake near the city"
Kimmel declared he had been rob
bed by his enemies He said also that
he could not account for the $25,0GG
life insurance policy which the mother
Of George Kimmel is now trying to col
lect upon the ground that her son il
dead He said he held only Sc coo 81
surance and that the remaining $4,000
must have been taken out by his e=>-
mics before they put him away"
II is doubtful If the Kimmel claim.
ant will be sufficiently strong to appear
when the third trial of the suit opens
| this month in St Louis.