The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-12
Philadelphia Invalid Is Reunited
with Family After Recover
ing Her Identity.
SHE LED DOUBLE LIFE.
Not Knowing Who She Was,
Became a Nurse Till Awak-
sned by Husbands Death.

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SAhADUPHIA,J July 1.-THE strange
eessy Of how . woman suddenly resained
~ memory. lost to her for three years,
~ reading In the papers Of the death Of
~ husband and then how che spent
Q year IN mute agony. wondering II her
onodrsn would take steps TO have her
oA3udcsd insane. II she revealed herself
- them. was unfolded. to-day by the
eeuEn to her Philadelphia homo. at ses2
0aSosr street. Of Mrs. Elisabeth J. A.
9. Anthony. She had been mournsa a.
cad. after her disappearancs four
voars ago. and her husband had died
oP1sv1ng for her after three years Of
osAruhins.
Nh. Anthony. . sweet faced. cray
oAorsd woman Of sixty years. tells her
OOA story Of che sudden biotting out Of
n ssooilsotion Of her identity and the
oesuFso Of fear that came TO her when
eAs suddenly found the loose thread Of
~ Sssvnsr existence.
8sP husband was engineer Of airard
coalsss: their married life had been
oosai. They had lived to see their chill
1rsn grow TO maturity and marry. One
80. Or. George Conquest Anthony,
Sved nsarty. on Hassl avenue. On the
H16h4 Of Feb. .. 1908. Mrs. Anthony. left
~ homo to take . birthday gift to
D. Anthouy's little daughter.
0gcAME A NURSE AND STARTED
NEW LIFE.
Che never reached the home Of her
con and to-day. Mrs Anthony cannot
sxvlain why. She only remembers the
NIGHT was bitterly cold and that after q
Iaoss Of time she found herself alone in
Q strange city. She did not even know
Ne name Of the city until she inquired.
~ recollection Of her past. her many
happy years Of married hfe and the
eovs Of children that had been hers was
Owept from her memory.
ohs had some vague notion she had
been svtcted from her home. She found
no. In her purse. Not knowing where
to turn to support herself. Mrs. Anthony
applied at hospital for a position al
nurse. Though she had never had train
Ing In nursery she showed the dexterity
and knowledge Of q veteran. II was
- II the queer twist Of her mental life
that had robbed her Of tho past had
also endowed her with fully developed
gdft for new profession.
Mrs. Anthony continued nursing in
Baltimore while her husband ana chill
dren In Philadelphia left no stone i'm
turned to md her. II she read In the
papers accounts OF q missing Mrs.
Elisabeth J. A. c. Anthony they mean,
nothing to her. She was successful, won
the confidence Of some OF the best ply
sicians In Baltimore and was happy
save for the appalling consciousness
that somewhere on the trail of her past
life . desdfall had dropped. hiding
everything.
HUSBANDS DEATH RESTORED
HER MEMORY.
Then. three years ago. the trained
nurse read Of Q man who had died IN
Philadelphia. grieving for his wife who
had mysterfously disappeared. Like 9
nash the veil of the past was torn. Mrs
Anthony remembered everything.
Then came a great fear upon her. Shs
did not believe aphaaa had been tn
agent Of her strange plight; she feared
rather. that II she returned to her chill
dren they might have her examined a
to her sanity. Tho old woman. yearn
fng to clasp her children once more II
her arms. waited and battled with he
fears for q year.
Then, when she read her husband
estate had been divided among the chill
dren, Mrs. Anthony revealed her secre
to friends In wilmington, Del. She wen
to visit them two weeks ago and there
on her friends advice. she called he
.aop thu phyAciau. on the telephone an,
revealed herself to him.
The reunion followed and Mrs
Anthony returned TO her old home.