The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-12-04
NOISE De LEON At HOME.
WILL UNDERGO OPERATION IN
REMOVE PRESSURE FROM
BRAIN.
ieiis What he Remembers OF Things
Ihat Happened Before and After
NE Lost Consciousness - Memory
Blank for -Four Months.

Noise DeLeon, the wealthy Atlanta
contractor who mys.eriously disap-
peared last August, turned up in a
hospital in sydney, Australia, about
the first of September, and got back
to his home, 744 Piedmont avenue.
last Thursday, is preparing to go to
private sanitarium and have an op-
Grafton performed on his skull.
Il must have been hit on the head
and beaten up" he told a Journal re-
porter yesterday afternoon, for when
walked up in the hospital in Sydney
they had my head all wrapped and
pandaged. am in very weak condi-
ton, both mentally and physically.
expect TO go to a private sanitarium
next Monday for an operation. l
haven't had the time or the strength
since l got back to look into my busi
ness affairs. The first thing I'm after
Is to get we'll again. Yes, it is good
to be back home"
A beautiful baby girl with a wealth
Of golden curls came down stairs bum
died in her coat and warm hat and
mittens for a walk with the nurse.
She ran to her father. where he sat
in the hall, and putting her arms
around his neck, kissed him and hug
ged him.
"Bye-bye, papa she said, as she
turned in the doorway to throw him
kiss.
His sunken, burning eyes followed
her as long as she was in sight, and
then film of tears rose in them. and
h said again:
1T Is good to be back home"
Very little. and that very vaguely,
can Mr. DeLeOn recall Of what hap
pened between his departure last Aug
ust and his strange awakening from
spell Of brain fever in a hospital on
the other side of the world.
He left home last August after
trying illness To go fishing and hunt
ing few weeks In the Michigan
woods. The last he remembers is that
he went to baseball game in Chicago
with a friend.
1t was awfully hot in Chicago" he
saiys, land the heat must have got
me. in my weakened condition. The
next thing I knew i woke up in the
hospital in sydney"
The hospital authorities told him
that they found him in the quaran-
tine hospital They said he had been
taken from the stecrage of a tramp
steamer, along with Japs and Chinese.
When the quarantine hospital washed
off the coal CRIME and found that he
was a white man instead of collie"
they made arrangements to remove
him to the other hospital, it being a
sort of sailors home. He was wear
ing, when taken from the steamer, a
pair of overalls, an undershirt, and
q cholera belt" this being simply
strip Of cotton with a buckle and "A
pocket. In the pocket were found
few greenbacks Of American mon
ey, a few Japanese coins, and a little
A thirty-second degree Masonic
ring. which Mr.. DeLeon wore on his
right hand when he left home, was
gone, and the finger was crushed. A
ring which his wife gave him, worn
on his left hand without ever once
being removed since he put it on a
few days before their marriage, was
also gone, and that finger was like
wise bruised and cut
The back of his head was battered
his right arm was laceratcd, his legs
were bruised, and one Of his toes was
broken.
The steamer on which they found
him was "a ''tramp" that had cleared
Ii'lll ' NbuNpuNtI, II. -, ana calico al
ports IN Japan, the Philippine islands,
the South Sea islands, and at sgd
ney
From about September / until the
middle of October, he lay delrious in
the hospital bed. and when finally he
recovered his right mind the first
words he spoke were about a cable
gram To his wife
They told him that he had tried
three weeks before. TO tell them about
1t, but they could not understand him
And they told him that in his de-
lirium he had said bitter things con
corning the Japanese
There were Masons in the hospital,
H..