The Irish standard., 1912-08-17
OPERATION SAVED Mind
MAN LRARNe NAME AFTER PovA.
TEEN BLANK .YGAa0.;
Condition Duo to Attack Of Touahe
and Being ohanohaIed-Rsoovsr-
Ing memory Of Former pays,
He Forosts Former Llfe.

New York-s. Chandler ROgerR,
who was beaten by toughs. thrown In
to the Hudson river and shanghaied
by British sailing ship on the night
OF May 10. 1897. and who spent the
next fourteen years Of his life with
out the slightest recollection Of whom
he was or what he had done before
he was injured, came hero from Sc
attic tho other day to search for hia
sister. His mind was cleared last %
tober after surgeons in Seattle had
removed fragment Of bono that wa
pressing on his brain.
Rogers. who is now thirty-one Year,
old, told his story to a reporter.
My principal business In life" he
sand, now is to find tho sister ct
haven't seen for nearly IL --ears.
have reason to believe that she 10 In
bridgeport, Ct, and l am going there
tomorrow. Mrs. Michael Roy, who
lives in Bridgeport, has identified. am
told, photograph Of me as that Of
her brother. Maybe she In mistaken.
but hope not.
After / was operated ON In Set Ito
everything l had been doing for four
teen years was wiped out and l re-
membered who was and what I had
been doing before l was hurt In this
city at Eighth avenue and Sixteenth
street. ! remembered that my right
name was 8. Chandler Rogers and
that my home was in New York, al
though they told me at the Seattle
hospital that l had been known az
George Kelly for many years.
Il was a newsboy in New York and
later n messenger boy. Once in a
while ] got chance to box in the
aters and made a little money. On
May 1. 1897, got u day Off from my
work and that evening with friend
and two girls went to show. Aft
err the show I took my girl home and
then started for bed, but at Eighth
avenue and Sixteenth street three men
stopped me. 1t was pretty dark and
] couldn't sec their faces. One OF
them asked me for match. told
him | wasn't match factory, and he
made n pass at me. tried to hit him
with brass knuckles I was wearing,
but another of tho three slugged me
with n blackjack.
when l came to was trying to
keep afloat In the Hudson swimming
desperately and nearly blind from the
pain and shock of my hurts. man.
aged to catch hold Of piece Of piling
and screamed for help. That's oil I
recall definitely. have been told by
the doctors that I revealed to them
after the operation In Semitic that I
was shanghaied that night by Brit
'sh ship, that was badly hurt by the
mate and that had all sorts of ad.
ventures in tho next fourteen years
under the name Of George Kelly.
suppose they are right, but can't re-
member what did as Kelly.
There's young woman out in Sc
attic who says that am married to
her. If that Is true she Is In a mean
sort Of position. She married me as
Kelly and have shed the name and
personally Of Kelly forever"
| Rogers identity was established by
n curious circumstance. As George
Kelly he was living last October ut
Fort Blakely and working in lum-
Der mill. On the evening OF Tuesday.
October 10th, Rogers-or Kelly-left
homo for a trip to Mill Town. He
hadn't been feeling well and his wife
was worried about him. After order
ing grocoricr at a Fort Rlakely store.
! he dtsappeared Three (iayn later ho
was found naked In forest near Port
Hlakely crawling or his hands and
knees nnc barking ut dogs that were
annoying him. He was taken to the
! Providence hospital In Seattle and was
+. the doctors found, unable to speak CO.
! herently or to see. On October 18th,
the operation was performed which
relieved pressure OF his braia, re-
stored the power OF speech and the
ability to see and which gave him
! back also his former identity.