Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-08-22
OPERATION SAVED MIND
oond1tIon Due 10 Attack - Tou0l,o
aNd Being OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
me Memory d Former Day.,
Ne Forpets Former Lie

b. British sailing ship on the night
q May 10. 1897. and who spent the
next fourteen years Of his life with
ont the slightest recollection 0f whom
hs was or what no had done before
he was injured. came here from g.
attic the other day to search for hin
sister. His mind was cleared last 90
tober after surgeons In Seattle had
removed fragment Of bono that was
pressing on his brain.
Rogers. who is now thirty-ons years
Old. told his story to q reporter.
NY principal business In life," he
sand. now IL to ind the sister that !
haven't seen for nearly IL years. I
have reason to believe that she ID In
Bridgeport, Ct. and am going there
tomorrow. Mrs. Michael Roy. who
lives in Bridgeport. has identified. am
told, photograph OF me a. that Of
her brother. Maybe she - mistaken.
but ! hope not
After was operated on In Seattle
everything had been doing for four
teen years was wiped out and re-
membered who was and what had
been doing before was hurt In this
city Ut Eighth avenue and Sixteenth
street. remembered that my right
name was 8. Chandler Rogers and
that my home was in New York, ~
though they told me at the Seattle
hospital that ] had been known -
George Kelly for many Year,.
i was nswsboy in Now York and
later messenger boy. Once in =
while | got chance to box In the
aters and made little money. On
May !. 1897. got day on from my
work and that evening with friend
and two girls went to show. Aft
or the show took my girl home and
then started for bed, but ct Eighth
avenue and Sixteenth street three men
stopped me. It was pretty dark and
| couldn't see their faces. One Of
them asked mo for q match. told
him ] wasn't q match factory. and he
made pass at me. I tried to hit him
with brass knuckles ! was wearing.
but another OF the three slugged me
with . blackjack.
When 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 al I
recall definitely. have been told by
the doctors that revealed to them
after the operation in Seattle that l
was shanghaied that night by . Brit
ish ship, that was badly hurt by the
mate and that had all sorts OF ad-
ventures In the next fourteen years
under the name Of George Kelly. I
suppose they are right, but can't re-
member what did az Kelly.
There's ! young woman out in Be-
attic who says that | am married to
her. II that 10 true she ID IN . mean
sort Of position. She married me O.
Kelly and have shed the name and
personally Of Kelly forever
Rogers identity was established by
curious circumstance. Al George
Kelly he was living last October aH
Fort Blakely and working in q lum-
Dor mill On the evening Of Tuesday.
October 10th. Rogers-or Kelly-left
homo for q trip to Mill Town. He
hadn't been feeling well and his wife
was worried about him. After order
Ing groceries at Fort Blakely store,
he disappeared. Three days later he
was found naked in forest near Port
Blakely crawling on his hands and
knees and barking at 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 on his brain, re-
stored the power Of speech and the
ability to sec and which gave him
back also his former identity.