The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-08
The Case of IDon't
Remember
BY NJ. QUAD
Copyright, 1914, by Associated Lit
erary Press.

James Shine was sixteen years old
when he started out one morning to go
fishing. 1t was a walk of mile to the
lake. and between the village and the
lake ran a railroad.
The youth ranked with the best for
smartness, both mental and physical,
and was In the best or health ana
spirits the morning he set out with his
fishing tackle. What happened before
he got there was told by the engineer
of freight train. One at the crossing
could see the trains while they were
yet forty rods away. and no accioene
had ever happened there.
on this occasion. as the train APP
proached. the engineer saw young
Shine kneel down on the track to tie
his shoe. A whistle of warning was
sounded, and, in fact, the whistle was
kept going until the pilot of the engine
struck the boy and threw him a full
fifty feet.
Young Shine was picked up for dead,
but he wasn't dead. He was nowhere
near IL. He hadn't broken bone and
only one big bruise. He seemed as
good as ever physically in fortnight
but there was a great change in him
mentally.
You have read of person being
knocked sillyT' Well. the boy had so
suffered. There wasn't hurt on his
head, but his memory was gone. He
didn't know who he was, and he could
not remember any one else. 1t was
form of aphasia with curious fea-
ture about it. His mother would say
to him:
James. your name is James Shine
Eyes, 1t is James Shine" he would
reply.
Five minutes later IL asked his name
he would reply that 1t was Peter Jones
or something else.
At the age of twenty James Shine
got lost He was sent to sawmiil
half a mile away, and in some way he
got turned around and walked out INTO
the country. 1t was a year before ne
was heard of again. He had made his
way to a point a hundred miles away
and hired out to widow as rarm
hand and after few months married
her. He had given her a dozen diner-
ent names as his right one.
When the widow was reproached
with having married a young man
only half her age and one plainly on In
his head she replied:
well, 1 thought 1t would be good
thing to get married again. and, i tell
you. he rs the best worker / ever had
on the farm"
No effort was made to get the young
man away. as he seemed quite content
there. but one day he walked of with
out a word TO any one and brought up
in a town 200 miles away. he got
work in a brickyard. giving still other
names. One day his name was DAVIS
the next Barnes. the next Meadows
and SO IL went OF course people won
dered about II, and the police invesu'
Gated him. but as be was good work
er and never made any trouble ne was
not interfered with.
a
name OF Bird young Shine married an
other widow. This one had I'VE chill
dren. and when taken to task for her
capture she replied:
Il noticed he was rather queer in
the head. but / guess all men are that
Do you think a widow with ave chill
dren TO clothe and feed is going to
turu a would be husband down just
because be appears to be a bit dotty
The wives had a row over the one
husband, and the husband moved on
He went about forty miles away and
obtained work in a planning mill and in
less than four months was married 70
his third widow. He had started In
with a widow and bad = preference for
that class. he had lived with No. ;
about four months when Nos ] and z
came down on him. He was arrested
and tried as q bigamist but before bis
trial had taken place be broke out 81