The Press., 1914-05-13
IheCase of IDon' t Remember
 By M. QUAD Copyright, 1914, by Associated Lit
 ecary Press.

James Shine was sixteen years old when he started out one morning to go | fishing. It was 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 of health and spirits the morning he set out with his | fishing tackle. What happened before he got there was told by the engineer | of a freight train. One at the crossing could see the trains while they were yet forty rods away, and no accident had ever happened there. On this occasion, as the train ap- l preached, the engineer saw young Shine kneel down on the track to tie his shoe A whistle of warning was l 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 it. He hadn't a 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. z You have read of a person being "knocked silly?" We'll. the boy had so suffered. There wasn't q hurt on his held. but his memory was gone. He didn't know who he was. and he could not remember any one else. It was a form of aphasia with curious fea- ture about it. His mother would say to him:
 James, your name is James Shine"
 'Yes. it is James Shine," he would reply
 Five minutes later if asked his name he would reply that it was Peter Jones or something else.
 At the age of twenty James Shine got lost. He was sent to a sawmill half a mile away, and in some way he got turned around and walked out into the country. It was a year before he was heard of again. He had made his way to a point a hundred miles away and hired out to a widow as farm hand and after few months married her. He had given her q dozen differ cnt names as his right one.
 When the widow was reprOached with having married young man only half her age and one plainly off in his head she replied:
 "Well. I thought it would be good thing to get married again, and, l tell you, he is the best worker l 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 off with out word to any one and brought up in d town POO miles away. He got work in q brickyard, giving still other names. One day his name was Davis. the next Barnes, the next Meadows, and so it went. Of course people won dered about it. and the police inVesti- gated him. but as he was a good work CT and never made any trouble he was not interfered with.
 After few months and under the name of Bird young Shine married an- other widow. This one had five chil- dren. and when taken to task for her capture she replied: ~
 q noticed he was rather queer in the head. but 1 guess all men are that. Do you think d widow with five chil- dren to clothe and feed is going to turn a would be husband down just because he appears to be 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 ill q blaming mill and in less thln four months was married to his third widow. He had started in win a widow and had preference for that class. He had lived with No. 5 about four months when Nos. 1 and ? came down on him. He was arrested and tried as a bigamist, but before his trial had taken place he broke out of jail and made long skip and went to work ill a livery stable. Here he gave twenty different names in twenty days. and many people thought him a fugi- tive ~~m justice, but as he was quiet and industrious he was not bothered.
 There was only one widow in the town, but in q few months she had been sought out and courted and mar ried. After a bit No. heard about the others and had the bigamist jailed. This time he went to trial. When ask ed on the stand if young Shine had seemed a sensible, rational person to her she replied:
 "I can't say he did"
 But you married him?'
 ".But I'd been trying for six long years to catch husband and was clear 
 It was the opinion of doctors who ex- amined the husband that he was nei ther morally nor legally responsible for his acts. Each one of the four wives offered tO'take him back, but of course the law could not permit this.
 The question what to do with the of fender came up. A number of doctors swore that he was half a fool, and he was sent off to state asylum. There he proposed marriage to one of the fe- male cooks. and an escape, an elope- ment and a marriage might have fol lowed had not the man been taken i'll and died. On the day of his death he seemed quite rational, and in talking with the doctor he said:
 '"They say that have married four different widows"
 "Yes."
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