Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-06
MIND LONG LOST
MAN Is CLEARING
Mother VIII Eancate Her Son,
Recovered After Years, as
IN Days of Boyhood
CONVINCED OF IDENTITY
Mysterious IL r r. Auns Accom-
psnfr1eut an Mrk PtEir Sings
Hymn He lEzrnc5 - Chfih

ChiExn. H., June 6-CDnfoT-s OF
home and n mothe's care were be-
slowed yesrRrdHT upon Earl W Ties,
known during seren years OF mental
DARKNESS n the mysterious u r r"
HIS mo1her. Nrx Il 4 P7+R5a- @ sos
GrUr1zn6 park preFz-@8 10 sPaH TIE
lapse Of years for the Ss-yEa--old man
Lt111e BY little suggestions Of les
exper1enres as q boy and and man
were broaxh- back 70 hin At each
question his face lighted up with pleas
IRE and recognition and he spoke the
syi1ables -Eyl- They are AL he can
zrt1czIate-
The mystery man recognized Rob
en- Ellsworth former miner OF Reno.
New. Vao read Of his Identification and
called at the Pitkin residence. Al
though he had changer. Ellsworth
said there was no doubt but lies was
the man he had known during the days
of the RsEhide boom" in 1905.
Tells Story Of Her Sons Life.
Mrs. Pftkfn told the story OF her
sons life. turning from time to time
10 him for corroboratiOn-
He vas born Sept II. 1877. in St
Joseph MO- she said, but soon after
he vac taken 10 farm in Kansas
used to teach him Methodist hymns, and
he knows them now"
Mrs. Pitkin sang Sweet Hour OF
Prayer" and her son, mis- eyes bright |
with recognition, hummed an accom- |
pzniment She then recitsd a prayer |
which she had taught her children In |
stantiy the man raised his paralyzed |
right hand TO the position Of prayer |
and bowed his head.
Later We moved to ST. Louis" con-
finued Mrs. Pitkin, where my husband |
died ] was a young WOMAN Earl
was IL years old Shorty afterwards /
We came to Chicago and lived in En-
glevood, where he was graduated from
the high school One OF his teachers,
Miss H. s. HanTy, has identified him.
BE remembers much Of those days"
Remembers Worlds Fair Ship.
The mother turned TO her son and
asked IL he remembered the battle
ship" Illinois built in the lake at the
time OF the worlds fair. He nodded
his head vigorously When a diagram
OF e popular conundrum was drawn he
laughed
Later he went to st. Louis, where
for eight years he was a clerk for
Swift & Co." said Mrs. Pitkin. He
then saved enough money to study
mining engineering and went TO Cali
fornia and Nevada He worked at the
Boni Claire mine in the Grapevine q
The last time he came
home was in 1906 We were living at :
,2l3 GroyeIand ayenue"
Long Subject TO Headaches t
I'm the spring of 1907 he came west a
Nth 5000 in a money belt around lais p
waist" she said He was going TO re- Il
ay me for money had given him to I
,uy an interest in a mine. He came v
y way of Minnesota For some time v
le had been suffering from severe :
eadaches.
How long had you had these head =
ches7" asked Mrs. Pitlzin OF her son.
He held up four fingers and nodded r
hat he meant five years.
He was on a train near watseka, :
linn. when he was stricken He was
ken to a state hospital there and, ..
ep. for nearly six years a
Fled to Escape Operation. u
They operated on his brain, and 81
hen be found out they were going to
srform a second operation he escaped
ONE man provided him with railroad
IRE TO Chicago. and he was picked up, -