New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-13
Macleod Gone
2 Days Before
Body Is Found
Som of New York Clergyman
Believed to Have Suffered
From Amnesia i'm Canada.
Where He Was Drowned
Few Details of Tragedy
Youth, Who Disappeared
From Camp Merritt i'm '18,
Alone at Time of Death

Henry Blakely Macleod. son Of the
Rev. DR.. Malcolm James Macleod. pas
tor of the Collegiate Reformed Church
Of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, had been
missing more than two days when his
body was found in the waters about
Eldon. Prince Edward Island, off the
mainland of Nova Scotia, relative
said YESTERDAY.
From the meager telegraphic details
OF the drowning last week sent by his
grandmother, Mrs. Donald Macleod
with whom he had been spending the
summer, members of the family be.
lieve he met death during one Of his
frequent spells of mental arrangement
The first news of the tragedy was
received by DR.. Macleod Friday night.
The telegram from his grandmother
said simply that Blakely had been
drowned and would be buried in the
family cemetery there.
Suffered From Amnesia
Subsequent messages. the first of
which was received yesterday, informed
the father and mother that their son,
who had been a victim of amnesia for
two years, "had wandered off" two
days before his body was discovered.
The message said his grandmother had
not been worried, as she had thought
ne would turn up alive somewhere on
the island.
A telegram said the details of the
tragedy were being forwarded by letter,
which is expected here to-day.
Henry Blakely Macleod gained wide
publicity during the twenty months
ne was missing and counted as dead
by his family after disappearing from
Camp Merritt, N. j., June 27. 1918.
During all of that time it is believed
he was suffering from amnesia and
unable to recall his name or identity.
reward of 81, 900 was offered some
time after his disappearance by his
father for any information of his
whereabouts, dead or alive.
biakeley remembered. his name last
March IN a cell in the city Jail at
Richmond. Va. He was arrested while
loitering on a railroad track. The
shock seemed to clear his mind and he
wrote to his father.
Father Claims His Son
The clergyman went to Richmond
and brought his son to Washington
where he was treated in an army hos
pltal for several weeks. He received
an honorable discharge and was taken
to the family home at ISL Central Park
West. o.
In June DR.. Macleod took his son
and daughter, Jean, to Prince Edward
Island, where their grandmother lives
to spend the summer Dr. Macleod re-.
turned September l and Blakeley was
to come home this week, as the family
is to move to Bronxville in few DAYS
DR.. Macleod had told members OF
the family and friends that he was
much encouraged over his sons condi.
ton after. the months in Canada.
Dr.. and Mrs. Macleod were nros-
trated last night and could not be seen,
member of the family said the young
man "'had never been right" He said
i Blalk ; was extremely bright in his his
studies, but that something seemed to
nave upset his mental processes about
the time he ran away from Princeton,
and since then he had been great care
to the family. He had wandered off
before while at Prince Edward Island
but had returned.
1t was pointed out that Blakelev was
q good swimmer and physically strong.
he is said to have swum across the St,
Lawrence River.
Besides his father, mother and sis
ter, he is survived by a small brother,
Malcolm James jr., three years old.