The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-07
|MI MOVEMENT IN
 JAYNE'S CONDITION
Negro PorterS Here Are Con- fident They Saw Wealthy
 Illinois Man
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Chicago, November 6.-Improve- ment was noted today in the condi- ton of J. Howard Jayne, Monmouth, Ill, business man and former legis- lator, who was missing two weeks before he entered an Evanston hospi- tai under the name of John B. Long," Jayne's memory was grad ually returning, according to hos pital attendants, and while his wife is here with him and inauguratine a new investigation in connection with her belief that business enemies lured him away from home and that he possibly was drugged and beaten. Jayne has not yet told a coherent and complete story.
 Jayne, whose resignation was pre- pared some time before and was accepted in his absence by the di- rectors of the Monmouth Stone company. of which he was presi- dent. apparently had more money when he arrived at the hos pital than when he disappeared on October 2i. At that time. Mrs. Jayne said, her husband had S100 At the hospital he had S234. Whether some body paid his expenses while he was travelling in Chattanooga and Bir- mingham and possibly other cities before returning to Chicago and go- ing to the hospital is point Mrs. Jayne is having investigated
 Jayne has declared a man named "J. B. Long," the same under which he registered at the hospital, fol- lowed him about and struck him. He has a confusion on the back of the head and another near the spine. Physicians, however, believe he will completely recover from the attack of amnesia. which has clouded his nnemorys
 Further investigations of the pr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the Mon mouth case, ]. Howard Jayne and John B. Long. in Birmingham Mon day disclosed two negro porters who were confident that they had seen the man, whether Long or Jayne remains to be determined. The evil dence assuredly pointed to the man on the Illinois train en route to Chicago as being Jayne.
 Jayne, who believed that he was Long. boarded the train in this city. It has not been determined whether Jayne was here alone or with Long, and possibly others, reasonable surmise It seems certain that Jayne had not passed the two weeks or his disappearance alone.
 The descriptions furnished by the negroes tally generally, but both were toe vague to clarify the identi- ties of the two men, as both appear to have been of the same general appearance.
 A porter at the Young Mems Chris tian association declared that within the last two weeks a man claiming to own a mile in South America had been there. He told this negro that he was always generous with porters and that he was rich man.
 The man, probably Jayne. who passed the night of October 1 at Hotel Caswell, 240O Fourth Avenue, was similarly garrnlous to porters. The servant who brought his bag from the station after the man had registered, also walked to the Ter minal station with him the fellow ing morning in time to get the noon train for Chicago
 Talked About Wages lXMEo this porter the man talked
 but wages. He asked the negro
 Nv much lie earned and informed
 m he could receive a. higher wage Chicago. He asked the porter if he would like to go to Chicago.
 Details of the conversation with both negroes corresponded.
 The porter at the Y. M. c. A. sad he did not recall the visitors name although he had been told it. When asked if it was Long" the negro decided it was.