Loss Of Memory.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1910, Page 4

Loss Of Memory.

A MAN'S TWO MONTH'S TIIAAI

Two months ago ;i well km«.vn l«<\idin<i 111:111, .Mr .John I!ji.t't c.if. Carter, mysteriously f 1 i.-n ]i j »t*n re-! troin his home, and nothing was hoiird fit liim until recently. when ho put lviniseif in the of the polico nt Oxford. Mi' was then in «in emaciated condition, and there is little doubt that he has been tnampi 11 <j; the country during the whole period. At the time of his disappearance he was beardless. and had a .slight moustache and short lrii. hut on being discovered he was wearing a heart! and lii.s hair was 11 r iuici 11 over his shoulders. Judging from lii.s appearance. Mr Carter must have passed through a terrible experience. His clothes were torn, his hoots were worn through, and he must have slept out. night after night. He cannot give any definite account of his movements during the past two months. He remembers that once he found himself in the Kast-end of London, and 011 another occasion about three weeKs ago. Ire I'enicmhered being at Portsmouth, where lii.s sou lives. When in London his memory appears to have returned to him for a brief period and he intended' visiting frTends. but his memory again failed him olid ho remembered no 111010 until lie found himself at Portsmouth. There he went in search of his son, but once more his memory forsook him, and he hod m further recollection of his wanderings until lie\ discovered that lie was at OxfoiVl. Carter does not know how jivas fed during these two months. B appearance Ins so 'altered that B'ns impossible to recognise him li tlio description circulated by I police. He is a man of helm 00 and 70 years of age. and I lived in Heading for many