LOST HIS MEMORY.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1918, Page 4

LOST HIS MEMORY.

A remarkable case of mental aberation has just come under tlie.nnt/cc of the Dunedin detective knee. Between 2 and 3 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon (says the “.Star ”) an elderly man called at a bank in the city and requested change in silver ami gold tor a bundle of notes running into nearly ,£6OO As the request was such an unusual one, and the man’s manner appeared stiange, the bank officials declined to give him the change, and telephoned to the police station. When a detective appealed on the scene the old man had disappeared. Next morning the detectives gathered further information about the incident, as an official from another bank informed Detective-Sergeant K nip and Detective Hammerly tli-1 an old man had come in and asked lor change of £4O worth of notes. This official gave him change for £4 worth, and then, noting some symptoms of ii responsibility, told him to come back later for the ba ance. The old man left the notes and did not return. From the information given them by this officer, the two detectives presently located the old man. who lives in one of the suburbs with his relatives. They pioeeeded there and interviewed him. He remembered nothing whatever of the circumstances, but upon producing his money from various horns of paper in which it was wrapped, he found that he was .£36 shoit—just the sum he left at the bank. The detectives thereupon prevailed upon the old mhti to come to town with them and his relatives and to deposit the bulk of the sum in one ot the city banks.