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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1929, Page 8

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CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 4. A young man, suffering from loss of memory, walked into tile Lincoln police station on Saturday. Inquiries elicited nothing from him save that lie Imd a wife named Lena, a family, and that lie was a carpenter. Dr. E. J. Cooke stated that the young man was not under the influence of drink, and that lie had lost his memory. His description is as follows Of thin, wiry build, with blue eyes, and dark hair; dressed in dark-grey jacket with liglit-grey trousers, and wearing a black shirt, knitted tie, and black shoes.

MAN WHO' LOST HIS MEMORY

CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 5

On Saturday night a man who had lost his memory walked into the residence of Mr F. C. Dlowei;s at Tai Tapu. He was accommodated for the night, and on Sunday was brought, to hospital where he is undergoing treatment.

He has been identified as Robert Osborne, a married man with a family of two, residing at 19, Peacock St. He is a carpenter by trade. He has not yet regained his memory and failed to recognise his wife when she called at the hospital yesterday morning. The hospital authorities are of opinion that the lapse of memory must have happened a year or more ago as no marks were found of recent abrasions.

Mrs Osborne states that her husband suffered a great deal on occasions from headaches. He was at work on Saturday afternoon and came home in the evening and watered the garden. He busied himself round the house until about 9.45 p.m. He then went out and Mrs Osborne gathered that he was going to visit his brother. She did not worry until Sunday, when she became alarmed at his- continued absence. He must have walked all the way to Tai Tapu, although he had no friends or relations in that district, and nothing to attract him there. He had been in the best of health and had had no worries either financial or domestic.