MAN WITH A STOLEN BRAIN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1068, 11 July 1912, Page 4

MAN WITH A STOLEN BRAIN.

A STRANGE STORY. The following amusingly sensational story, founded on facts, but apparently not founded or founded on accurate facts, is told by “Dagoaet” in the “Referee” : Some few years ago, Joseph Warschawski—the real name is not given—a youth of humble origin, but of brilliant intellectual attainments, mysteriously disappeared trom London. His father, a working furrier in the East End of London, alarmed at his son’s long absence from home and his silence, communicated with the police. Four years ago Joseph Warschawski was found quite by accident in a wretched East Side tenement in New York. He was then a semi- imbecile, and quite unable to give any information as to what had happened to him since his disappearance. One thing was certain, and that was that he could not have arrived in New York in that condition, as be would have been rejected as an undesirable alien.

Six months ago a famous New York surgeon, whose remarkable operations had from time to time staggered humanity, died. He was killed in his own laboratory while attempting to place in the throat of a tiger cub the vocal cords of a new-born baby who had just died.

He was confident that he would be able to make the tiger talk. The mother of the baby, discovering what was happening, rushed into the laboratory and, seizing a surgical knife, stabbed the doctor to the heart. When the doctor’s executors went over his papers they found a document in a sealed envelope which was ot such a character that they felt bound to place it in the hands of the New York police. The envelope was labelled, “The case of Joseph Warschawski.”

In the document the doctor confessed that he had while in London heard ot the brilliant intellectual attainment of a poor young Polish Jew, whose father was an East End workman. He made the acquaintance of -the young fellow, and invited him to some rooms he was then occupying near St. Thomas’ Hospital. There he administered a poison to the young man which caused him temporarily to lose his memory, and with it all knowledge ot his own identity. He then took passages for himself and his victim by the next boat leaving Liverpool, and brought him saidy to New York. The doctor was a widower, with a son who, alter giving the most brilliant promise, had suddenly been stricken with brain trouble, and was rapidly approaching a condition of imbecility. A few days alter the doctor’s arrival he performed an extraordinary operation with the assistance ot a colleague and two nurses who were devoted to him and pledged to secrecy.

The two young men, Joseph Warschawski, the brilliant genius, and the doctor’s son, the partial imbecile, were placed under anaesthetics, and then, by a remarkable surgical periormance, the brilliant brain of Joseph Warschawski \yas trauslormed to the head of the doctor’s son, and the deceased brain of the doctor’s son was transferred to the head of Joseph Warschawski.

Both the young men recovered from the operations. But the doctor’s rose up from his bed a brilliant genius aud Joseph Wars-