STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY.
ALIN MISSING FOR MONTHS,
Sol Solomon, clothing manufacturer of The Bronx, New York, who had been missing since June 25th last, returned to his home a few weeks ago, after being found in a hospital in Ottawa, Canada. Mrs Solomon, thinking he was dead, gave away his clothing, and Solomon declared on his return home that "while he felt, tine he couldn’t find a thing about the house to wear excepting a kimona and a suit of pyjamas.
Solomon said he could recall nothing of his -adventures while he was missing. He remembered going info the water at Rockaway Beach last June for a swim, but he does not know what happened after that until he awoke in the Ottawa hospital to find Mrs Colomon bending over liim. He is .trying to put things together, because he believes he must have had a hard time, as he had lost £4O and had let his whiskers and moustache grow. It was a businss deal that took him to Rockaway, Solomon said, and when the man he was to see did not show up, he decided to go swimming. Several hours later his clothing was found , in his locker, but nothing was heard of him for a long time. As time passed, Mrs Solomon, having advertised for him and received no answer, began to believe he was dead. She dressed in mourning and put in a claim with an insurance company for her husband’s £B,OOO insurance, but she made no objection when the company said they wanted to search a while longer.
Then Mrs Solomon received a letter from the police in Ottawa, saying that a man picked up there had. no marks of identification, but carried in his pockets a clipping of her advertisement, which it is believed Solomon had got hold of and treasured in some.fleeting, lucid moment. Mrs Solomon went at once to Ottawa and identifidH the man as her husband. At first he did not remember even her, but as she talked to him his mind cleared, nrfd lie recalled everything that had happened before he went to Rockaway Beach. The rest is a blank to him.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 1
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363STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 1
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