MISSING HUSBAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9338, 6 January 1909, Page 8

MISSING HUSBAND.

WIFE’S LONG SEARCH. After nine years’ search, Mrs Harrington found her missing husband, Professor Harrington, in the Morris Plains lunatic asylum, New Jersey, where he was catalogued as “ Name unknown. No 8.” For soma time the professor was chief of the United States Meteorological Department, has been professor of mathematics at Pekin, and was one of the best known scientists in America. Nine years ago ho kissed his wife goodbye at iWashington, saying he was going to New York on a visit, and from that time until a few weeks ago he was never seen again. He had been found in Trenton, New Jersey, a wandering lunatio, and, being without means of identifying him, the authorities called him No, 8. , - Mrs Harrington sought him unceasingly, and *at last, fearing the worst, she commenced visiting lunatio asylums. Interviewed, the devoted wife said : * ‘When the mysterious patient of Morris Plains was ushered into my presence I knew him immediately as my ]Jlong-missing husband, but he did not seem to know me. ‘Why, Mark, don’t you know me?’ I usked. He only shook his head and declared that he was a single man. ‘But yon must remember your wife, Rose,’ I insisted, ‘and your son Raymond.’ Again he shook his head. ‘No, I’m unmarried,’ he answered. * You are an impostor. ‘ I cannot account for Professor Harrington’s illness. He was always one of the brightest and best of husbands. ’