EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10158, 7 February 1911, Page 7

EXTRAORDINARY STORY.

'A remarkable case of loss of memory was detailed in the Hull Bankruptcy Court the other day, when William Temple, a middle-aged' man, lately in business as ; a commission agent, was examined by the Official Receiver. In February last Temple went to London on business. He remembered walking . along Euston Road, but had no recollection of anything further until he found himself lying in a wooden hut in Australia. Asked-'.what''lie did there, he said he was helping with the'''harvest in New South Wales, that he did not •know'why he went there, and had no' recollection of going. Temple added that it was in November when he found himself in a 'Bunk in the hut, the other occupant of which was a man who told him he had fallen off a load of hay and had -been" rendered' unconscious. In reply to a . further question, Temple said he had been.living and working in Australia without knowing' it. He was wearing the same trousers as in. London, and found his gold watch, but the other jewellery was missing. He remembered calling at the St. Pancras Hotel. He simply went on working in Australia, and was known there as "Jim Thompson." Eventually he wrote to his cousin in England as to his affairs, and was told that they -were- in the hands of the Receiver.' The latter said he had received a letter from a farmer named Morley, who said he had employed a man named' Thompson on his farm ,in Australia. The Receiver pointed out that the deficiency was £1,500, and the case was'adjourned for inI quiries.