LOST MEMORY.
MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS. A NEW ZEALAND ENGINEER. CASE OF DUAL PERSONALITY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 15. The mystery concerning a patient who was admitted to * the Melbourne Hospital more than a week ago after being found unconscious in a street in tiie suburb of Preston, who could not remember anything of the past seven years, lias been solved. Tiie man has been identified as Mr John O’Sullivan, of Napier, New Zealand. He is an engineer,liut cannot remember anything about liis training. Mr O’Sullivan intends to endeavour lo trace the events of his past. When he recovered consciousness last Saturday he refused to believe lie was in Melbourne, but recalled that he had worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya, where he contracted malaria. Also Mr O’Sullivan recollected that he had lived both under that name and the name Fitzgerald somewhere. Doctors believe it to be a genuine case of dual personality.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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156LOST MEMORY. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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