SEAMAN SUFFERS AMNESIA
“Wakes Up” In New York (N.Z. Press Association— NEW YORK, June 4. Thomas Kessell, a young South African, who claimed to have travelled 8000 miles in the last two months after a drink in a Johannesburg bar, was described today by Mr R. H. Coatson. the South African Consul-General, as a seaman who had left his ship in the United States. Kessell, a Johannesburg brewery worker, had told the police that he took a drink in a Johannesburg bar on April 10 and the next thing he knew * was that he was standing in a street in the middle of New York. He carried a South African passport which gave. a Johannesburg address. The police took him to the Bellevue Hospital, where he is under observation for possible amnesia. Mr Coaton safcl that inquiries had shown that Kessell was a seaman from the ship Nordhaval, which he left in Mobile, Alabama, recently. He wandered around the country until he arrived in New York.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27987, 6 June 1956, Page 16
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