LOST HIS MEMORY TWICE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1243, 27 September 1911, Page 5

LOST HIS MEMORY TWICE.

»r~ . ■ / ./J NBW ZEALANDL'II'S ADVENTURES. :' ' ■• . A peculiar case of loss of memory came under tho notice of tho Sydney police ln.st week, and although tho man recovered lio subsequently went away i'roin his lodghi|;s aud was eagerly sought tor by the police, who were ioarlul that lio had a' relapse, aud was wandering nlwiit tho city. • Howover, tho police received wor.i that he had ; turned up at his lodgings. On the morning of Tuesday week a porter at the Central Hailway Station noticed a man wondering aimlessly about tho < platform, and alter a whilo ho piit down his luggage—a portmanteau and' a paper ■* parcel—-on the platform. Mis actions further attracted tho attention of tho portor, who asked him where ho was going. "1 don't know," said the man, "1 have' lost my memory." The porter, linird, who, strange to say, is of (lie samp name as tho New Zealauder,. decided to, lake. - him to the police station. 1 After a time tho nwi recovered, and informed tho police that his name was William Baird, also that ho had arrived by tho Uliuiaroa from New Zealand, 'and that lio intended to go on to Victoria,, , Ho was a landholder, lie said, and was in" ' Australia for a holiday so as lo piok nil from a reaeut illness. "1 sunVr a. great tlfvil from loss of memory," tsud Air. D?iin| - ■■ ".and whilo on tho elation my old Uwiblo S returned. However, 1 ieol brtlor now, aml I'll (alec my lujraago imd btay at an hotel for a ivw days." Uaird left tho i»lioo elation aud woiit\o the Agmcourt Jlotol. Tins was a)x>ut ' midday. Hio *'fcrnn;;cr rested during (.]i e ■ early ixirt of tho allernoon, but tw.irdsfour o clock informed tho proprietor Hint ho was Boiiuj for a wftllc. That ,ras (ho, last «cn ol him. At closing hour on Tuc* day nigh; Mr. Baird had not returned and Jlr. Skimicr, tho proprietor, bopom ' in? nJarniod, rpportctl tho (iffair. Nmt \ mormng tho police were ablo to i-eimrt ' Itat the missing msuihad rctiime'd anil i was ogam at tho Agincourt Hotel,