MYSTERY OF IDENTITY SOLVED
New Zealander’s Long Loss Of Memory BELIEVED CASE OF DUAL PERSONALITY 7 By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received May 15, 10.55 p.m.) Melbourne, May 15. A mystery concerning a patient brought to a Melbourne hospital over a week ago who was unable to remember anything of the past seven years and who was found unconscious in a street in tlie suburb of Preston has been solved. The man has now been identified as John O’Sullivan, of Napier, New Zealand. He is an engineer, but is unable to remember anything about his training. He intends to search for details of his missing past. When he recovered consciousness last Saturday he refused to believe he was at Melbourne, but he recalled that he had worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya and contracted malaria. He also recollected that he had lived both as O’Sullivan and Fitzgerald somewhere. Doctors believe it to he a genuine case of a dual personality.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 11
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