A MYSTERY MAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 62, 15 March 1927, Page 10

A MYSTERY MAN

SENSATION IN ITALY

(United Press Association.—Copyright:) (Received 15th March, 3 p.m.)

ROME, 14th March. The controversy over the "mystery man." strengthens hourly, and everybody is excited over the long reports published of the progress of tho Affair. Italy is divided into two camps—Canellaites and Brunerites. Tho police are adhering to their "finger-print" guns, stating that it is possible to find identical designs in a series of sixtyfour milliard persons. Canellas's sister "says: "Don't speak to us about fingerprints, mimics, or auto-suggestion. To our certainty he is our missing brother. Wo are precisely sure, although unqualified mathematically to prove it." The doctor of the asylum says that the man, whoever he is, is no malingerer nor is he a simulator.

A few weeks ago a man who had forgotten' his identity was discharged from an asylum at Turin. He was identified by his wife, brother, children, cousins, and a parish priest as Professor Canella, who disappeared in the fighting in Macedonia in 1916. The man had not long been restored lo family life at Padua when Madame Bruneri, of Turin, claimed him as her husband, who had deserted her seven years before. The police arrested ths man and put him in gaol. Madame Canella, Canella's brother, and the priest emphatically reasserted that the man was the professor. The physical and facial similarity of the two men is said to be amazing. Both had a rib removed; each had a son of fifteen; even their fingerprints were identical. -