FORTUNE FORGOTTEN

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 29

FORTUNE FORGOTTEN

MAN'S LOSS OF MEMORY

An unusual case of loss of memory which carried its victim back '52; years to the spot where ' he. first found shelter when he landed in the United States as an. Armenian immigrant youth, was disclosed on the return of Moses .Gulesian to his home in Newton, Massachusetts,.3 suburb of .Boston. In the interval Mr. Gulesian, now 71 I years, of age, through thrift and in-, dustry had amassed a fortune by deal-' 'ing in Boston real estate and had become one of that city's , important adopted sons. He had been threatened with abduction by extortionists, -and when he disappeared after; attending a dinner of a patriotic organisation at the University Club, it was feared that the threats had been carried out;; The passage.of time without ransom demands deepened the mystery, which did not end until his son-in-law, Mr. James L. Beck, received word that Mr. Gulesian had recovered his memory in a Bowery mission, New York. Appearing there and being unable to tell anything about himself, he was given food and shelter: such as that institution has been dispensing to homeless derelicts for many years. It never seeks to pry into the identity of those-it helps,-and cared for Mr. Gulesian as a matter of course. It was not until two days later that Mr. Gulesian's memory returned when he-heard a pianist playing a composition by his wife, Grace Gulesian,. entitled "Washington." Even then he did not disclose his identity, but merely asked permission to telephone to Bos- ( ton. This was contrary to the mission Tules, and he was referredrto the Salvation, Army, which notified his family of his safety. , . '" Mr .-Gulesian'recovered sufficiently to make the trip home alone, and except for his unkempt; appearance,.heightened by, two days*;* grow^h.%1 jt>f - beard, appeared noneHhe worse for his experience when, he,arrived in, Boston.*' He •was unable to remember anyfnihg that had happened after he left the dinner in Boston. * He had no idea what led him back to the spot in .New Yorfc where he 'first found shelter In the United States so long before.