LOVE CURE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 October 1924, Page 5

LOVE CURE.

FOR LOST MEMORY. DOCTOR’S EXPERIMENT. LONDON, August 15. The “Sweetheart Cure” for lost memory is being hopefully experimented with at Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth. There the doctors are engaged in coaxing back the lost memory of a •ung Irishman, who was found lying in an exhausted condition in the New Forest on. July 17. unable to give his name or any account of himself. Helping them is a lady, understood to be his sweetheart, who came from Belfast' to identify him, as a result of seeing extracts from a letter found in his pocket, in which her Christian name, Annie, was mentioned. Annie (whose surname is at present being concealed) arrived at the Boseombe Hospital on Wednesday night, and asked to see the man of mystery, stating that she believed she knew him. Dr.G. Smith, the house surgeon, thought this was an opportunity of probably reviving the lost memory of his patient. Screens were put round the bed. and the Irishman was suddenly confronted with Annie. He failed to recognise her. but she at once identified him as William Pratlev. aged 26. a single man. who lived with his mother in George Street, Belfast.

He left Ireland some months agoand was living rt Wimbledon when he disappeared. At- present Pratley is in a very weak state. In ordinary matters he is quite intelligent, but has complained during the whole time he h-.-is been in hospital of buzzing noises in the head.