CURIOUS CASE OF LOST MEMORY.

Lake County Press, Issue 982, 3 October 1901, Page 7

CURIOUS CASE OF LOST MEMORY.

fSenumce of ten years' penal servitude was passed at tin; Old Bailey, London, ihc other day on an Irish (inardsman, Thomas Kennedy, tor murderously assaulting Policeconstable Brewer in Hyde Park. The attack occurred on the night ot June 17, on the officer telling prisoner and another soldier named Kvans, who were accompanied by a girl, that it was lime they were in barracks. A strange feature of (lie affair is that Brewer, I hough he has made a remarkable recovery physically, has no recollection whatever of what happened on ihc 17th. Brans, who was at, first charged with tho prisoner, denied having anything to do with the assault, and could not account for two stains on his belt. Concerning (bom prisoner wrote to the police this letter:--" I have considered it. best, to explain the truth of this affair, which is -o much put upon me by 'Marlin Brans. 1 told him I would say nothing about, what he had done, but as be has put ii all on me I will let his part be known. 1 want yon, to go and get bis belt, and you will find sonic blood on ihc inside of ii, for when he came hack to assist me ho struck the policeman on the right side of the head, and then in hurrying away put his belt, on inside out. The policeman bad his back turned to him when he Hit him. He was scolding me anil punching me with his baton. The next morning he came into my room ami told me there was blood on Ids belt. I got. some of it off with a knife. A boy named Tapp saw me scrape the bell." “We consider." unanimously decided the jury, "that all the wounds wore not inflicted by Ihc prisoner.” "1 quite agree, ' said Mr Justice Wills, who tried the case.