SEVEN YEARS’ GAP

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 7

SEVEN YEARS’ GAP

THE O’SULLIVAN CASE

IGNORANT OF DEPRESSION. NOW READING AVIDLY. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received May 18, 10.40 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 18. John O’Sullivan, of Napier, New Zealand, whose case of mental blankness is puzzling tho Royal Melbourne Hospital authorities, did not know that there had been a depression, that King George was dead, or that there had been a war in Abyssinia. At present he is reading avidly to bridge the seven years’ gap iu his memory. A mystery concerning a patient brought to a Melbourne iiospit-al who was unable to remember anything of the past seven years, and who was fount! unconscious in a street in the suburb of Preston, has been solved. The man has now been identified as John O’Sullivan. When he recovered consciousness on Saturday week he refused to believe lie was at Melbourne, but be recalled that lie bad worked on a rubber plantation in Malaya and contracted malaria. He a:»<, recollected that he had lived both as O’Sullivan and Fitzgerald somewhere.