DRUGGED AND DESPOILED

Northern Advocate, 19 August 1929, Page 6

DRUGGED AND DESPOILED

CYREGi MOTTMEM<HIY FATES AGAIN> . SYDNEY, August 2> For nearly a fortnight Cyril,- Mpt-t, tossed restlessly in one of the wards of the Goulbum Hospital, suffering from ia complete; loss; of-memory; Doctors and nurses patiently tended ■ him, and the police, ragde widespread to establish his identity. i Then hia ; memory suddenly returned, and ho recalled that he was a prospeejtor from, Wust'er'n, Australia, who had | come to Sydney to. get married, but had! been drugged; and! robbed by two strangers iit a, Sydney hqtol. Then he ha 4« been bundled; aboard the. southern ipail. train. arid finally he had found; himself pn the Goulbum, railway sta-tiqnrrra-man withquit a name. On Wednesday night he had- recovered; sufficiently to leave the hospital at Guplburn, and- he boarded a night train to; return to ; Sydney, where-, .upon his; arrival, he was : arrested and 'Charged; with being an idle and disorderly person, ■ ■ ■ i itept night Cyrils Mott tossed jpst as Irpstlpssly upon, a hard, wooden, form, in a, cell at the. Central Folicp Station,: with, pply ppiicenien. to; attend to hiswants. He again suffered a ipental; l.breakdown, and; was unable to remem|bpr his name. He- recalled, however, •that he had< been, in Goulburn, and rp-. jraarhed;. ‘‘l’ll. soon be: down, ‘the, mine; } again, earning sojnp more money,’ 7 a. ■stateinent which was received; with apjprpval. by Detpctiy.p, WeGermott, who jaryested- him in the Hjaymarkct disStrict. . ■ An effort was made to prompt his : (memory, blit without avail. The i (police, whp. hope tp-be able, to solve ! Ihis strange contplamt, have taken his ( finger, points to. aid- them. i