MISSING HUSBAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13948, 2 January 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

MISSING HUSBAND.

WIFE'S LONG SEARCH. AITER nine years' search, Mrs. Harrington found her missing husband, Professor Harrington, in the Morris Plains lunatic asylum, New Jersey, where he was catalogued as " name unknown, No,. 8." For some time the professor was chief of the United States Meteorological. Department, had been professor of mathematics at Pekin, and was one of the best-known scientists in America. Nine years ago he kissed his wife good-bye at Washington, saying he was going to New York on a short visit, and from that time until a few weeks ago he was never seen again. He had been found in Trenton, New Jersey, a wandering lunatic, and, being without means of identifying him, the authorities called him No. 8. Mrs. Harrington sought him unceasingly, and at last, fearing the worst, she commenced visiting lunatic asylums. Interviewed, the devoted wife said "When the mysterious patient of Morris Plains was ushered into my presence, I knew him immediately as my long-missing husband, but he did not seem to know me. 'Why, Mark, don't you know me?' I asked. Ho only shook his head and declared that he was a single man. ' But you must remember your wife. Rose,' I insisted, 'and your son Raymond.' Again he shook his head. 'No, I'm unmarried,' he answered. 'You are an impostor.' I cannot account for Professor Harrington's illness. He was always one of the brightest men and best of husbands."