STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 8 (Supplement)

STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY.

MAN MISSING FOR MONTHS. Sol Solomon, clothing manufacturer of The Bronx, New York, who had - ' been missing since June 25 last, returned to his home a few weeks ago after beinj found in a hospital in Ottawa, Canada. Mrs. Solomon, thinking he was dead, gave away his clothing, and Solomon declared on his return home that while he felt fine he couldn't find a thing about the house to wear excepting a kimona and a suit of pyjamas.

.Solomon said he could recall nothing of his adventures while he was missing. He remembered going into the water at Rockaway Beach last June for a swim, but he does not know what happened after th;i t until he awoife in the Ottawa hospital to find ilr«. Solomon bending over him. Hu is trying to pnfc things together, becauao he believes he must have had a hard time, as he had lost £40 ' and had let his whiskers and moustache grow.

It was a business deal that took him to Rockaway, Solomon said, and when tho man ho was to see did not show up ho decided to go swimming. Several hours later his clothing was found in his locker, but nothing was heard of him for a long time. .As time passed Mi's. Solomon, having advertised for him and received no answer, began to beievo he was dead. She dressed in mourning and put in a claim with an insurance company for her husband's £8000 insurance but she made no objection when the company said they wanted to search a while longer. . Tljen Solomon received a letter from' the police in Ottawa saying that a msii picked up there had no marks of identification, but earned in his pocket* a clipping of her advertisement, which it is believed Solomon had got hold of and treasured in some fleeting, lucid moment). Mrs. Solomon went at once to Ottawa and identified the man as her husband. At first he did not remember even her, hut as she talked to him bis mind cleared and fin recalled everything that had happened before he went to Rockaway Beach. The rest is a blank to him.