A SENSATIONAL STORY.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 6

A SENSATIONAL STORY.

A sensational story is told of thorny sfcerious disappearance of a young j Polish Jew, Joseph Warsehawski, a lad of brilliant intellectual attainments, ; living with his father, ;i working farrier, in tho East End of London. Tho police wero unable to trac-o tho missing youth until four years ago,- when ho was found quito by accident in a wretched East Side tenement in New York, a ■ semi-imbecile, and quito unablo to give aa account of what had happened to him since his disappearance. It was' certain, however, that Warsehawski could not have ai-rived in New York in a mentally weak condition, or ho would have been excluded, by the immigration authorities. At this stage of the story "Dagonet" introduces a fresh sensation. A. famous New York surgeon is stabbed to death in his laboratory by tho mother of a dead baby, while attempting to transplant to the throat of a tiger-cub the vocal cords of the infant. Amongst the effects of the dead surgeon was found an envelope labelled "The Case of Joseph .Warschawski," containing a confession that while on a-visit to London he heard of the genius and intellectual promise of Warsehawski, and made his acquaintance. He invited tho young man to his rooms in a London hotel, and there administered to his victim a potion ,-which caused temporary loss of memory. Ho booked passages for himself and Warsehawski :by the next steamer leaving Liverpool, and took the young man to New York. Tho surgeon was a widower with a son who, after giving tho most brilliant promise, was stricken with brain trouble and was, .it the time of tho great doctor's return, rapidly approaching a condition of insanity. A remarkable surgical operation was then performed by the surgeon, an oxchango of brains 'b'ciing 'effected between'his son and tho ' kidnapped Polish Jew,'after which the latter was turned into-.the streets of New York, a helpless imbecile, to t-hift for himself. The doctor's son bocamo a brilliant genius, wrote two extremely successful plays, and so "Dagonet" .assures us, lias entered into a contract with ;i London threatical manager for 'tho production of a third play which is "the master effort of tho'century."