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Show NAVAL PAYMASTER IS AMNESIA VICTIM MAN WHO STOLE THOUSANDS FROM WAR SHIP PAY ROLL IS FOUND Lieutenant Brown is Found With Picture of Wife and Roll of Currency Which Help Identify Him Sun Francisco, Lieutenant Ervine Brown, United States navy paymaster who disappeared at Mobile, Ala.. March 10 with $120,000 in government funds, was found lying in a roadway here Monday night. City detectives who found a man lying full length in one of the drives of ;ilden Gate Park, picked him up as "John Doe" and held him for oh-servation oh-servation as a victim of amnesia, un. til certain murks upon his body made them suspect he was the missing naval officer. At the receiving hospital he was identified as Brown first by rolls of $1200 in bills found on his person and then by a picture of Mrs. Daisy Brown, his wife found in his pocket ; then by a scar on one finger, and finally final-ly by the head of a "Gibson girl," ta-tooed ta-tooed in his left shoulder after the manner of the sea. Early Tuesday navy officers came with records to the hospital and an. nounced the identification positive. "Am I absolutely identified then?" Brown asked seeming to recover from his delirium. "Yes," said a detective. "Then what's the use of talking to you," replied Brown and he lapsed back into his demented state. Physicians who examined the man after he had fought with attendants at the hospital, asserted they were convinced he is feigning insanity. Toward daybreak Brown became quiet and it was possible to release him from the straps which had been used to hold him to his cot during most of the night. "I want to go back," he raved in his seeming delirium. "I don't like it here ; I want to go back. He had made practically no coherent coher-ent statement through the night. But as he quieted down he seemed to realize his predicament attendants, said, although he firmly denied his identity. Local officers expected to turn him over to the navy and he will probably will be taken to San Diego headquarters head-quarters of the destroyer sqsadron, for disposition of his case. Brown was dressed in citizens clothing when found. His face was drawn and his eyes bloodshot. He plainly showed effects of great mental men-tal strain if not insanity. |