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Show NAVAL PAYMASTER IS AljSIA VICTIM MAN WHO STOLE THOUSANDS FROM WAR SHIP PAY ROLL IS FOUND Lieutenant Brown is Found Witb Picture of Wife and Roll of Currency Which Help Identify Him San .Francisco. Lieutenant F.rvine Rrown, United States navy paymaster who disappeareil at Mobile, Ala.. March 10 with .T20,0ti0 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 Golden Gate Park, picked him up as "John Ioe" and held him for observation ob-servation as a victim of amnesia, until un-til certain marks upon his body made them suspect he was the missing naval officer. At the receiving hospital he was identified as Rrown first by rolls of Slgfxi in bills found on bis person and then by a picture of Mrs. I aisy Rrown, 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 lift 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 th.-nV" Rrown asked seeming to recover from his delirium. ' "Yes," said a detective. i "Then what's the u-e of talking to you." replied Rrown and he lapsed buck into l"ls demented state. I'hysicians who examined the man after he had fought with attendants : at the hospital, itserted. they were I convinced he is feigning insanity. ' Toward daybreak Rrown be-ame ' quiet and It was po-sib'e to release him from the straps which had Ix-eii used tn hold him to his rot during most of the night. "I want to go bark," be ravel in I bis seeming delirium. "I don't like it here; I want to go back. He had made pr.irtically no cher. ' ent statement through the night. ; Rut as he qub-ted down- he seemed I to realize his predicament attendant-. said, although be firmly denied his i Identity. ' Iyic.il officers exp.-'tci to turn him over to the nay nnd he will pprbably will be taken to S.in 1 d.go headquarters head-quarters of the destrover pc ulron. for disposition of his rase. l'rown was dre-s.-d In citir-ns j clothing whi-n found. H.s face was drawn and his cy.-s bloodshot. II" plainly siiow.d effects of great nvn. tal st re in if not Inani; y. |