Show µ r u t i l CLICK OF CAMERA i AWAKENS MEMORY j SNAP OF A PHOTOGRAPHERS INSTRUMENT J IN-STRUMENT CLEARS MIND qi BLANK FOR TWO YEARS I i BELIEVED DEAD BY PARENTS I William Childs Son of Wealthy Brooklyn I Brook-lyn People Suddenly Remembers In Milwaukee Movements Through Several States Milwaukee Olio of the stiangest eases of aphasia 01 loss of nicinniy In medical records hUH been elucidated In tlilu city two jcnrs after It hud Its be finning In Chicago William Chllds 115 jinirH old son of tho late George Vlllliun Chllds Jr of Brooklyn N Y recovered his Jticmory after having been mourned as dead and Identified himself when he heard tho click of a photographic camera Two JUTS ago lit old I ho Milwaukee a authoiltlcH something Miapped In i Ills head and niuco that limo ho does s I t not know what unite ho tins traveled I 110 says It happened at a Moady instl tutu meeting after ho had been workIng work-Ing In Chicago for manufacturers of directories and circular letters Chllds t I saId the firm used cameras In Its business busi-ness A week ago Chills appeared In Milwaukee Mil-waukee from nobody known where least of all himself Ho begged the county authorities to lltul out who ho was They could not help him until tho camera shutter aroused the sleeping memory The other day Interest was aroused by a report that he might bo a missing dry goods merchant A photographer was sent out to get his picture and l fiend to those who thought lie might be their missing uncle un-cle With ho taking of the picture tho man was cured of his strange a Illation Illa-tion tionHo Ho began speaking slowly ot first Then ho talked rapidly and wept when bo realized that virtually he had been In another world for two years Ac 4 I y Il I I i 4ti 4 ti Tim n Camera Shutter Aroused thee the-e Sleeping Memory cording to the story he told tho doctors doc-tors ho Is the son of n wealthy family In Brooklyn He said that for years ho was the chief clerk of tho Anthony photographic supply house In Now York city Ho could not remember now ho loft New York but ho knows I that his next place of employment was Chicago Childs associated photographic photograph-ic supplies with the firm His health failed ho said and he wont to tho Moody Institute At one of tho meetings ho said something scorned to snap and his next recollection recollec-tion was his arrival In Milwaukee Ha had no memory of how ho happened to get to Milwaukee but said he recalled tho date March 5 when ho was wandering wan-dering In the snow trying to remember who ho was A tolegram from Now York stated that Childs last was heard from In Chicago Chi-cago before ho found Milwaukee Ills mother Mrs M U Childs Is living with a brother William I > Ellery of Hackcnsack N J Mrs Child when found at her brothers house talked about her son I have not heard from him for two years she said At that time ho was living In Chicago but ho suddenly disappeared dis-appeared Wo could get no trace of him Ho worked for a number of years for tho photographic firm of E II T Anthony Co but left thorn 18 years ago and went Into tho dentistry business busi-ness In Now York Then ho wont to Chicago where ho has lived for several sev-eral years up to tho time of his disappearance i disap-pearance L Sho said his father died In Seattle a year ago S 11 A Anthony former president of tho photographic company said ho remembered re-membered that Chllds had been employed r + em-ployed as shipping clerk but that he bad left the firm a number of years r ago It was through a cousin of R A itr1rJ Anthony l A Anthony that Childs q identification was verified In the cast |