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Show HIT BY THUGS AND LOSES MEMORY Salt Lake, Jan. 17. To be slugged, robbed, remain unconscious for four days, and, recovering, bo utterly unable un-able to recall personal Identity, with only dim recollections of previous career, ca-reer, yet retaining a clear-cut Impression Impres-sion of scores of towns visited In numerous nu-merous states. Is certainly an experience experi-ence that falls to tho lot of but few men. The statement reads like the dream of a somewhat overwrought writer of fiction, but It appears to be a "plain, unvarnished tale." According to information received from American Falls, Ida., Sheriff D. B. Jefferles of Power county is eagor-Iy eagor-Iy awaiting Information that will diB-close diB-close to him the Identity qf a stranger, who, December 21, 1915, was beaten and robbed In American Falls and was found unconscious, his pockets empty and by his side an empty pock-ctbook pock-ctbook containing only Identified man was unconscious four days. Ho has regained what appears to' be normal health, strength and mentality, except that he does not know who he Is, where he came from or what his past life has been. Like scenery viewed through darkened dark-ened glasses, hazy recollections shape themselves In the mind of the stranger, strang-er, but the picture is generally faint and poorly defined. It seems to him that at one time he operated a restaurant restau-rant In Nevada and that sometime, somewhere, he was in partnership with a "Tom D. Harris"; that he sometime knew a Bill Jones, his son Ray and Hannah. Ray's wife. He partly remembers having worked in a mine many years ago, and It seems to him that he fell down the shaft of an upraise and Injured his back and side. He Is quite certain that he had a tank account and property somewhere and that he has a brother who is a missionary in China. The man retains the Impression that he was a traveling man for a Columbus, O., house In 1914; that he worked the territory around Wheeling Wheel-ing "W. Va., then went to North Dakota Da-kota and later to Canada. He can remember having visited cities In Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Arkan-sas, Kansas. Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and in Canada. The man is about 40 years of age, 5 feet 10a,& inches tall, weighs about 170 pounds, believed about ten pounds above his normal weight, has black hair streaked with gray, Is quite bald on crown of head, has thin features, not quite so full as the picture Indicates, Indi-cates, and is active in movement. A faint scar begins near the center of the right eyebrow and extends for about an inch toward the center of the forehead. 00 |