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Show Strange Lapse of Memory Spokane Man Forget HI Identity and Wandr About Country for Four Month. Spokane. Wash. Max Pansier of No. CIO North Toledo avenue, a prosperous, pros-perous, high salaried electrical mechanic, me-chanic, has bud the strungest case of lapse of memory ever known In Hpo ksne. Ou April W I'assler, steadily ca ployed here for more than two ytr. owning hla own home and with a wife and two children, suddenly drr.cped out of sight. The pullce wore unable to find uny trace of lilm and bis wife feared be had boon held up and thrown Into thu river. He reappeared at his home a few duya ago, accompanied by a friend, who met hlin wandering up and down Montgomery avenue, near his own home. I'assler remembercs little of the four months during which he was missing. Ho recalls that un April 10 he went to a physician's office because of a headache. Ho remembers tint II Ing else except working long hours on a farm, tending rattle and pitching hay. This Is attested to by his sun burned face and hla calloused hands One other detail stands out. lie was washing bis shirt one day on the farm and a woman passing said, "Yol should have a wife to do that for you. That aturted a feeble memory. He he-gun he-gun to Imagine that he bad a wife, but could not remember bis own name ol her face. The next thing he remembers Is being be-ing la Handpolnt, Idaho, and then all I forgotten until be found hluiselt wandering around tbe street hen and wa recalled to conaclousuess of hla ewn Identity by lug a Mont gouiery aveuuu sign on a lelogrupl pole. J. J. While, a neighbor, foun, Pass ler standing staring ut the street sign and look him to his waiting wile, win long berore had given up hope uf evei seeing him aguln. I'assler hsd appar ently recovered all his facilities and It done tbe worse for his experience. |