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Show L. D. S. ELDER LOSES MEMORY Salt Lake Youth Believed to Be "Jean Pacque" at San Francisco SAX PRANCISCO, March 6. After Af-ter registering as Jean Paque, i youth, hclievcd to be Eugene i Pack, IJ-yer-Old Bon of Professor Prederlck G. Pock, geologist of the University of Utah, appealed to the St. Francis hotel management on Saturday night to aid him in establishing estab-lishing his identity. He arrived at i lie hotel Friday ni;ht. Searching amiiiic tils effect.'1. , Thomas Keating and Harry Boyle. I assistant hotel managers, found a clergyman's transportation book benr-i benr-i injr the name and address 'f Eugene rant Pack. ."i South Thirteenth Bast street. i!i Lake City Mormon I religious iiooks found also bore the , same name. From Salt Lake came word that Eugene Pack i" the 19-year-old son of Professor Frederick (I. Pack- geologist ge-ologist at the University of Utah, atv' has been stationed in Portland. After Af-ter trying to ns crtttTn It" his son bed disappeared Professor 1'ack left la-t night for San Prancisco, according I o news dispatcher. Similarity between the names Eugene Eu-gene Pack and Jean Paque strength- I ened the belief as to the true identity; of the youth. Investigation by hotel officials fils-l losed that he had arrived here from i Portland on the Shasta Limited Prion Pri-on v night. Tiie youth remembered being in Bait Lake, Portland and other cities, i but was unable to recall aUvthlng j that could aid him In recovering his iosi incniorj . l SI .IKI s PIC1 1 IU Among his baggage were found an aviation helmet, leather puttees and an army shirt, along with pictures of a wrecked airplane and a beautiful Kirl. Tho youth admitted that he could pilot an airplane. He remen.-bored remen.-bored being hit on the head, but could not say when or how It happened. hap-pened. The Rirl. he said, was Peggy r.f Salt I.ake " but he could not recall her name or tell whether she was wife, sister or sweetheart. According to the bo. ho did not discover his loss of memory abruptly, abrupt-ly, "it gradually dawned on me," he said, "that I did not know who I was, how I had got hero or what I had been doing, so I decided to ask the hotel detective to try and help me. Everything seems to be x blank " 1RRIICS RI.I.KilOrs BOOKS. I After receiving answers to tele-jrranis tele-jrranis sent to Salt Iike. hotel officials offi-cials said the were convinced that the youth was young Pack. They believe he suffered an injury on tho head either during the war or recently recent-ly which resulted in his lapse of I memory. Pack, if It !s he could remember but little of what he had done since (arriving in S.m Fmnclsco. He re-I re-I called eating breakfast Saturday morning in a downtown cafe, and visited Chinatown that night, but that was all. One of the religious books found in ills ba?gatfe was entitled Doctrine Doc-trine and Covenants of the Church of Jesu Christ of Latter-day Saints." and bore the name Eugene G. Pa6k on the outside cover. The other w.ts i Hible. On the flyleaf of both books were written From the Bishoprlc and Saints of the Thirty-third Ward. , Salt Lake City." The youth's clothing had all been purchased In Salt Lakei Hotel st.i-I st.i-I tlonery discovered in ids suitcase showed that he had been staying at the Portland, Portland, Ore. The amnesia ylctlm is about 19 years of ago five feet 10 inches tall, 135 pounds In Weight, slender build and black hair This description is believed to tally with that of young Pack. liLM RIPTIOV TALLIES SALT LAKE March 6. Professor I Frederick . Pack of the University i of L'tah left last night on a late train I for San Francisco where he has gone to determine If the young man who registered at the St Francis hotel on Friday night last as Jean Paque Is his son. Eugene G. Pack. The son, according to Professor Pack, is only lit years of age and the deserip-j deserip-j tlon received by the father tallies l with that of his son. The youth left Salt Lake for Portland, Port-land, Ore., two weeks ago. his father said, having been in Salt Lake since i last August when he was brought I back here because of illnes- He was sent on a mission a little more than a year ago to tho northwestern north-western states, and his headquarters were In Portland When he returned to Salt Lake lost August he was suffering suf-fering with stomach trouble. Professor Profes-sor Pack said last night, and gave no indications of loss of inemow. ROBBER1 l SI 6PB TED. Shortly after Professor T'a'k too'.: a westbound train last ni;ht a message was received by members of his family fam-ily from President Hebcr J. Ivorson of the noithwistein states ntlsslon i the church, to the effect that young Pock bad left Portland last Thursday Thurs-day morning at 10 o'clock or Ru-Keno; Ru-Keno; Ore He took with him. the message said a large sum of nione Effort of President Iverson to locate lo-cate Pack in Eugene wero without aall. and when news was rect iv, ,i of the amnesia case in San Francisco the Portland officials of the mission became alarmed. They believe, the message said, that young Pack was -lugged and robbed. Tho fact that the young man registered reg-istered In San Francisco under the name of Jean Paquo Is thought by officials there to Indicate that he had a slight recollection or his name, the similarity of tho names behiK obvious. |
