T hursday , J anuary
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5. 1922
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Another Chiropractic Achievement!
DEAD AND DIVORCED-AND DOESN’T REMEMBER
And Now, After Undergoing the Most Extraordinary Experience a
Man Ever Had, George L. Fish, Capitalist, Is Honeymooning With His
Fiancee of the Days Before the ‘’Cloud”
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Three whole years have slip
ped from the life of George Lea-
ander Fish, the California capit
alist and inventor. Three whole
years have been drawn into the
mysterious caverns of hia sub-
conscious mind.
But not only are those three
years blotted from his memory,
but they contain a story of ro-
mance and adventure amazing
to all who hear it—and most of
all to George L. Fish himself.
For in that now-forgotten lite
Mr .Fish was pronounced dead,
was miraculously resurected on
the embalmer’s tabic, was married
and divorced. His wife com
plained of his obsession for ank
les. He not only recalls no ob
session for tinkles, but he cannot
•even summon the faintest recol
lection of his wife.
Mr. Fish is now married again
—to the woman to whom he was
engaged when his memory first
passed under a cloud. He is very
happy—but a doubt of these
three dark years of amgiesia is
always in his mind. “What sort
of a man was I?” he constantly
asks himself. “What all did I
Jose. The word "killed’’ is used ad
visedly, for Fish, after being pick
ed up and carried to a hospital at
Garden City, was officially pro
nounced dead and a certificate to
that effect made out.
A Remarkable Experience.
His body was pitifully mangled.
Twenty-two teeth were knocked
out, his nose smashed, his collar
bone fractured :n three places, his
ipine dislocated, reven ribs, both
arms and leg) broken. Physicians
who examined him after he first
reached the hospital said that life
would be extinct in 40 minutes,
but he was not actually pronounced
dead until two days later.
His body was taken to the mor
gue and funeral arrangements
made. The mortician started the
process of embalming by making a
deep incision in Fish’s arm, where
upon he discovered signs of life in
th0 body. Following a forlorn hope
the body was rushed back to the
hospital and tlte fight for life re-
newed.
Three months later Fish was dls-
charged as cured. He was cured, in
a sense, That is, the wounds of his
fleh had healed and his bones, to
not known. Fish, of course, recalls
nothing of them and Virginia
Burns Fish, who has been sick for
a long time, has been reluctant to
discuss the affair. Whether she
married him knowing that the
greater part of his past was a
blank she has never said.
But Fish, according to her bill
of divorce, was not a good husband
in the accepted sense of the word.
She charged that he "judged wo-
mqn’s characters by their ankles."
The divorce that she asked for was
granted her and Fish went hla way
again.
Through Justice Langdon of San
Francisco, a friend of the amnes
iac. scientists at Afodesto, Calif.,
heard of his case and became inter
ested. Fish was persuaded to go
to Modesto and submit himself to
certain chiropractic experiments.
The chiropractor who examined
Fish discovered that several of his
vertebrae were misplaced.
He
placd Fish on an operating table
and began an ordinary chiropractic
manipulation, with the result that
his backbone was suddenly made
straight.
The efNct on the amnesiac was
miraculous. The response of his
mind was like the action of an
electric light system when switch
is thrown on-
Old memories flood
ed his mltad. He instinctively took
up the life from which he had been
torn by the automobile accident of
Just before
three years previous.
the automobile wreck Fish had
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been, adding
figures. He awoke
from the’sbock "of the operation
and took up his addition where he
had left off.
The psychological
explanation given by Dr. Charlea
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GEORGE LEANDER FISH
do? Will some forgotten act one
day rise up to tear my life to
pieces?
For ” the present, at beast—Mr.
Fish can only take what others
tall him—as the true story of
that other UN.
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McCloud
all appearance, hod knitted togeth
er.
But his memory was a void.
George L. Fish, the man who had
been struck by the automobile was
gons.
In hie place was another
man who faced life In full o n es t e
■ion of bin powers, but who
background of memory.
was he
I Only through documents George
able to establish himself ss
L. Fish. But depite this handicap,
he started in business, built up new
relationships, and was rapidly
making a success of his new life.
This new George Fish lived very
quietly bnt hi« affairs prospered
exceedingly. He was very fond of
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The wonderful results obtained in this remarkable case
are being accomplished by all competent Chiropractors in
various other diseases.
No matter what your ailment may be do not consider
your case hopeless until you have tried Chiropractic.
What it did in the above case it may do for you.
DR. FOREST L. HOWARD
CHIROPRACTOR
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Both Phones
211-12-13 Tillamook Bldg.
FREE
Spinal Analysis and Consultation
Adjustment will be given in the home if the patient is un
able to come to the office.
Eddy,
Chiropractor,
of
what
had happened to Fish is simple
efnough.
The displacement of his
spine had pinched his memory cord
and the resetting of It released this
cord and It began to function
again.
The ifsychology of it is not so
easy to explain. Scientists are not
so certain of themselvee when they
try to bring to the surface the
thoughts that are sunk in subcon
scious depths of the human mind.
Psycho-analysts such as Freud, be
lieve that the Impulses generated
2n this hidden dynomo of the mind
are the determining impulse of life.
The outward man is a mere silhou
ette. Others declare that there
are two natures in man which
weave back and forth through
light into darkness.
But, returning to Fish, though
he now remembered every detail of
his life prior to his accident, the
three-year interval became a total
blank.
As other memories had
rushed in these had I rushed out.
But this did not worry him at
first.
lie hastened to take up the
old threads.
He immediately got in touch
with Mrs. McCloud, then in Rush
ville. Ind. Accompanied by her
father, Judge James A. Kratzer,
she went west. After ten months
of convalescence they werb mar-
rled.
Though friends had often told
him of various things that had
happened to him In his three for
gotten years, he did not begin to
dread their dark possibilities until
I recently. He was in San Francls-
, co with his wife to arrange the leg-
i al steps connected with the adop-
I tion of the former Mrs. McCloud's
: two daughters. While going through
courthouse records he stumbled u-
i cross a record of his own divorce
suit. Hte discovered to his amaze-
m»nt that Mrs. Virginia Burns
Fish. a patient in St. Francis hos-
Pi tai, had been married to him and
divorced from him. She was only
a name to him—but he went back
a little further and found marriage
records.
The divorcee charges, if true,
stamped him as a “gay Lothario."
H's was known to many women, It
was charged. He recalled what
Dr. Charles Eddy, the chiropractor
who operated on him, had said:
“The case of Fish is qnjs of the
most unusual that has come to the
attention of tire medical profession.
So far as I can determine, he has
lived the lives of two distinct per
sonalities, so far as his conscious
ness was concerned, and yet was
successful in his business and pro
fessional occupations in each. The
retoratlon of his memory was al
most lnManeous.”
Fish began to speculate on that
"other personality.” There was
proof of one woman—and perhaps
there had been others. Perhaps he
had, started affairs In motion which
would confound and amaze th»
Fish of his present consclouAieae.
As matters stood strange men werw
always walking up to him and say
ing, “Hello, Fish.”
“Great guns!” said Fish, In talk
ing over hie strange plight one day
recently, “What did I do? I Could
have done anything. I haven’t yet
heard that I murdered anybody or
anything nearly as serious, though
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sorn* rare pieces of folly are chalk-
ed up against me.
“I never knew I had been mar
rled until 1 read it in th* papera at
Bakersfield. In San Francisco I had
already seen the record of my di-
rorce. I wouldn't know the wo-
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man if I saw her on the street,
probably wouldn't have known a-
bout her If I hadn't applied for ad-
option papers.
“I can’t help digging into the
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mystery.
I suppose the aenalbl-
thlng would be to call it a day and
forget about it.
But it fascinates
rrre
Any mention of the woman I
married during the three years of
forgetfulness Is very annoying to
my wife. Yet people who have
seen them both tell me there is an
amazing renemblanc— and the pic
tures seem to point to It strongly.
"Among other things,' 'continued
Fish, “I remembered, that I had
seven sisters. Nice women too, all
of them. When I got Into touch
with them again I found that the
other self—the amnesia man- had
been to We them. I had only staid
a night at the old home, It seems,
and they fovnd me very queer. In
fact, some of my friends go so far
Weil
as to say that I was crazy.
I’ve to believe everything they say.
But I wonder.”
The consciousness of a precari
ous position is always with Mr.
Fish these days, happy though he Is
with hie wife. Ho fears, with a
sickening fear, a ghost from those
voided three yearn. But depl to this
possibility—and the further chance
that he may itet excited some time,
strain himself and relapse into am
nesia -he is forever groping into
those subconscious caverns of his
mind—forever listening for a voice
from hie forgotten UN.—Sunday
Oregesifir.
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■FENCER 8AT8
There la a prlnetple which la • bar
against all Information, which is
proof against all argument, and
which eannot fail to heap a ma* I*
•ver last I ng ignornaa*
That prin
ciple la condemnation before ln-
Oaly truth ea* permanently pre
vail, all alee must