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THE MAN FROM NOWHERE.

IDENTIFIED AFTER LAPSE OF THREE › YEARS.

AMAZING CASE.

A man who lost his memory three years ago and did not know his own name has been identified. He was known as "Matt, the lost-memory man," at

Belfast Workhouse, where he had been for three years. A fortnight,ago he secured a post in Lancashirë.

He was visited there by a Mr. and Mrs, King, of Crayford, Kent, who were able to identify him as John Frances Teel.

He left Crayford in 1927 with a small attache case, and turned up at the Belfast Poor Law"In- stitution 11 days later.

His identification was reported at a meeting of Belfast Guardians,

New Start in Life... "Matt's" case is one of the most amazing in the annals of lost memory mysteries. It is seldom that there is such a complete lapse of the mental faculties.

When he was found he knew neither his name nor his age, nor what he was. The things of childhood, as well as manhood, were gone, and for all practical į purpose he had to start out in life | all over again.

He could neither read nor write, and had had to endure the labori- ous course that the merest infant goes through in learning the things that are the common cur- rency of life and thought,

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Inquiries were made about him all over the world, and the records of the War Office seached to find out if he was an ex-Service man. Chloroform and Hypnotism. The first clue to his real Belf was found when they set a chemist's balance before him. He instinctively adjusted it, but did not know what the weights were for. By instinct, too he perforin- ed all those things that a trained chemist does, and, with study and training he very soon became competent chemist

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He called himself "The Man from Nowhere" and he was chloro- formed and hypnotised in an effort to coax his subjective mind to as- sert itself and restore to him his personality.

Every attempt and artifice fail- ed, Matt" even experimented with himself by running across the road in front of motor cars in the hope of sustaining a mental shock that would bring back his memory..

It was through the mystery man's photograph appearing in the Press that he was identified.

"My Old Chum.”

Seeing the photograph and the details of the man, Mr. Tom King, of Crayford, exclaimed: "Why, that's my old chum, John Frances Teel."

When Teel was a lad of 14 his uncle, with whom he was living, died and the boy went to Crayford to work at one of the local fac- tories.

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PRESENT SMALL IMAGES TO

BE ENLARGED."

Efforts to extend the possibili- ties of television are now being made, says Mr. John L. Baird in a foreword to "Television" (Pitman, 7s. 6d.), by Sydney A. Moseley and H. J. Barton Chapple......

"The present images," he writes, "are restricted, to simple scenas, At the same factory was a la such as head and shoulder views, named Tom King. The two sounór a few people seated, together. became pals, and as Teel had no home, young King took him home and introduced him to his mother.

The result was she invited the boy to make his home with her, and this he did for several years. Then he enlisted in the Army and went with his regiment to India. He returned with the re- giment to France when the war broke out, and was wounded and discharged in 1916.

Then he returned to his hone at Crayford.

In the meantime Mrs. King had died, but Mr. Tom King had got married and Teel was again made welcome by his old friend.

Later on he made two or three journeys to the Gold Coast to work at the gold mines.

Tried by the Balance. It was doubtless owing to what he learned there that when the people in. Lancashire were recent ly trying to help him to recall his memory, and put a chemist's balance before him, he was able to adjust it.

it had been part of his work as a gold assayer in Africa.

Mr. Tom King is probably the one man in the world who knows all about him.

So thrilled was he by the die covery of the mystery man's photograph in the newspapers that he and his wife at once ar ranged to go to Lancaster. Proved by Documents.

In an interview they said they were able to produce documents. which proved they really knew all about Teel.

Mr. King-also told Teel much that he had forgotten, but some of which he could then recall, Thesa were only odd glimpses, however, and he was unable to recall jus memory to any extent beyond two years ago.

At the moment it is not thought well that the Man Who Lost His Memory should return to. Gray, ford He would meet scores of

and a 'sutiden return to his old

This limitation is imposed upon. us by the narrow wave-band avail- able, but we are making expëri- ments on the short wavelengths, which provide a much larger available wave-band without caus- sing interference."

Mr. Bairn says it must not be taken for granted that television is bound by the laws which govern cinematography.

Sending at Slow Speed. "There is no necessity to send 22 pictures per second. In the laboratory we have transmit- ted pictures at as slow a speed us three per second, and these plc- tures have been visible as a united whole.

"At that speed, however, rapid motion is impossible, and a man who turns his head rapidly gives the impression of having left his pose behind, or a hand moved up and down looks as if the fingers were made of sealing wax.

"The speed of television is not bound by the laws of cinema- tography, and those who endeavour. to fix limitations to the progress of television, basing their argu ment upon established arts," may fall into as grave errors as those who based their calculations upon halftone blocks, and assumed the television image to be made up of dots."

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