Denver, Sept. 6—Henry Turner, a Denver plumber, left a repair job for 15 minutes to get a drink of water, and returned eight months and 10 days later.
Turner called the home of Dr. Lillian Pollock, December 6, 1920, to fix a water pipe. At 7:45 o’clock that morning he left to get a drink of water, and told Dr. Pollock he would be back in 15 minutes. At 8 o’clock, the morning of August 16, 1921, Turner showed up at Dr. Pollock’s residence and asked where his tools were, as he wanted to complete the job he had just left.
He refused to believe he had been gone eight months, and told physicians that he remembered being struck on the head by something when he went out for 15 minutes, December 6. The next he remembered, he said, was being in a hospital in Syracuse, N.Y.
Physicians say Turner’s case is one of amnesia, although they are puzzled as to how he should remember the repair job when he had forgotten practically everything else.
From The Charlotte News, Sept. 6, 1921
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