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Something In This Name

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The mystery that has been surrounding the ideutity of David Dranghn has been solved and in a way that is likely to givö David niuch trouble. Draughn was several weeks ago dragged f rom the railroad tracks iu the south end of the city just in time to save hiin trom being inangled. It was then discovered that he had been beaten alniost to death. He was carried to the Grady hospital, and when he recovered physically it was found that bis mind was a perfect blank as to past events - so much so that he even did not know his own nauie. Finally under the care of the surgeons there came back inklings of the past, and one day last week he electrifiéd everybody abont the hospital by rusliing about anddeclaringhe "hadit." Hehadcaught what he said was his last name. He was taken by detectives tip into North Carolina, and at Culberson, near Murphy, he found friends, btit he was not Draughn, at least not there. He had been known there as Dr. F. D. Heath and had lived there for several months last summer, but Heath and Draughn are one and the same man. and it developed that nnder the former name he has three living wives. One lives in Salem, No. 2 in Asheville and No. 3 in Bryson City, Va. His rnother, Mrs. Frank Barr, the wife of a printer, also lives near Salem. He will be prosecuted for bigamy and is very sorry he lias found out who he is.