New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1926, Page 14

vanced the theory that he is of Armenian, Rumanian or Greek descent. He believes that he may be of Italian extraction, but an experi- |ment he tried out in California availed him nothing. He found an Itallan family in a Californfa city and boarded with |them for some time. they ate, went to the same places of whom helamusement they did and attempted TARBOT' SPENDS LIFE IN QUEST FOR MOTHER (Continued from First Page) with several men for worked before the curtain dropped |to fit himself to their customs in the | on the first part of his life. | hope that his past life might come He stated that it has been POsi-|pack to him. But to no avail. He did \ively ascertalned that he is a ma-|not care for the Italian mode of liv- }&\'nlfl by tvade and that he was|ing any more than he did for any | other, empyoyed as a- machinist foreman in the gheat plang of the Goodyear Rubber gompany in Akron, Ohio. | He recognlzed several men at that| plant and several Of them recogniz- ed him as having been employed there years ago, hut beyond that the puzzle remains as complicated as before. No owe knows his real name or anything about his past lige. Only last week he had dinner in|down to his last Newark, N. J., with a man whom he worked in Brook Last night at an American Legion meeting in Unionville he stated that ted to talk volubly in said that he was d or tail of wh 8. He is travelling on his own hook, he sald, and he has many times been ckel, but he will |ed him and sta | Italian. “Jers [unable to mak the man was s: N.|[time or other things will come back Y., in 1911. The man ki him [to him and he will be able to take and he knew his former fellow-|his place in a world in which he is He ate what | |a member of the Legion approach- | under | not give up. He is sure that some- | > RN 3T SR SO AT T 5 AN R R AU 7 SIS 5 > NEW BRITAI'! DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926. ; R some time. He became a familiar figure with the bucket and so he was called “Jerry, The Tar Pot,” | which gradually changed to “Jerry | Tarbot “Jer! ays that he has a natural | passed, wint grant a special (liapcn-‘ |sation in his case and allow him to |have those benefits. It is expected |that this bill will come before the | | present session of congress. His present lifo ionsists of three | ¥ heartrending ye with now and |aversion for some types of people, then quick flashes from the past|especially the pig-headed bullying which have sent him out on clues, | kind and, as a result, he figures that some of which have been valuable | he have been confined to a vhile others have led him into blind | hospital, asylum or jail at some time alleys. He remembers battles and | during the period of darkness, where {movements during the World war, [he reccived brutal treatment, and | which would be unknown to any-|that this treatment has made an {one who had not taken part in them. | ineradicable impression on his sub- but in 1918 he lost his memory and | conscious mind. it time untll he was pleked | gevera] facts fn connection with !from th: of San Francisco|yjs past life have been discovered with a bayonet at- |up in the str hunting Germ tached to a broom {and later brought back to normaley | at Stockton State hospital in Califor- nia. Since that time he has spent |a considerable period in hospitals where been treated for wounds ed during the war. Th | government has granted him medi cal aid until he shall on come fit. that led to his discovery that he was foreman came to him March. He said that he ndergoing treatment at the of a surgeon and that he was | unable to take ether, due to the con- dition of his lungs. The operation was on a portion of the brain and i ary for the surgeon to nent in the ear and to work from that point. |a machi only last hand, more be- | It has been ascertained by the Veterans’ bureau in its effort to find hel |2nd he is daily heping that other | handle, treated | houghts may come back. The flash | secured a plece of paper, upon | which he wrote what had been im- printed on his mind during the mo- ment that the curtain had been lift- cd, exposing a glimpse of the past to him. He went to the plant where the linstruments were made and was |allowed to walk through several of |the rooms. Without any prompting he named several pleces of ma- chinery and picked up an instru- ment, stating that he had worked |\with one of them years before. The |instrument, an uncommon one, was named and he later located the |foreman under whom he had work- ed in 1911 In several towns his chances to find himself” have been shattered Ithrough a mistaken sense of help lon the part of organizations, with |the result that his movements have |been played up too much and he |has received too much publicity. |He dislikes pomp and prefers to |travel quietly. In Akron his arrival was announced weeks ahead of time and he was treated like a re- turning hero when he finally | reached that city. raise them. He says that he knows the quality of solls and that some hens he raised while working on a farm in California bettered a great deal the egg-laying record of sev- eral experts. When he finds himself he is go- ing to get a farm, if he succeeds in getting the compensation due him from the government, he said. Through the courtesy of Carlyle G. Barrett, manager of the Capitol theater, “Jerry” will deliver a short talk from the stage of that play- house this evening shortly after 8 o'clock. Barrett, himself a Legion man, is glving *“Jerry” this chance to meet a group of New Britain people, in the hope that someone may see him who recognizes him. After his appearance at the Capi- tol theater *“Tarbot” will attend a meeting of Eddy-Glover post, American Leglon, and all Legion members are invited to be present. The Leglon home on Washington street will be open to anyone who may wish to see “Jerry.”” There is a chance that some ex-serviceman may be the means of restoring “Jerry” to his place in some com- munity, where lives an aged moth- er who still grieves for her son, lost on the battleflelds of France. “Jerry” has been recognized by several servicemen who remember him in engagements during the war. They say he was attired in the uniform of a Marine and affi- davits to the effect that they re- member him have been made. Col. David McKell of the 12th fleld ar- tillery, Second division, was one of those who made out an affidavit. None of these men knew anything about him beyond the fact that he was with them in several engage- ments. They say they never asked his name and he never told them, although several of them have talked with him. ‘“Jerry” has a vivid memory of several ments, notably that of ‘Woods. Belleau Pictures on Page 11. City Items ‘White Rose Camp will hold a reg- ular meeting in Judd's hall tonight. The Kiddie and Art Shop has €ngage- | day evening, many surprises for Xmas Shoppers. Roome 118, Professional Bldg.— Adv. Louis Cranley ot 74 Vine street, is resting comfortably at New Britain General hospital following an oper« ation performed yesterday. Miss Anna Towers of Maple street was removed to New Haven hos- pital today for treatment at that institution. A marriage license has been is- sued to Adolf Lehnert of 85 Albany avenue and Miss Therese Upholz of Forest street. The meeting of the New Britain Chapter of Hadassah which was scheduled to be held Monday eve- ning, December 6, will be held Mon- December 13, at the Burritt hotel. A fermer editor of the Hadassah News Letter of New York will address the meeting. Tea will be served. The monthly meeting of the Con« nectcut Foundry association will be held at the Burritt hotel this eve- ning. Patrolman Clarence Kumm was taken 1l1 on duty last night about 10 o’clock and was obliged to leave his beat. The pain was intense, he said, but| “I'm no hero,” he said today. right to compensation, that he was | his mind was absolutely clear. He | «The only reason I'm in my pres- in a hospital in Colorado at one|was sitting on a chalr, his head |ent condition is that I forgot to |time during the period 1918-1923. resting on a table and his eyes were dodge a shell. That’s not heroic.” His present name was given to him | focused on a cabinet of surgical in-| His one ambition 8 to own a rolls, but he learned that they had |proofs of service connections, he has |there. According to information se- |struments. And then, like a streak |farm, he says. Today on his way been destroyed. not been able to get the government |cured at the hospital he was an- | of lightning came the flash that he |down Church street, in company His manner of speech is distinctly |to afford him the benefits of the |xious for work to do and he was|had at one time made instruments with a Herald representative, he forelgn and many have been the |Veterans' bureau. At the present given the job of painting a picket |like that. He jumped to his feet and |paused in front of a florist's win- conjectures advanced as to his na- (time a bill, sponsored by one of the | fence. So, armed with a pot of tar|the doctors believed that he had |dow and pointed out the blooms by tlonality, Some have believed him to |legislative leaders from California, |and a brush he worked around the |gone crazy with the pain, but he |name, saying that he likes to raise to be Itallan, while others have ad- |is pending on congress, which, i |premises and made the job last for |told them that he was all right and |flowers and that he knows how to worker, but his friend, George Wil- [now a comparative stranger. He son, by name, could not remember |seeks no alms from anyone and he him beyond the fact that they had |asks only to be allowed to scek his worked in the same plant. “Jerry” | former self. sought to find his name on the pay-| In spite of the fact that he has out whether or not “Tarbot” has a Sage -Allen & T, ann Christmas-Ready With More Than Gifts READY with more than merchandise. 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