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From: angel gebhart <>
Subject: Nathaniel William Emery, who disappeared in 1923, has been located on Pacific coast
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:55:45 -0800 (PST)

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, April 9, 1928, p.1



Bloomington Man Found On The Pacific Coast

Romance of Modern Days Wife Had Given Him Up, Got a Divorce And Remarried.

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William Emery, Shell-Shocked Vet, Who Disappeared From Hospital in 1923 in Located Through Senator Watson.



(International News Service)

San Francisco, April 9- (INS) Bit by bit the gripping story of the experiences of Nathaniel William Emery, shell-shocked war veteran of Bloomington, Indiana, was approaching completion today.



Missing since 1923, when he escaped from a hospital at Madison, Ind., Emery, his past but a dim blur in his mind, wandered aimlessly about until he made his way to San Francisco. Here, after a nights sleep on an accustomed park bench, he went to the United Veterans Commission and applied for work.



Officials of the commission were able to learn the one fact which the shell-shocked veteran remembered, that he had served in an Indiana company of the United States Marine Corps. They communicated with Senator James E Watson of Indiana, who shed light on Emerys case and put the commission officials in touch with relatives of the man in Bloomington.



Further correspondence revealed that his former wife, who was Emma R. Ryan before her marriage to him, of a well-known Bloomington family, gave him up for dead when he disappeared, procured a divorce and remarried. She is now Mrs. Cleveland Butcher.



Efforts are being made, with the cooperation of relatives, to bring Emery into a government hospital for treatment.







Angel Gebhart

INMONROE Volunteer

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