Son of Malcolm and Edith Macleod
New York Tribune (NY., NY.), P. 9, Col. 4
Mon., Sep. 13, 1920
MacLeod Gone 2 Days Before Body Is Found
Son of New York Clergyman Believed to Have Suffered From Amnesia in Canada, Where He Was Drowned
Few Details of Tragedy
Youth, Who Disappeared From Camp Merritt in '18, Alone at Time of Death
Henry Blakely MacLeod, son of the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Macleod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, had been missing more than two days, when his body was found in the waters about Eldon, Prince Edward Island, off the mainland of Nova Scotia, a relative said yesterday.
From the meager telegraphic details of the drowning last week sent by his grandmother, Mrs. Donald Macleod, with whom he had been spending the summer, members of the family believe he met death during one of his frequent spells of mental derangement.
The first news of the tragedy was received by Dr. Macleod Friday night. The telegram from his grandmother said simply that Blakely had been drowned and would be buried in the family cemetery there.
Suffered From Amnesia
Subsequent messages, the first of which was received yesterday, informed the father and mother that their son, who had been a victim of amnesia for two years, "had wandered off" two days before his body was discovered. The message said his grandmother had not been worried, as she had thought he would turn up alone somewhere on the island.
A telegram said the details of the tragedy were being forwarded by letter, which is expected here to-day.
Henry Blakely MacLeod gained wide publicity during the twenty months he was missing and counted as dead by his family after disappearing from Camp Merritt, N. J., June 27, 1918. During all that time it is believed he was suffering from amnesia and unable to recall his name or identity.
A reward of $1,000 was offered some time after his disappearance by his father for any information of his whereabouts, dead or alive.
Blakely remembered his name last March in a cell in the city jail at Richmond, Va. He was arrested while loitering on a railroad track. The shock seemed to clear his mind and he wrote to his father.
Father Claims His Son
The clergyman went to Richmond and brought his son to Washington, where he was treated in an army hospital for several weeks. He received an honorable discharge and was taken to the family home at 151 Central Park West.
In June Dr. MacLeod took his son and daughter, Jean, to Prince Edward Island, where their grandmother lives, to spend the summer. Dr. MacLeod returned September 1 and Blakeley was to come home this week, as the family is to move to Brownsville in a few days.
Dr. MacLeod had told members of the family and friends that he was much encouraged over his son's condition after the months in Canada.
Dr. and Mrs. MacLeod were prostrated last night an could not be seen. A member of the family said the young man "had never been right." He said Blakely was extremely bright in his studies, but that something seemed to have upset his mental processes about the time he ran away from Princeton, and since then he had been a great care to the family. He had wandered off before while at Prince Edward Island, but had returned.
It was pointed out that Blakely was a good swimmer and physically strong. He is said to have swum across the St. Lawrence River.
Besides his father, mother and sister, he is survived by a small brother, Malcolm James Jr., three years old.
Find A Grave Contributor: Chloe, #47159257
New York Tribune (NY., NY.), P. 9, Col. 4
Mon., Sep. 13, 1920
MacLeod Gone 2 Days Before Body Is Found
Son of New York Clergyman Believed to Have Suffered From Amnesia in Canada, Where He Was Drowned
Few Details of Tragedy
Youth, Who Disappeared From Camp Merritt in '18, Alone at Time of Death
Henry Blakely MacLeod, son of the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Macleod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, had been missing more than two days, when his body was found in the waters about Eldon, Prince Edward Island, off the mainland of Nova Scotia, a relative said yesterday.
From the meager telegraphic details of the drowning last week sent by his grandmother, Mrs. Donald Macleod, with whom he had been spending the summer, members of the family believe he met death during one of his frequent spells of mental derangement.
The first news of the tragedy was received by Dr. Macleod Friday night. The telegram from his grandmother said simply that Blakely had been drowned and would be buried in the family cemetery there.
Suffered From Amnesia
Subsequent messages, the first of which was received yesterday, informed the father and mother that their son, who had been a victim of amnesia for two years, "had wandered off" two days before his body was discovered. The message said his grandmother had not been worried, as she had thought he would turn up alone somewhere on the island.
A telegram said the details of the tragedy were being forwarded by letter, which is expected here to-day.
Henry Blakely MacLeod gained wide publicity during the twenty months he was missing and counted as dead by his family after disappearing from Camp Merritt, N. J., June 27, 1918. During all that time it is believed he was suffering from amnesia and unable to recall his name or identity.
A reward of $1,000 was offered some time after his disappearance by his father for any information of his whereabouts, dead or alive.
Blakely remembered his name last March in a cell in the city jail at Richmond, Va. He was arrested while loitering on a railroad track. The shock seemed to clear his mind and he wrote to his father.
Father Claims His Son
The clergyman went to Richmond and brought his son to Washington, where he was treated in an army hospital for several weeks. He received an honorable discharge and was taken to the family home at 151 Central Park West.
In June Dr. MacLeod took his son and daughter, Jean, to Prince Edward Island, where their grandmother lives, to spend the summer. Dr. MacLeod returned September 1 and Blakeley was to come home this week, as the family is to move to Brownsville in a few days.
Dr. MacLeod had told members of the family and friends that he was much encouraged over his son's condition after the months in Canada.
Dr. and Mrs. MacLeod were prostrated last night an could not be seen. A member of the family said the young man "had never been right." He said Blakely was extremely bright in his studies, but that something seemed to have upset his mental processes about the time he ran away from Princeton, and since then he had been a great care to the family. He had wandered off before while at Prince Edward Island, but had returned.
It was pointed out that Blakely was a good swimmer and physically strong. He is said to have swum across the St. Lawrence River.
Besides his father, mother and sister, he is survived by a small brother, Malcolm James Jr., three years old.
Find A Grave Contributor: Chloe, #47159257
Son of Malcolm and Edith Macleod
New York Tribune (NY., NY.), P. 9, Col. 4
Mon., Sep. 13, 1920
MacLeod Gone 2 Days Before Body Is Found
Son of New York Clergyman Believed to Have Suffered From Amnesia in Canada, Where He Was Drowned
Few Details of Tragedy
Youth, Who Disappeared From Camp Merritt in '18, Alone at Time of Death
Henry Blakely MacLeod, son of the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Macleod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, had been missing more than two days, when his body was found in the waters about Eldon, Prince Edward Island, off the mainland of Nova Scotia, a relative said yesterday.
From the meager telegraphic details of the drowning last week sent by his grandmother, Mrs. Donald Macleod, with whom he had been spending the summer, members of the family believe he met death during one of his frequent spells of mental derangement.
The first news of the tragedy was received by Dr. Macleod Friday night. The telegram from his grandmother said simply that Blakely had been drowned and would be buried in the family cemetery there.
Suffered From Amnesia
Subsequent messages, the first of which was received yesterday, informed the father and mother that their son, who had been a victim of amnesia for two years, "had wandered off" two days before his body was discovered. The message said his grandmother had not been worried, as she had thought he would turn up alone somewhere on the island.
A telegram said the details of the tragedy were being forwarded by letter, which is expected here to-day.
Henry Blakely MacLeod gained wide publicity during the twenty months he was missing and counted as dead by his family after disappearing from Camp Merritt, N. J., June 27, 1918. During all that time it is believed he was suffering from amnesia and unable to recall his name or identity.
A reward of $1,000 was offered some time after his disappearance by his father for any information of his whereabouts, dead or alive.
Blakely remembered his name last March in a cell in the city jail at Richmond, Va. He was arrested while loitering on a railroad track. The shock seemed to clear his mind and he wrote to his father.
Father Claims His Son
The clergyman went to Richmond and brought his son to Washington, where he was treated in an army hospital for several weeks. He received an honorable discharge and was taken to the family home at 151 Central Park West.
In June Dr. MacLeod took his son and daughter, Jean, to Prince Edward Island, where their grandmother lives, to spend the summer. Dr. MacLeod returned September 1 and Blakeley was to come home this week, as the family is to move to Brownsville in a few days.
Dr. MacLeod had told members of the family and friends that he was much encouraged over his son's condition after the months in Canada.
Dr. and Mrs. MacLeod were prostrated last night an could not be seen. A member of the family said the young man "had never been right." He said Blakely was extremely bright in his studies, but that something seemed to have upset his mental processes about the time he ran away from Princeton, and since then he had been a great care to the family. He had wandered off before while at Prince Edward Island, but had returned.
It was pointed out that Blakely was a good swimmer and physically strong. He is said to have swum across the St. Lawrence River.
Besides his father, mother and sister, he is survived by a small brother, Malcolm James Jr., three years old.
Find A Grave Contributor: Chloe, #47159257
New York Tribune (NY., NY.), P. 9, Col. 4
Mon., Sep. 13, 1920
MacLeod Gone 2 Days Before Body Is Found
Son of New York Clergyman Believed to Have Suffered From Amnesia in Canada, Where He Was Drowned
Few Details of Tragedy
Youth, Who Disappeared From Camp Merritt in '18, Alone at Time of Death
Henry Blakely MacLeod, son of the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Macleod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, Fifth Avenue, had been missing more than two days, when his body was found in the waters about Eldon, Prince Edward Island, off the mainland of Nova Scotia, a relative said yesterday.
From the meager telegraphic details of the drowning last week sent by his grandmother, Mrs. Donald Macleod, with whom he had been spending the summer, members of the family believe he met death during one of his frequent spells of mental derangement.
The first news of the tragedy was received by Dr. Macleod Friday night. The telegram from his grandmother said simply that Blakely had been drowned and would be buried in the family cemetery there.
Suffered From Amnesia
Subsequent messages, the first of which was received yesterday, informed the father and mother that their son, who had been a victim of amnesia for two years, "had wandered off" two days before his body was discovered. The message said his grandmother had not been worried, as she had thought he would turn up alone somewhere on the island.
A telegram said the details of the tragedy were being forwarded by letter, which is expected here to-day.
Henry Blakely MacLeod gained wide publicity during the twenty months he was missing and counted as dead by his family after disappearing from Camp Merritt, N. J., June 27, 1918. During all that time it is believed he was suffering from amnesia and unable to recall his name or identity.
A reward of $1,000 was offered some time after his disappearance by his father for any information of his whereabouts, dead or alive.
Blakely remembered his name last March in a cell in the city jail at Richmond, Va. He was arrested while loitering on a railroad track. The shock seemed to clear his mind and he wrote to his father.
Father Claims His Son
The clergyman went to Richmond and brought his son to Washington, where he was treated in an army hospital for several weeks. He received an honorable discharge and was taken to the family home at 151 Central Park West.
In June Dr. MacLeod took his son and daughter, Jean, to Prince Edward Island, where their grandmother lives, to spend the summer. Dr. MacLeod returned September 1 and Blakeley was to come home this week, as the family is to move to Brownsville in a few days.
Dr. MacLeod had told members of the family and friends that he was much encouraged over his son's condition after the months in Canada.
Dr. and Mrs. MacLeod were prostrated last night an could not be seen. A member of the family said the young man "had never been right." He said Blakely was extremely bright in his studies, but that something seemed to have upset his mental processes about the time he ran away from Princeton, and since then he had been a great care to the family. He had wandered off before while at Prince Edward Island, but had returned.
It was pointed out that Blakely was a good swimmer and physically strong. He is said to have swum across the St. Lawrence River.
Besides his father, mother and sister, he is survived by a small brother, Malcolm James Jr., three years old.
Find A Grave Contributor: Chloe, #47159257
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