The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-02-21
A Curious Story-Case of Andrew
Weatherwax.
Correspondence of the New York Evening
Post

Post.
Whitehall, n, Y, February. q. 1868.
| The frost bound shores of Lake Cha M
| plain are not without their excitements ::
! the sailors have leisure to discuss their ex
perlences OF the last aud other summers in
| their comfortable winter quarters The
murder of Andrew Weatherwax in 1856.
and his reported re appearance at his home
| last October, afford topics for far more and
ilveiler conversations at the tavern than
do the prospects of the next Presidency.
A man living here declares that he saw
Andrew Weatherwax dead, Just after he
had been taken from the water at Pike
River, 10 1856. Yet here is man who
| comes TO Lake Champlain as a sailor, and,
after few weeks spent ia his avocation.
goes to the Weatherwaxes and claims them
a, as relatives, and they admit his claim
Inc account OF the murder is as follows
Andrew Wcathef#ax sailed as hand"
TIth his cousin, Captain John G.
Weatherwax, from Pattsburgh, In June.
1896, for port in Canada, At Pike
river on the eastern shore of the lake,
"hlle the boat was at the wharf, the two
cousins quarreled, it was night, and thew
were at the bow Of the boat when the
quarrel eliminated. The third man of the
boat was at the stern, and could not see
the Captain and his cousin; but he heard
their words and their blows distinctly.
with heavy sound as OF club upon a
human head the alteration ceased. The
captain soon went to the stern of the boat
without his cousin nor did he explain
what he thought had become Of him. An
drew nat was found in a pool of blood
next morning. The circumstances attend
Il
Vlnced his acqualntanced that he had been
murdered
A week after his disappearance a body
was found in the water at the wharf where
tn, boat had been moored. Several vii
nesses testified that the clothing and the
body were identical with Andrews clo,b
lug and body. The Captain was tried
for murder in Montreal, and acnuitted
Tor want OF evidence" He was confined
IN Jal! there year on the charge. One OF
the witnesses declares that he was eleven
days IN Montreal waiting to be called on;
but his testimoney was not used. r. is
he who now reiteratcs bis belief in ,bc
murder.
1t Is said that the CAPTAIN returned "a
his home detected and despised. And thus
has he lived for ten years. Las, Oc,ohera
man appeared on the lakes as Andrew
Meatherwax, 10 the great astonishment of
all the Neatherwaxes, and all other people
who ever knew MIN. He reco!lects well
his early playmate and the scenes of his
youth; but he does not remember the al
tercatlon OF 1856. nor bis fellow boatmep,
so well as they would like to have him re
member them. Indeed they say if he can.
not remember certain transactions which
they had with him from time to time. then
he cannot be Andrew Wea,herwax.
One man has made a Journey to
PlattsIburgh to see the new Andrew, and he
says that he is not the original Andrew. It
lsthousht by the incredu!ous that the Can.
tam has contrived a substitute in order to
GEAR his name of the stigma which rested
upon 1t; The returned Andrew SAYS that
ne lett the boat in anger; that he drank
deep! that he shipped as sailor to
China, Australia. and other distant lands
in various ships.
The witnesses to the dead body are very
earnest IN their endeavors to ascertain the
whole truth. They have not vet been con
vlnced that Andrew could possibly be alive,
since they once saw him deai. When tie
lake opens, an opportunity will be afforded
to Andrew, if such he is, to show himself
to the hunters Of people who knew him
IN 1856, engaged in his old occupation. If
he bears the inspection and examination
that Will then Ia ke place at the different
ports OF the lake: he will be cordially wei
coined back to civilization. Ny,binp else
Will settle the question.