Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-12

ing his innocence -Four years afterward
the real criminal one Duboscq, was ar.
rested, and found to possess marvellous
personal likeness to Lesurques. Evil
dence Of a conclusive character was pro-
duced against him, and he was hanged,
an accomplice testifytng to his guilt aud
TO the entire innocence of Lesurques
YOUNG MANS ESCAPE
In 1S45 singular case of mistaken
identity occurred N a trial at Lowell,
Massachusetts. Some wretch had as
saulted little girls picking berries in the
fields near that city, and young man
was arrested two weeks after A Mr.
Houghton and his wife, who had run to
the rescue of the girls on hearing their
screams, swore positively that the prison.
er was the same man who had run away
In the bushes at the time of the assault
Inc Two girls were taken separately into
room, and each OF them pointed out the
prisoner as the fellow who committed the
assault upon them Other witnesses, TO
the number Of ten in all, swore TO his
identity with man whom they had seen
on the day before the crime near the spot.
On the other hand, the prisoner brought
six unimpeaChablc witnesses who testified
positively that they were with him in a
remote town in New Hampshire at the
very time the assault on the girls was
committed. This proved Glt6a, together
with the good character of the
young man charged, secured his
acquittal, the counsel for the Government
admitting the auth tG have been clearly
made out But the remarkable resem-
bance of the prisoner to the villain who
had committed the crime, and the fact that
the witnesses for the Government who
identified him were all mistaken, caused
the Judge who tried the case to remark
that it was almost sufficient to shake all
confidence in human testimony.
ASTONISHING FALSE PRETENSE.
A case more nearly resembling the
Tichborne claimant, being that Of lost
! son returning to his parent house, and re-
cognized and believed in as their true son,
while all the time an impOster, occurred
at Bangor, Maine, in 1919. The claimant
in this case was young man twenty four
years Of age, named Luther Hause, wild
fellow, son Of Luther lIause, of Troy,
Maine, who had worked at Bangor for
two or three years as common laborer
He imposed upon the family of James
Flause Ito whom neither he nor his father
was related by claiming to be their long
lost son, and obtained from them money
and clothing to considerable amount,
for which suit was finally brought against
him.
On the trial, James Hause, Esq, of
Corina, Me, who was an intelligent man.
Justice of the Peace, and respected by
all who knew him--a man of property
and strongly attached to his children
. tugtit;,I In "a had : D. Of
James Rowland Hause, who left home
about three years since in company with
a neighbor of his, gone to New Bedford,
and there shipped on whaling voyage in
a vessel by the name of Copia. The first
he Esquire Hause) ever heard of the de
PENDANT was through neighbors of his
who told him few months before that
they had seen his missing son Rowland
in Bangor and had asked him if his name
was not James Rowland Hause. He re-
piled no, he was Luther Hause Theyin-
sisted, however, that he must be Row
land, and urged him to return to his
fathers with them. This he refused to
do. A day or two later, Mr. Roberts, u
neighbor Of Mr.. Hause, went to Bangor,
and was charged by Mr.. llsuse ii he
saw his son Rowland to bring hun home,
Mr.. Roberts found the young man Luther,
brought him to his own house, and sent
for Mr. and Mrs. Hause. On their ar
rival Luther addressed the former rs
father" and then turned to Mrs, Hause,
threw his arms about her neck and kissed
her, saying GLOW do you do, mother ~
Mrs. H. did not at first believe that it was
her son. His eyes and hair were different
in color, and his complexion differed still
more widely In speaking To Luther, she
said SIS it possible that this is my long
lost son Rowland ?" He answered "Yes,
mother, it is me She then said to him;
off you are my son you have got scar
on your knee. He pulled up his pants
and showed IA scar on his knee. She then
said MY son had scar on his breast,
that was burnt in Mr. Andrews's shop"
He pulled away his shirt.bosom and
showed a scar on his breast. She then
said "My son Rowland had scar on
his neck, under his ear He held up his
neck and showed scar in that place on
his neck. She then said Zone of my
sons toes Tapped over the other" He
said "One of mine is So" The young
man then went to the house of Mr.. Hause,
and Mrs. flause asked him to show her
the room where he used to sleep, He
went up stairs to the room where her son
slept, and after some hesitation threw
himself upon bed standing IN the room,
and said This is my old bed" Mr.
llause and his vile were then fully salts
fled that he Was their son. and provided
him with clothes, etc, He remained at
their house some five months, and the
longer he stayed the more they were sat
isted he was thri. son.
A daughter OF Mr. James Hause tcsti
fed that she kept a school at Brewer Top.
posite Bangor and that she did not at
first know the defendant when he called
to see her, Doubling his identity, she
said to him "lf YOU are my brother you
have a scar on the head, where hurt you
when you were a little boy" She then
felt of his head and found a scar, and be.
came satisfied that he was her lost brother.
She so testified before the court.
Several of the neighbors of Mr., Hause
took this young man to be Rowland
Hause Young men who had been school,
mates with Rowland talked with Luther
about past times, and became convinced
that he was Rowland Flause
ON the other side, there were several
doubtful circumstances connected with
the young man, which led the father and
mother to continual uncertainty about
their putative son. And one day there
came over to Corinna Mr., Dow, who
positively recognized the youth as Luther
HausC, who belonged in Troy Mr. Thorn.
as Gardiner also told lIause that he rec.
ognized the young man as Luther Hause,
having lived near his fathers seven.
teen years and been very familiar with
him. Mr.. James llause now became so
stirred up that he determined To settle the