Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-31
A STRANGE STORY.
Remarkable Case Of Mista ken lslcutI Ity
In BrOOklyM-A Rom ance In Real Lift
-llove's Qua rrel and Its Results.

-Love's Quarrcl and Its Results.
From the Nov York Herald, July IL.
A very remarkable case of mistaken
identity has just been revealed in
Brookl lyn:
On the morning of the Sd of July the
body of q man about thirty years ol
age, was found in the water at the foot
Of Vandyke street, Brooklyn. The
hand Of the deceased was firmly secured
by rope to satchel, which was found
to contain seven large fiat irons. 1t
was also discovered that the deceased
had bullet-hole in his head, and a
box of percussion caps and nineteen
pistol cartridges in the hip pockets of
his pants. Some believed that the man
had committed suicide, while others
were of the opinion that he had met
his death by foul play. If he had been
murdered, it was agreed, he would
have been robbed but it was found on
searching his clothing that be had $21
in his possession. Strange as it may
appear, there was nothing about the
body except the clothing which would
lead to his identity. Coroner Jones
being notified. caused the body to be
moved to the Brooklyn Morgue, where
it was reviewed by a large number of
persons who had missing friends whose
appearance correspondent with that of
the deceased.
-Four days after the body had been
taken to the morgue, q lady residing in
Grant street, E. D., whose son.in.
law had been missing for two or three
weeks, called at the morgue and posi-
lively recognized the deceased as that
Of the missing man, Charles Diehl.
Diehl, she said, had married her
daughter contrary to her wishes, ard
they had not lived very happily to-
gether. He went of, she said, in fit
Of anger, and had in all probability
committed suicide. His wife, knowing
bis disposition better than her
mother did, said "No;" "if that
is the body of Charley, he was mur-
dered. He never committed suicide,
for it was not like him."
The uncle of Diehl also visited the
Morgue, as we'll as others who knew
him, and they all were firmly convinc-
ed that the unfortunate young man
had come to q sad end. His family
were thrown in great grief and set to
work at once to make preparations for
his funeral. Diehl had been employed
as agent for the Atlantic Life Insurance
Company in New York, and being very
we'll known In the vicinity in which he
resided, the funeral was largely attend
ed. The body was put in the family
vault and Mrs. Diehl mourned the loss
of a husband to whom, with all his
faults, she was deeply attached, and
dressed in the habilinents of widow.
Time wore on and nothing occurred
until yesterday to lead her to suspect
for moment that she was not a widow.
Yesterday, to her unbounded aston.
ishment, she received letter from her
husband, who was, when he mailed the
letter, at Key West. He wrote that he
regretted leaving her so abruptly re-
gretted his hasty temper; said he was
we'll, and hoped that nothing had oc.
CURED since his departure from the
city that might cause her any uneasi-
ness further than what she might feel
concerning her erring husband.
It required considerable effort on the
part of Mrs. Diehl to read the letter,
for, as may be imagined, she almost
tainted. She would have been more
surprised had her husband, whom she
supposed dead and buried in the family
plot, walked in and held out his hands
to her, but the letter was nearly as
great. She had buried some one for
her husband, and who could be Z Who
the man is who was buried by Mrs.
D'ehl is mystery which will probably
never be solved, for now the remains
have passed beyond recognition.