The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-07-29
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Case Of Misfai,en Identity
IN Brooklyn Loves quarrel ANA ~

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Result.
From the New York Herald, July ISL
A very remarkable ease of mistaken
identity has just been revealed IN
Brooklyn.
On the morning OF the Sd of July the
body of n man about thirty years Of age,
was found IN the water ut the foot OF
Vandykc, Brooklyn. The hand of the
deceased was llrinly scared 10y u rope
TO satchel, and the satchcl was found
tocontain seven largo ilat-irons. TWAS
also discovered that the deceased had Il
bullet hole In his hcad and box of
percussion cAps and nineteen pistol
cartridges in the hip-pocket 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. lf.he had been
murdered IL was argued he would
have been rohbed; but 1t was found
on searching his clothing he had S2l In
his possession. Strange rs II may APP
pear, there was nothing about the body
except his clothing (which would lead
to his identity.
Co. oner .Jones being notified, caused
the body to be moved 10 the Brooklyn
NIorgdc, where 1t was reviewed by u
large number of persons who bhd
missing tiends whose appearance 60 e.
RESPONDED with that of the deceased.
lour DAYS after The body had been
taken to the Morpue, u lady residing in
Grand street, II. d., whose son-hl-laW
had been missing foe two or three
weeks, called at the Morgue, and posi-
lively recognized the deceased rs that
of the missing man, Charles Dlchl.
Dirhl, she said, had married her daugh-
ter contrary TO her wishes, and they
had not !livcd very happily together.
He went oil, she said, in u fiji of anger
and had, in all possibility, committee"
suicide. His wife, knowing his dispo-
sition better than her mother did, snld,
"No; If that Is the body of Charley he
was murdered He never committed
suicide, for It was not like him"
The uncle Of Dlchl also visited the
Nlorgue, as well as others who knew
him, and they were all firmly con-
WINGED that the young man had come
to n sad end. His family were thrown
in great grief aud set to work ut onre
to make preparations for his funeral.
Diehl had been employed asngent for
the Atlantic Life Insurance Company,
OF New York, and being pretty well
known In the vicinity in which he re-
sided, the funeral was largely attended,
The body was put in the family plot,
and Mrs. Diehl mourned the loss of II
husband to whom, with all his faults,
she was deeply attached, and dressed in
the habiliments OF II widow. Time
wore on, and nothing occurred until
yesterday to lead her to suspect for n
moment tbatsIe was not a widow.
Yesterday, to her unboundcd aston
ishmeut, 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;
regretted his hasty temper, said he was
well, 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.
Ii required considerable effort on tie
pat of Mrs. Dieil 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 arms
to her, but the letter was nearly us
great. She had hurled some one rs her
husband, perhaps some one elsc's hus-
band, and who could 1t he? Who the
man is that was buried by Mrs, Diehl
is n mystcl, which viii probably never
he solved, for the remains have now
passed beyond recognition.