The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-05-27

ings Of the lawyers, so worked upon
the good men and true that they rem
dered averdict Tor the plaintiff for tho
Tense adopted by the company invofv-
the fact that his policy. in their COM
tember, Isl /, and the testimony of the
drowned at IL o'ciock at night on the
I'D of September lS7l, two days after
the expiration Of the policy, ana
second point was that he was not
drowned at all. A new trial was
granted. and the company immediate.
" put detectives at work on the case.
The boat at st. Louis was visited, and
the ehambermaid declared that the
woman came on board as stated, but
that she was alone! Tnen commenced
search for the missing husband, and
pow We enter upon the part of the
story which partakes more particular.
changes, and Galesbure becomes the
theater of action Last Tuesday Morn
inc there arrived in this city Mr..
William S. Hubbard, president of the
Franklin Insurance Company, of In
dianapolis. 1t appears that through
information received. from Tennessee,
the company had been advised to look
for their man in this city, aud a dis
patch was thereupon sent to City
Marshal Wcrtz, giving 3 description
of Daniel X. Boswell. That officer
commenced working up the case, and
fine llx- SvaaffAI he ha ID
to be his man, and telegraphed de-
scription of him to the company. This
they considered even better descrip,
ton of Boswell than they had sent
here. This accounts for the presence
of Mr. William S. Hubbard among u.s.
The man they were after was known
among the people of the city as st
GENERAL ISAAC STEWART HOWE.
Mr.. Hubbard consulted the law firm
of Hannaman & Willoughby, when
the matter was discussed in all it's
bearings and line of action agreed
upon. After viewing General Howe,
Mr.. Hubbard was not personally we'll
acquainted with Boswell to be able to
decide whether he and Howe were the
same person or not, and consequently
telegraphed ex-Sherif Swaine, Of Nun
cie, Indiana. who was intimately ac-
quainted with him, Sheriff Swain arri-
we'd here on Thursday Messrs Hub
bard Swaiue and Wetrz then sought
an interview with the general at his
boarding house. Swaine at first dis
guised himself, but subsequently, on
advice of counsel, decided to face his
man and make clean statement of
the object Of their visit. Arriving at
the house, the general made his ap-
pearance and saluted his visitors.
81 eff Swaine then made the object Of
their visit known, and asked Howe If
he knew him. How acknowledged that
he did, and exclaimed, "You've got
me boys!" Then aconversation ensued
in which Howe told incidents which
occurred at indianapolis and at Mum
Gle, which Mr.. Swainc well recollec-
ted, so that there was no doubt but
what Howe was Boswell and Boswell
Howe. But the most sing ular part OF
the affair was that Howe denied being
Boswell, and claimed that he never
had any other name than Howe. Gen
eral Howe acknowledges going to St.
Louis with his wife, but instead f be
ing sick and falling overheard. he
claims the boat they were on was
blown up, that he succeeded in reach
ing the shore on a log OF wood. and
supposed that his ea,
- WIFE WAS DROWNED.
Since then he has been a wanderer
on the face of the earth. While the
president of the company and the
sheriff we're satisfied that he was the
man they were after, they did not con-
slider that they had authority that
would warrant them In holding him.
They therefore returned to Indiana
polls to attend to the woman. The
General is a short man with long iron
gray hair and whiskers, wears gold
spectacles, and carries gold headed
cane During his residence in this city
he has been ingaged in the patent
right business. herse trading, etc !, nd
for the past ten weeks has boarded
with Mrs. BITgett, On kellogg street,
next to the Methodist parsonage.
Many of our citizens recollect him as
man Of considerable erudition, ex-
tensiye travel, and personal acguain-
tance among men of national feputa-
tion. Our reporter this noon visited
his late residence, and heard the fol-
lowing regarding his movements there.
a short-time since lady upwards OF
thirty years of sge came to the board
ing house and remained few days. She
claimed to be his niece, aud stated
that she was engaged in lawsuit in
which all her property was involved,
and pending the issue Uncle" was
supporting her. FRIDAY morning I'm
ele' got up and said that his niece
was eogaged in lawsuit that required
his absence, and that he would send
for his trunks. This morning the
trunks were called for. and now Gen
eral Isaac Stewart Howe. with his
niece and their baggage. have departed
from our midst. What the next phase
of this interesting story will be re-