The New York herald., 1877-11-18
THE DEAD ALIVE.
A SON WHO IDENTIFIED HIS FATHER IN THE
MoRGUE AND AFTERwARD MET HIM IN THE

SON WHO IDENTIFIED HIS FATHER IN THE
MoIGUE AND AFTERwARD MET HIN IN THE
STREET.
The proprietor OF large tenement house at No. 10
Essex street and his housekeepcr discovered in the
cellar Wednesday last the corpse OF a worn to
emanciation, clothed In rags ana covered with
min. Want and exposure had 80 altered tho face
that IL retained few of the characteristics that
marked IL IN life; but tho Hebrew cast Of
countenance tho dark hair and dun beard Afforded
was thought sufficiently peculiar features to admit Of
positive identification. The body lying tho
Morgue when LOUIS Samucls, OF No. l56 West Thirty
third street. looked upon IT, and he at once recog-
nzed tho countcnonce az that OF his father, who
had eit homo u mouth before and OF whom no trace
had been found He made application tor the corpse,
and TO Deputy Coroner Cushman he made the follow
ing afidavt:-
live No l5e wost Thirtythrd street; have recog-
nzed the body lying dead the Morgue. taken
there No % hssex street tnAt Of my father Isaac
samuc aged htytwo natiye OF Prussia he has In
foi thirty years aud has been tailor occupa
ern yeaSs h. had eloas store st No sea seventh ave-
but owing TO his habit q drinking he los, eyerythpg
weeks he has also been biackwclfs isiand has
several he len ths house
ago and have not him ave since; nave searched
hm but could not lind him during these three months
he has applied 10 of his relatives aid family
tried to take care OF him.
FUNERAL PREPARATIONS
Samuels notified hls relatives, aud samuel Goodman,
OF No. 2os East Seventy nitD, VINO was tue brothcrn
law oi the MISSING man, went to the Morguc and ex-
pressed hts conviction that tho corpse that Of
aac Samuels. 1he body was taken homo, the house
drapcd in mourning aud preparations made
inter the deceased plot which sec rod
IN the Jewish cemetery.
A very remarkable rencon,ro on Friday evening,
however relieved the iamily OF ali cares, 50 lar
funeral concerned. Lou's Samucls
coming along Canal street when, at tho
corner OF Elm, man going tho other
direction confronted him. The astonshment of the
may be imagined when ne recognized the familiar face
OF his atbcr What specuatiops touching supernatural
appearances entered LOUIS head at that moment
Tue public must be IN ignorance oil, but ne reas
sured Immediately for the appariton much more
CHEEKY aud good natuTcd THAI II ~ customary Tor
spcctres be- and Il at launched into torrent
OF questions touching family anairs. Louis could
doubt longer. His atner was before him the
npsh ana mis- relatives were lamenIing
over the remains Of unknown stranger. The
feelings OF samues' family when It's sup.
posed dciupct head appeared beside tue biei
can be better imagined than described Whatever
sentiments otd saac uttered seeing his dead coun
terpart been ransutted to the outside pub
lie, but tDcrc is lttle doubt tnat the new arrival
changed a scene OF mourning into OF JOY and con-
graduation, whcn was shared in by all oil the famy's
friends except perhaps the undeftakcr. Meantime
the unknown dead VINO came near min Cling his
ashes with those OF the deceased Samuels taken
IN charge by Hebrew Bsuevo.onI society, who VIII
bury him to-day.