The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-16

widow applied for letters of administers
ton on some property that had be
longed to Theophilus. 1t was at this
point that the trouble began. A brother
of the alleged deceased stepped in and
objected. In the first place, he said,
the property belonged to him, under an
assignment from Theophilus, and in the
second place, Theophilus was still in the
flesh. The body fshcd out of Boston
Harbor was some other mans. The
ophilus was alive and could be pro-
duced at any moment. And sure
enough he was produced-at least a
man claiming to be the original Youngs
came forward and said he was The
ophilus. That made the plot thicken.
Mrs. Youngs told the man right up to
his face that he was Manufacturing.
She had never seen him before, and he
was not her husband-the poor dead
and gone Theophilus all. The idea!
But the man insisted that he was The
ophilus and has stuck to it ever since.
The matter went to referee, who is
still trying to find out whether the man
is Theophilus Youngs or some one else,
and who seems to be in fair way to
wind up in lunatic asylum before he
gets to the end of the conundrum.
1t was a comical scene thattook place
before the referee a couple of days ago.
The man stepped up to be examined for
strawberry marks. The woman was
ready. She knew exactly what sort Of
strawberry marks her husband was in
the habit of wearing. One was big
scar on the left leg, below the knee.
Another was a silver plate on one heel,
that had been injured. A third was a
mole on the left shoulder. A fourth
was scar in the back part of the head
A fifth was another scar under the chin.
There should not be any trouble about
identifying man covered all over with
trademarks in that way. The woman
did not examine for all of them. The
only ones she bothered about were chin
and cerebellum marks. The sweet and
beautiful expression on her face as she
clawed through the hair of the alleged
Theophilus was sight to behold. The
scar she was hunting for could not be
found. If this was the real Theophilus,
he had lost the scar somewhere, and
the one under his chin has been mislaid,
too--that is if the real Theophilus ever
had such scars. "There," said the
woman, with an elegant sheer playing
around her lips, 81 told you that man
was not my husband. Theophilus is
dead. This person is an impostor.
But the person would not be put down.
He sneered back with interest, and did
not seem disconcertedin the least by the
woman's reputation of him. To the
spectators the scene was a fine bit of
comedy. They had not seen anything
better on the stage. To the referee it
was new bother. He was puzzled
more than ever. The man was just as
positive that he was Theophilus Youngs,
even without the strawberry marks, as
the woman was that he was not. 1t is
as queer case in its way as the famous
Tichborne one. Is the man the original
Theophilus, or is he some one elsep
The woman seems rather snappy and
spiteful-just the sort of woman to
stick to a thing, willy-nilly, when she
had once set her mind on it. If the
man is really her husband, she is facing
it out pretty well, anyway. Several
persons have identified him as the true
Theophilus, but she says no just as firm
ly as she did at first. When asked her
age, the other day, she confessed to Sc,
but not over gracefully. Anyone could
see in her face, when the lawyer put the
question,
"You're an impudent fellow, I know you are,
know you are, know you are" d.
And her answer had sharp snap in it
that made everybody smile. How this
curious conundrum will be solved is
more than the present chronicler can say
just now. ~.