The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
Personal Resemblance.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Since the story OF Mr.. Ross search
for his lost son Charley there has
been nothing so pathetic as the story
of young Conant OF his search for his
lost father, the former editor OF
Harper's Weekly, who disappeared
so mysteriously a year ago.
Some very curious adventures have
grown out OF his researches. In the
first place, the day after the father
disappeared and the o was search
ing for him in a Jersey city hotel the
father was in an upper room of that
hotel. But as the night porter didnot
know him and he hadfailed to register
his name, the son was quite unaware
of his nearness to him. Soon after the
son left, the father came down stairs,
and in the temporary absence OF the
clerk, who did know him, put his name
on the register, went out o. the hotel
and was never seen again. Thus the
two almost crossed each others tracks
but without knowing it, separated
again and all trace ofthe wanderer was
absolutely lost.
The search for him revealed the fact
that a much larger number of persons
than is generally supposed disappear
and are sought by their friends; and
thatmany persons closely resemble one
another except in one or two particu-
lars. One corpse differed from an ex-
act description Of his father only in
the fact that it's two front teeth were
not artificial like the missing mans
teeth. Then q newspaper man who
could, like Conant, speak three or four
foreign languages, applied for assist
ance in q newspaper office near Louis.
vile, KY, and was afterward found
drowned; but it was not Mr.. Co.
nant. Aman all three OF whose names,
Samuel Stillman Conant, were the
same as the EDITORS, sent a communi-
cation to a weekly paper in New York
from a poor-house in New England.
On Commits brother going to him, he
found that it was not the one he was
in search of, but a man whom he had
known in business several years be-
fore. On coming home from Europe
after a vain seach, young Conant saw
the perfect image OF his father sitting
at & table in the steamers cabin, with
the same hair, forehead, nose,
mustache, ring, eyeglasses and
attitude, while writing. The son
stood transfixed at the thought of this
unexpected end of his search. Just
then the man arose. He was half a
head shorter than his father.
AS in the case Of young Ross, ex-
ternal resemblance would mislead the
relatives into disappointing visits half
across the continent, and even to tele-
graph to Australia to take into Gus.
tody the alleged fugitive, when there
was no such person ever on board the
ship. The family still believe him
alive, and have a theory that he is
hiding in New York, which he might
do for years undetected.
Another close personal resemblance
was that between Pierce, the Texas
stock man killed near Atlanta, Ca,
last December, and the husband of
the woman who said it was her hus-
bands body; that his real name was
Weaver, which he changed to Pierce
on going to Texas. But Weaver has
just been found alive. He has the
marks by which his widow and
Others identified the body when she
sued the railroad for damages.
Whether she was actually deceived by
the points Of likeness, or took advan-
tage of it to sustain her claim against
the railroad, the closeness Of the
likeness was quite noteworthy.