Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
HE LOOKED LIKE MIR.

my way home in Pendleton street 49,
my attentlon was attracted To two oIdo,
y ladies', who sat near whera c+oaa
ne only reason for my noticing them
was the fact that they seemed TO he
quite agltated about me.
Iney shot chances at me and nnt +Ioir
neads close together and talked in Gov
nest tones, and they carried if so far
snaC, Wnlle no one else in the car M
uced 1t so far as | saw, was 40 ron
sclous that | was being observed and
discussed that was on the point of get
ing out They were not unladvlika
out were evidently so much occnnied
win what interested them. whatever
u was, that they did not realize that
sney were making things uncomfortable
tor person of my sensitiveness.
Ihey left the car at the Miami railroad
station, and both, as they went out. took
square look into nv face avar+ad
though it was
Some two weeks after this affair one
OF the same ladies came into nv Office
and introduced herself as Mrs. Seymour
and desired some professional advice and
assistance. recollected her at once as
one OF the street car ladies. althouoh
neither made the least intimation that
we mad ever seen each other before.
old little writing, and she soon took
leave OF me, to come again in few DAYS
when something further was to be done
AT the next interview both the ladies
came, and l had an opportunity to OBJ
serve them closely They were both past
hty-one not far from sixty. Imagined
them to be ladies in good circumstances
as afterward appeared-and both were
without the least doubt, thoroughly well
bred and intelligent women. The second
lady gave her name as Miss Susan Tim
berlake.
Their business did not amount to
much, and had, in fact, very little in it.
but they saw me several times, and al
ways increased the air of mystery and
suspicion which surrounded them from
the first.
At the last interview we had in my
office, while we were together patrol
man came in, to whom one of the ladies
said in quiet tone, This is the man;
take him along"
The officer said he had a warrant for
my arrest, and wished me to go with him
to the Hammond street police station.
should shirk the truth if | did not adj
NIT that was appalled, and frightened.
However | looked, felt very pale. but
asked to see the warrant, which was pro-
duced 1t charged one Charles Wilson
Murray with being a fugitive from JUS
tice, with the usual formalities
quietly informed the man that | was not
Charles Wilson Murray. but one of the
ladies. more by a gesture than by any
spoken word, ordered him not to hest
tate. 1t was quite dusk, and we made a
solemn little procession along Third
street and up Hammond to the bastile
Arrived there, observed that | was
not unexpected. and then | was con,
fronted by comedy young woman, who
evinced from the first a degree of inter
est in me which seemed like a volcano
of suppressed affection. The charge
against Murray was that he had desert
ed his wife, but had omitted to desert a
lot of her money and bonds. was sup
man was Mrs Murray
In vain assured them that | was not
Murray, and that | had no stolen money
or bonds They cared nothing for the
property, but they lmpIored me to ac-
knowledge my identity and to return
with them to the home which was DESC
late without me- All that | said to con-
vince them that was not Murray
seemed to have no effect whatever, and
finally Mrs Murray told the officers that
] had a mark on my left side above the
hip which would settle the question, but
before they seized me to examine my
person the late Captain James l.. Rufin,
who knew me well, and whom, Of
course, the officers knew, happened in,
and upon his assurance | was dis
charged. 1t was solemnly promised on
all sides that nothing should be said
about the affair, and all record Of it, as
far as possible, was then and there de-
stroyed
Before we separated, however, Mrs.
Murray spoke in the tenderest way OF
the baby, and the next day, at their re-
quest. called at the Gibson House and
there saw the baby, and confirmed my
self in the belief that they were good,
very well to do people in a frantic search
of the absent Mr.. Murray, whom they
wished not to punish for any wrong, or
supposed wrong that he had done, but
rather to induce him to return to them
and receive from them nothing but love
and kindness.
AS | could be of no service to them
further, they offered to pay me literally
for the professional work which was
expected to do. which they sad was
naught. They had followed me by IN
ouiries after seeing me in the street car,
and had come to the Office only to assure
themselves that was really the man
they were after.
left them with the fact impressed on
nv mind that there was man at large
who SO closely resembled me that ms
own wife ~ds deceived hoped he
would always behave well
In the early summer OF 1910 was
married. and my wife and spent the
summer and fall at Green Lake, III cen.
trail Wisconsin. In the latter part OF
September Joined a party made up Oh
DIR. Kimball, of the United States army
General Ben. Harrison. now senator
Harrison. of Indiana, and Mr. LOCK
wood. of St Louis, to go on duck nunt
ON Lake Puckaway. some twenty mites
further into the wilderness.
Lake Puckaway is an extensive saai,
-, Iol,o overorown with wild rice ana
celery, and is famous breeding pla0e
for aquatic fowls. We had to go ~ "
- ,,5 +ba morning after our III