Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-06-05
TWO TOO ALIKE.
Franlzlin Fyles' Contribution to the
Possible Cases"
n Startling Yarn of Twin Mcn-RcmarlS-
able Disposition of Supcriuous
FOot-The Mystery of Joseph
and Jasper IIaden.
lCOpYRIGuT, lSpl.1

The twin men wlfo ut the outset of
this possible case, we're in the station
at the outer end of an Adirondack
railway, had been physical counter
parts ut birth; but between the age of
forty winlIs and forty years they had
grown into n difference of appearance.
This account will tell how they became
two alike again In u manner very singu-
lar indeed. Jasper Haden was lean.
Joseph Iladcn was fat. In that dis
parity of size lay the contrast which
had nearly obliterated all similarity.
Both had grown to precisely the Same
height, and it is not likely that their
skeletons, if the two hundred pounds of
flesh had been removed from one and
the one hundred from the other, would
have shown any marked contrast-save
in one particular. Jasper had lost his
left foot. 1t had been cut off ut the
ankle. Nevertheless, he had won in u
feet mercantile race for wealth, while
his brother had Jagged in poverty as n
physician and surgeon.
1.-TWO tickets for Upper Lake and
RETURN" said Jasper to the young man
inside the window.
The face of Jasper was emaciated,
valids go into tho AdirondaclIs and die
there. Jasper looked like that kind of
n traveller; but in fact he was not very
badly off for health; and he had an i'm
pulsive way of using his fair degree of
strength.
Ibid you say: And rcturn?' " the
ticket seller asked, with look and q
tone commiserative of the man who,
apparently, was buying n seat that he
could never sit in.
Jasper was sensitive about his false
show of illness, and very retaliatory,
too. He reached through the window,
grippcd the young man, and hauled him
halfway out.
Don't hurt him." Joseph intcrposcd;
''he is aware now that you're not in n
prccarious state of health"
EYES," the assailed fellow said, going
back into his seat like rubber doll
that had been stretched and then go of.
"Yes-ycs-I know--you'ro not in a
prccarious state of health"
a man with sidelong eyes and edge
wise attitudes watched the episode with
very conspicuous slyncss. That man
was private detective. Sometimes he
! feared that people would not know it.
lie liked to be spy. When he was not
spying for pay he spied for pleasure.
So the Iladcns had not disappeared
into tho wilderness n week before he
knew who they were; how rich was tho
one who looked poor in health, and how
poor in money the one who looked rich
in health; and that the reason why tho
irasciblc one limpcd was that the left
foot was an artificial me mbcr.
The twins cncampcd on the shore OF
Bascom pond, and fishcd and hunted
with the help of Reuben Brown, an
Adirondack guido. Reuben showed
| them how to hook the trout and bullet
the deer, and he was their proxy in
much Of the sports which proved at all
dangerous to the dumb creatures. But
he has never revealed the fact of their
failure as sportsmcn, not only because
1t was professional secret, but also for
reason which will presently appear
The hunting and the fishing, such as
they were, went on for few days ordi'
narily. The campers told one another
that they liked the discomforts of camp
ing, and they convinced themselves that
the dampncss of the rainy days, the
chillincss of the windy nights and the
lack of sanitary things all the time