The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-24
HE LOOKED LIKE ME-.

my attention was attracted to two elder.
~ ladies, who sat near where stood
The only reason for my noticing them
was the fact that they seemed to be
quite agitated about me
They shot glances at me and put their
heads close together and talked in ear
NEST tones, and they carried it so far
that, while no one else in the car no
aiced it so far as saw. was so con-
scious that | was being observed and
discussed that 1 was on the point of get
ting out They were not unladylike,
but were evidently so much occupied
with what interested them whatever
Il was, that they did not realize that
they were making things uncomfortable
for person of my sensitiveness
They left the car at the Miami railroad
station, and both, as they went out, took
. square look into my face, averted
though it was
Some two weeks after this affair one
of the same ladies came into my 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, although
neither made the least Int4ination that
we had ever seen each other before
did 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 had an opportunity to OBJ
serve them closely They were both past
9ifty-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 warrant for
my arrest, and wished me to go with him
TO the Hammond street police station
should shirk the truth if did not ad,
init 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 fugitive from jus
tice, with the usual forlnalities
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 hlm not TO hesi
tate 1t was quite dusk, and we made a
solemn little procession along Third
lo
Arrived there. observed that | was
not unexpected and then was con
fronted by a comely young woman, who
,evinced from the first degree of inter
est in me which seemed like volcano
of suppressed affection The charge
against Murray was that he had desert
ed his wife. but had omitted to desert {
lot of her money and bonds I was sup
posed TO be Murray, and the young wo
man was Mrs. Murray
In vain | assured them that was no
Murray. and that had no stolen none,
or bonds They cared nothing for tn,
property, but they implored 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 Murra,
seemed to have no effect whatever, ant
finally Mrs. Murray told the officers tina
] had mark on my left side above tn
hip which would settle the question. bu
before they seized me to examine m,
person the late Captain James L. Ruffin
who knew me well. and whom, o
course. the officers knew. happened in
and upon his assurance l was dis
CHARGED 1t was solemnly promised ol
all sides that nothing should be sai
about the affair, and all record of it, a
far as possible. was then and there de
gtroyed.
Before we separated, however. Mn
Murray spoke inN the tenderest way c
the baby. and the next day. at their n
quest. I called at the Gibson House an
there saw the baby, and confirmed my
self in the belief that they were good
very well to do people in a frantic scare
of the absent Mr.. Murray. whom the
wished not to punish for any wrong, {
supposed wrong that he had done, br
rather to induce him to return to thel
and receive from them nothing but loy
and kindness
AS ] could be of no service 60 thei
further. they offered tospay me iherall
flor the professional work which lws
expected to do.--which they said WI
naught They had followed me by il
auiries after seeing me sin'fhe streetc
and had come to the Office oniyto assn,
sthemselves- that ] was really the ms
they were after. go -S
Eleft .fhem with the fact impressed /
my mind that there was man at larl
who 30 closely ,resemhied me, that b
own wife .as deceived hoped !
would always behave we'll
In the early summer of 1875 \ w
married and my wife and spent Il