Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-08-08
HE LOOKED LIKE Me


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
ticed it so far as saw. was so con-
scious that | was being observed and
discussed that was on the point of get
ting out. They were not unladylike,
but were evidently so much occupied
with what interested them, whatever
it 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
a 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 intimatiOn 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
fifty-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
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 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 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 a comedy 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 O
lot of her money and bonds. was sup.
posed to be Murray, and the young wo
man was Mrs. Murray.
In vain assured them that was moi
Murray, and that had no stolen money
or bonds. They cared nothing for the
property, but they implored me to &C.
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 mark on my left side above tbs
hip which would settle the question, but
before they seized me to examine my
|. person the late Captain James l.. Ruffin
who knew me well, and whom, Of
course, the officers knew. happened in
and upon his assurance was dis
charged. 1t was solemnly promised or
all sides that nothing should be said
about the affair, and all record of it. al
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 70
quest. | called at the Gibson House anC
/ there saw the baby, and confirmed my
self in the belief that they were good
very well TO do people in frantic search
of the absent Mr.. Murray, whom they
wished not to punish for any wrong. o.
supposed wrong that he had done. bu
rather TO induce him to return to then
and receive from them nothing but low
and kindness.
AS ] could be OF no service to then
, further. they offered to pay me LIBERAL,
for the professional work which wa
expected to do, which they said wa
naught. They had followed me by in
quiries after seeing rue in the street car
and had come to the Office only to assur,
themselves that ! was really the inal
they were after.
! left them with the fact impressed OF
, my mind that there was n man at largr
/ who 80 closely resembled Inc that hi
own wife Tas deceived. | hoped HI
: would always behave well
In the early summer of 1875 ! WE,
married, and my wife and spent til,
! summer and fall at Green Lake. in cen
) trail Wisconsin In the latter part o
3 September | Joined party made mp &
DIR. Kimball, of the United States army