Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-04-16
DEAD BUT LIVING.
singular k cord and Experience ofaTexan
Captured in Georgia.


Captur, q in Georgia.
Deputy Sheriff Lem Patrick, OF Har.
rold, Tex, and a prisoner, Henry
Schaeffer, passed through Memphis last
night, says dispatch. They came from
Atlanta and took the Iron Mountain
ronte on their way to Texas.
-Four years ago." said the deputy
sheriff, as he leaned his vest against a
lunch counter, Henry Schaeffer was
prosperous citizen Of Clarendon, Tex.
He was In the hotel business and was
the manager of the leading hostelry of
the place. He made money easily, and
it went even easier than it came. He
was young. He had green cloth outfit
placed in his hotel, and every night he
would proceed to back his own game. IL
he had attended to his own business
he would have been rich man in few
years, but he didn't, and one fine morn
ing he was missing. There was q clamor
from the creditors, but nothing more
There were no assets. 1t then developed
that Schaeffer had wife in Kansas City.
It was presumed that he had gone to her
and the police OF that city were wired to
watch out for him. Rut he did not show
up in Kansas City, and it was couple
of months before he was heard from
again, and this time the news was start
! ling. Henry Schaeffer was dead-killed
In railroad accident in Colorado. The
information came through the daily
papers. 1t seemed Schaeffer was riding
with companion ON the train when it
| went through bridge. The companion
escaped unhurt, but Schaeffer was
crushed beyond recognition. The
remains were taken to village
on the line of the railroad not far
| from where the accident occurred, and
| there, among strangers, were given bur-
| ial, mourned by sympathetic residents of
the place, to whom it was proven be-
yond doubt by the companion that the
deceased was Henry Schaeffer, as the
| companion showed letters and documents
| found on the remains that left no room
for further speculation.
"a year later Schaeffer's widow at
| Kansas City received a call from the
J husband for whom she wore weeds. The
man plausiblY explained his absence, and
| though he never effected O. reconciliation
with his wife, he visited her several
| times. He soon left her again. The
| police were put on his trail, and they
learned that in the Colorado rail-
road wreck Schaeffer imperson-
ated his companion, so as
| to give the public to understand
that it was himself who was killed. Eut
all efforts to locate him were futile until
a couple Of weeks ago, when he was cap
tured In Atlanta. The arrest was acct
dental. He was arrested for drunken
ness, but some Of the documents found
on his person gave clew to one of the
Atlanta police force, who happened to
know of the case at Clarendon. Scaeffer
was supposed to be dead. Only the Off
| GERS knew about his second appearance
on earth, and his appearance on the
| scene Of his early life will create big
| surprise"
The prisoner listened while the officer
told the story. He is a liquor soaked
wreck now, but still bears the appear
ance Of former gentility. He does not
seem to view his position with fear.
"You must not consider death as
always fatal" said he when Patrick had
concluded