The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-03-27
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Singular Record nnd Exper1sncs ofaTsxan
Captured In 0eoFeis.

Captured In Georgia.
Deputy Sheriff Lem Patrick, Of Har.
rold, Tex, and . prisoner, Henry
Sehaefer, passed through Memphis last
night, says q dispatch. They came from
Atlanta and took the iron Mountain
route on their way to Texas.
-Four years ago." said the deputy
sheriff, as he leaned his vest against 8
lunch counter, "Henry Schaeffer was a
prosperous citizen of Clarendon, Tex.
He wasin the hotel business and was
the manager of the leading hostelry Of
tho place. He made none easily, and
1T went even easier than it came. He
was young. He had q green cloth outfit
placed In his hotel, and every night he
would proceed to back his own game. If
he had attended to his own business
he would have been o rich man in a few
years, but he didn't, and one fine morn
ing he was missing. There was aclamor
from the creditors, but nothing more.
There were no assets. It then developed
that Schaeffer had a wife in Kansas City.
1t 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 a couple
OF months before he was heard from
again, and this time the news was start
ling. Henry Schaefer was dead-killed
IN a railroad accident in Colorado. The
information came through the daily
taporss 1t seemed Schaeffer was riding
with q companion on the train when it
went through a bridge. The companion
escaped unhurt, but Schaeffer was
crushed beyond recognition. The
remains we're taken to q village
on the line Of the railroad not far
from where the accident occurred, and
there, among strangers, were given bur
Tiial, mourtied By sympathetic residents Of
the place, to whom it was proven be-
yond q doubt by the companion that the
deceased was Henry Schaeffer, as the
companion showed letters Inducements
found on the remains that left no room
for further speculation.
ga year later Schaefer's widow at
Kansas City received a call from the
husband for whom she wore weeds. The
man plausibly explained his absence, and
though he never effected a 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. But
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
or his person gave a clew to n 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
or earth, and his appearance on the
scene Of his early life will create a 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.