The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-10-04
RETURN Of DR.. lyman
10 Had Been Declared Dead
by the Courts.
,rrrR TWO YEARS ABSENCE.

,+tributes His Discovery to the
Shirt Of His First Wife, But the Po-
49,. claim is More Material-Meet-
of Husband and Wife.
CIV Francisco, September 28.-Dr.
-,,.r,.s T. lyman of Modesto, the capt.
+,l;st who disappeared October Is, 1892,
TOR information of whom Mrs. Ty-
an ~ o4ared reward of $4,000, returned
~ tbe city this morning. DIR. lyman
w. from Reno, New, and Immediately
o, his arrival went to the Changers
ponl The two years. absence of the
ACTOR has wrought much change in his
-a,oorancp. His once tall and massive
s,,ra Is now shrunken and STOPPING.
~. If his old friends and business &C
no ;s+oncae we're in the bank to meet
4 {;'' and he greeted them in an absent
n'indad sort Of way and acted generally
90 one who was in a dream and sur
".;.oj o+ nothing. When asked where
PnGod been all this time he said in Bos-
4or and refused to say anything further.
Tb , meeting between Mrs. lyman and
bar husband was remarkably common
nIaca and no emotion was shown by
Either. Mrs lyman is said not to have
saen her husband since his mysterious
REMEMBRANCE. and was dressed in deep
Taonrning Tor his supposed death.
DR. lyman is the heaviest property
gunner in Modesto. He was also di-
rector Of the Changers Bank in this city
and we'll known to people all over the
Pacific Coast, among whom he has been
familiar figure for years, his large
wealth, his prolonged vigorous strength
and business capacity having made him
conspicuous. He was over rs years of
ace when he disappeared. October Is
he was in the Changers Bank in this
citv and then there was paid over to
him the sum of $1,000. From then I'M
til now he has been supposed dead. In
july. 1898. his wife offered a reward of
500 to any person who should furnish
information that he was alive. No such
information came. What was Temporal
rilv supposed to be his body was report
ed sometimes in one place and sometimes
in another. The detectives, however,
insisted that they had traced lyman to
Sacramento, where he bought a ticket
to New York under the name of Thomas
S. Stanley, but farther than this they
could not trace him.
His wife searched for many months
for him, and finally concluded that he
was dead. On the showing made Judge
Minor of Stanislaus county decided that
be was dead. John Slater, a local Spir-
itualist, gave to the Changers Bank the
first authentic information about DIR.
lyman few days ago. He said that the
missing physician was in Reno, and
asked that some one be sent with him to
Reno. Accordingly Henry Mccormack,
who is connected with the bank, and
VINO knew DR.. lyman, went to Reno with
Slater. The Identification was complete.
Slater said that he knew DR.. lyman,
whom he had met east of the Rocky
Mountains. As to finding the doctor
Slater attributes it all to the spirit form
OF DR.. Tynan's first wife. He says:
May % | was writing letter in my
suite of rooms in the Clarendon Hotel
IN Boston. 1t was letter to my wife.
1t was about 7:30 o'clock. Suddenly
Woman's form stood over me-distinctly
as could be. I'm Rose Marvin lyman
1t said. Go to No. -- tonight,
sure, and you will see my husband, DIR.
Thomas Z. lyman / went Immediate
~. | did wait to finish my letter. The
number was that of well-known board
lng-house in central location, not more
than twenty minutes walk from my no.
tel. The street and number have prom
ised not to reveal. When I rang the
Dell | asked for DR.. lyman. They told
me he was not there; but while l was
talking he came to the top of the stairs
ana spoke to me. l took him to the no.
te!' and we talked together until after
midnight. Then he went away, and |
made no effort to restrain him. For
5 1nfee weeks l saw him occasionally.
Ihen he LETT Boston, and l returned soon
alter to California. l saw Mrs. lyman,
Out she would not believe that I had
seen The doctor. She believes it now.
EafIy IN August l went back and found
Tue doctor again. We went to New York
logeiher, and Monday, the 18th instant,
We lett there, bound this way. We
stopped one day in Chicago and reached
day." --''-A -'''' ''''''>
slater 1t is understood, has the prom
ise Of $1,000 and expenses. Mrs. lyman
SouIu not fix any sum until she saw the
uocIor, and this amount was agreed to
;!o-aay. DR.. lyman will now take steps
~ ~ the Stanislaus county courts to have
UNSET ~; declared being in the flesh, as
9;s estate, valued at 100000, has been
distributed among his heirs. The San
lSranclsco police are skeptical about the
TTp-IIluahSt's story, and hint that DIR.
- ;: nan was induced to disappear by some
leans :ssIS;, unknown to them. DIR. lyman
, r,.I!seh Is an ardent believer in Spirit
u"lslh. Captain Lees stated this after
, roou mat the police ascertained three
ntI ago that lyman was living qui-
6a4 IN Brooklyn, n. Y. on the SIS 900 he
, rao 5aSen with him. He had been ad-
to ,seu oy some Spiritualists in this city
So ~ away. The police, it is said, in
obane Iynan's relatives of his where
663; So who opened communication with
~ ana the result finally was his re-
The Interstate Fair.
Tacoma, September 27.-Ever since