Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-04
DR.TYNAN BOBS UP
After Having Been Declared
Dead by the Court.
FOUND BY A SPIRITUALIST

Slater Attributes His Discovery to the
Spirit of His First Wife, But the Po.
Ices Claim is More Material-Meet.
ing of Husband and Wife.
SAN Francisco, September 2S.-Dr.
Thomas E. lyman of Modesto, the capi-
talist who disappeared October Is, 1892,
and for information of whom Mrs. w.
nan offered reward of $4,000, returned
to the city this morning. DR.. lyman
came from Reno, New, and Immediately
upon his arrival went to the Grangers'
Bank. The two years absence of the
doctor has wrought much change in his
appearance. His once tall and massive
figure is now shrunken and STOPPING.
MANY of his old friends and business ac-
ouaintances were in the bank to meet
him, and he greeted them in an absent
minded sort of way and acted generally
as one who was in dream and sur
prised at nothing. When asked where
he had been all this time he said in Bos.
ton, and refused to say anything further.
The meeting between Mrs. lyman and
her husband was remarkably common
place, and no emotion was shown by
either. Mrs. lyman is said not to have
seen her husband since his mysterious
disappearance, and was dressed in deep
mourning for his supposed death.
DR.. lyman is the heaviest property
owner in Modesto. He was also di-
rector of the Grangers' Bank in this city
and well 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
age when he disappeared. October l6
he was in the Grangers' Bank in this
/ city, and then there was paid over to
, him the sum of $4,000. From then un-
til now he has been supposed dead. In
, July, 1S93 his wife offered a reward of
, 50, 600 to any person who should furnish
, information that he was alive. No such
, information came. What was Temporal
, rily 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 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
: he was dead. John Slater, a local Spir-
itualist, gave to the Grangers' Bank the
- first authentic information about DIR.
lyman a few days ago. He said that the
missing physician was in Reno, and
l asked that some one be sent with him to
Reno. Accordingly Henry Mccormack,
who is connected with the bank, and
who knew DIR. 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 DIR. Tynan's first wife. He says:
! "May % was writing letter in my
! suite OF rooms in the Clarendon Hote
! in Boston. 1t was letter to my wife
- 1t was about 7 80 o'clock. Suddenly 8
:, as could be. Pm Rose Marvin lyman,
|
sure, and you will see my husband, Dr.
Thomas Z. lyman l went immediate
ly. did wait to finish my letter. The
number was that of a wellknown board
ing-house in central location, not more
= than twenty minutes walk from my ho-
tel. The street and number have prom
:. ised not to reveal. When | rang the
, bell | asked for DR.. lyman. They told
: me he was not there; but while l was
talking he came to the top OF the stairs
and spoke to me. | took him to the no.
tel, and we talked together until after
midnight. Then he went away, and !
made no effort to restrain him. For
three weeks l saw him occasionally.
Then he left Boston, and l returned soon
3 after to California. / saw Mrs. lyman,
) but she would not believe that / had
| seen the doctor. She believes it now.
Early in August went back and found
) the doctor again. We went to New York
together, and Monday, the 18th instant,
we left there, bound this way. We
stopped one day in Chicago and reached
, Reno, where | left DR.. lyman last Satur-
day."
Slater, it is understood, has the prom
ise of $1,000 and expenses. Mrs. lyman
!, would not fix any sum until she saw the
doctor, and this amount was agreed to
to-day. DIR. lyman will now take steps
in the Stanislaus county courts to have
himself declared being in the flesh, as
his estate, valued at 100000, has been
distributed among his heirs. The San
Francisco police are skeptical about the
Spiritualist's story, and hint that Dr.
lyman was induced to disappear by some
meaps unknown to them. DR.. lyman
himself is an ardent believer in Spirit
ualism. Captain Lees stated this after
noon that the police ascertained three
months ago that lyman was living quiz
etly in Brooklyn, N. Y, on the $4,000 he
had taken with him. He had been adj
vised by some Spiritualists in this city
to go away. The police, it is said, in
formed Tynan's relatives OF his where
abouts, who opened communication with
him, and the result finally was his re-
turn.
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