The evening times., 1896-09-08
IDENTIFIED 1HEWRONeMAH
Supposed Widow Learns That
Her Husband Lives.
THREW AWAY HER WEEDS
She Thought a "yild Man" Who Died
In an Asylum Was Her Spouse-In-
surance Company Was Ready to
Pay Her the Money, but She Re
fused to Accept 1t.

New York, Sept. S.-Mrs Robert Curry,
OF Nc. 20 Frederick street, in Newark, has
put aside her widows weeds --.-.-..,
She identified the body of man who
died at Morris Plains Insane Asylum as
that OF her husband. She mourned her hus-
band as dead.
ADinsurancc company WAS ready to pay
the money 1t had risked ON Curry's life.
But Mrs Curry had word from her brother
in law that he saw her husband in Penn
sylvania, and she has gone TO look for him.
Curry is or was-an Englishman, forty
eight years old He has lived in Ne eyark for
fifteen years and is machinist. He was
employed by the Newark Brass Company.
He has not worked for two months and.
his family say, has frequently acted
strangely" 90
Curry left his home August 3. His wife
and his four sons were much distressed,
but eonsolcd themselves with the Thought
that he had gone In search of employment
Ten days after Curry's departure a wild
man" was caught wandering in the woods
near Elizabeth.
HEAT CAUSED MADNESS.
He frightened people by suddenly APPEAR
ing in the road near them, only 10 disap-
pear again In the woods. After an exciting
chase by policemen and citizens the wild
man. was caught, although he fought des-
perately No one could identify him and
he was sent to the State Asylum for the
Insane at Morris Plains. A day or two
later he died there.
Mrs. Curry, suspectiDg he might be he I
husband sent Tor a description OF him
and was Informed he was five feet eleven
inches tall, thin, OF dark complexion and
black hair and Inustache 1t WIS added
that the wild mans clothing was in
tatters
The personal description tailed with that
of her husband, and Mrs. Curry, full of the
gravest fears, took her husbands photo
graph to Elizabeth. She showed IL to Ward
en- Blore OF the Jail there, and to his assist
ant, saying:
Il fear my husband has been made mad
By the heat; that he is the wild man who
was caught here. Does this picture look
like the Wild man.
The living picture of him. said the
iailers.
Mrs. Curry went TO the Morris Plains Asy-
,um and showed tile photograph to the Of
.icials there.
REFUSED INSURA nee MONEY.
THE wild man was your husband" they
said. There can be no doubt about ["
The widow, as she supposed herself to
be, began to weep and begged that the
body OF the wild man be disinterred.
That was done. Tie body was Eot well
preserved. but Mrs. Curry, after Looking at
Il, exclaimed:
1T is my husband
She asked leave to take tile body to New
ark for burial. The weather was fright
fully hot, and the authorities denied per-
mission. She went home, nourning. Her
sons. too, mourDed their father as dead.
Curry is, or was, insured in two Insurance
companies. The agent OF one expressed
his willingness to pay the Insurance money.
But that very day Mrs. Curry received
a postal card from her husbands brother,
who lives near Pittsburg, Pa. The brother
said he had seen Curry near Pittsburg.
Mrs. Curry was overjoyed- She refused to
take the insrance money. With one of
her sons She set out for Pittsburg yester-
day.
Said another son yesterday:
Mother saw the body at Morris Plains
and said thatit was fathers. She wanted
to bring 1t home for burial, but on account
OF the weather they wouldn't let her
Yes. l guess she's glad now she didn't,
because we believe father Is alive. 1
don't know exactly what was ON the postal
card mother received, but 1t was from a
brother of my father in Pennsylvania
around Pittsburg or Allegheny City
81 think it stated that he had seen a
man lie thought was father No, / don't
think he could make a mistake No, /
don't know whether father is with his
brother now. l dom kno " anything more
about it. One of the insurance companies,
the Metropolitan, was about ready to pa y
the claim, but don't know whether they
had Offered the check to mother or not
When we heard of the news we had
everything stopped. We expect to hear
from Pennsylvania soon, and didn't care
to have any publicity this time about the
matter, until we were sure that father
is dead or alive"