The age-herald., 1900-10-09

THE LIVING.
 --------------~-----~-~-- fled it as Jim Wilburn, young man whose people live at Bankston Ala Others who saw the body said it was young operator named Welburn, who works at the Western Union Telegraph office in this city Vel burn, however, reported for duty yester- day morning, but the resemblance between him and the dead man was so great that one might easily be taken for the other. As the accompanying cuts show, it would be hard matter to tell them apart if the two had been seen together in life. There were great many inquiries at the Western Union office for Welburn yesterday by friends who had read the article in The Age-Herald and by some who had also seen the body at the undertakers They were much relieved when informed that he was not only alive, but was then at work in the office.
 Deaths Mystery
 The mystery surrounding Barbour's death ties are that it never will be- He was found in Avondale park Saturday afternoon in a stupor from which he never recovered. All OpldtS HdQ DeSu duIllHlSl6Ecu lO HHuI about that there was no question, but whether by his own hands or by the hands Of some one else is unknown. There are evidences that he was not alone, and one person stated to J. B. Marshall, detective, yesterday that he saw man and a woman near the top of the hill in Avondale park Saturday about noon. They were at that time sitting on a log, the man resting -..s head in the womans lap. The man who saw them-Mr. Marshall did not ascertain his name-says he watched them for sev- eral minutes, thinking that he knew the man, but on finding that he did not, went away.
 Barbour was seen alone in Spring street, Avondale, about noon Saturday-probably a few minutes before 12 o'clock or probably few minutes after that hour He was not seen, so far as known, with any one else Saturday, unless he was the man with the woman in the park
 Opinion is divided between the murder theory and the suicide theory Coroner Paris says he Is confident that it was mur- der, while there are others who believe it was suicide. So far no clew has been dis covered upon which to work out the the ory of murder.
 A cleared space of ground several feet in diameter thirty or forty feet up the hillside from where the body was found bore evidence of number of persons hay ing been seated there, and the presence of a number of tracks also leads to the be- lief that Barbour was not alone and that his death was not the result of a self-ad- ministered opiate
 MT. Weiburn and His Other Self J. A. Wellburn, the well-known operator in the Western Union Telegraph office, re- sides at 416 Twenty-first street, and is mar ried. He was born at Bankston, Fayetta County, Alabama, where his father and mother, MT. and Mrs. W. H. Wellburn, still reside His mother being in feeble health, he was alarmed lest she would hear that the dead man was her son. He was a telegraph operator in Savannah and in Ma con, Ga, but has spent most of his life in Birmingham, where his excellent character and genuine worthiness have won him a great many friends.
 'I called with a friend to see the dead body at the Warner-Smiley place. and as we looked at the face my friend said at once:
 'Wellburn, he is remarkably like you'
 'Yes, l said there is no doubt about that
 ''The only really noticeable difference be- tween the dead man and myself is that the front line of his hair is higher up than the line of my hair. Singularly enough, he Is also remarkably like another operator in town-Mr. Hewlett of the Postal Telegraph office.'
 Didn't you feel queer when you heard you were dead?"
 Well, it did sound rather startling I didn't know the dead man-never saw him alive that I am aware of"