The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-21

put managed to get a contract from A Brltish concern to furnish mahogany-a concession from the Brazilian Government naVihg been secured-and l got start in that way. The mahogany had to be cut mostly way up in the Andes, and 1 spent my last dollar getting provisions for my outht. but l made several thousand doi- lars out of the deal
 After that made money right along ana before stopped I was interested in some gold and copper mines and coffee plantations and was a member of the firm of Goodall. Perkins & Co.,, operating A line of steamers in the coffee and other trades between San Francisco and Bra zll1an ports.
 During my twenty odd years of life in South America I have been a bank Junta' and an officer in the revolutionary army.
 Before leaving the United States I sep arated from my wife. It was my fauit worthless gambler and spendthrift. She married again, and understand she died nfteen years ago.
 When I came back to the United States about two months ago it was hard to find any6ody who knew me- and still harder to get them to believe my story My daughter, Mrs. c. c. Beasley was the only one of my relatives who welcomed me home or in fact had anything to do with me. I am living with her at Ozark, and she and her husband ana ner cnlIdfen VIII get my money when l get in my second coffin.
 My income now is several hundred thousand dollars a year, but did not in- tend to let any of my relatives know that l nad any money until after Christmas, some of them having treated me rather shabbily when l came back as they thought. poor man.
 'I am now an old man, something over to sell out all my interests in Frisco and South America and retire for the few years that I have to live
 am on my way to Mobile where I relatives. Then I will go to Houston, Tex. and then back home to Ozark.
 The following is from Marshall. Tex. paper of a few weeks ago:
 Truth is stranger than fiction and the reporter frequently finds it true. but seldom has IL been this writers privi- iege to handle more convincing case than one recently come to life in Griffin. Ga, where a man who died in Marshall in lS79-his remains shipped to GeoI gia where his grave has been cared for twen- ty-four years, appears on the scenes of his boyhoOd days; is recognized by friends and received by children as the long buried father.
 There are some, however, who do not recognize in this man the one whom he claims to be, and of this number is a sis ter, and 1t is evident from her letters that the matter is a source of no little trouble to her
 It IS a rcHldfkdDly strange case, and as the most important act in the drama occurred in Marshall. and q citizen of Marshall-Dr. John Ii. Pope-is q princi- pal witness. 1t is of more than ordinary interes. to our people.
 'Dr. Pope had been East and when en route home a few weeks ago, decided to ston over in Atlanta. Ga. and spend a few hours with a friend, and sent a tele- gram to that effect
 Soon after Dr. Pope reached the hotel he was approached by reporter for The Atlanta News, and asked if he c1u.d re- member having been called professionally to see a man named Reid at the Capitol Hotel about 1873.
 The following appeared in The Atlanta News that afternHpn
 will be the all important witness in the now celebra ted cGGe of the return of Jack Reid to Griffin after the latter had been believed to be dead more than twenty years was in Atlanta few hours this afternoon. His statement concerning the case is that he treated a man in Marshall known as Reid at the tune Reid was al leged to have been there and that this man under his care died of pneumonia within d few days
 "'Dr. Pope asserts that he superin- tended the arrangements Tor the return of this man to some town In Georgia whether or not it was Griffin he did not remember.
 of inc return of the alleged living Jack Reid and that his memory needed refresh ing in regard 10 his connection with the stranger in Texas years ago. He said that 9 reference to his books at that time would & establish the identity of his pa tient and would he thinks, determine whether or not the alleged Jack Reid is "" 'Tj1p' 'pr' Dope left this afternoon for his home in Marshall Tex, ,na4 and stated ,eCi,t to ,, reporter for The News that he would in- vastigate the matter.
 The Marshall newspaper continues:
 ''IJpon his return home pr: Pope refer, ou found that he treated one J. B. Reid at the Capital Hotel for m pneHmo3is; ,StR 1I9o and and s.Nfr' Rains's records show that on ran,,arv 70 1872 the remains of J. B. Reid were shipped to Griffin, Ca
 "Raod explains his supposed death in .h,s 1Se He says that he and a friend named nan Needham were travelling in, Texas. and were arrested at Marshall and