New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-05
M0URNED, Bot NOT DEAD.
Wife Thought Dro50ned Nan Her
HuSband-He Writes Letters.

A tombstone in the Lutheran Cemetery, IN the
Eewtown district bears the name OF Frank j.
Nuett who lived at No As Bleecker-st. Brooklyn.
A body was found on June I'm the XIII Won kuil.
at w-Brsghton. Staten Island, which was idenu-
fed By Mrs. Frank J. Nullett as that OF her nus
band. and the Richmond coToner's otlce contains
p record Of an inquest saying that the BODY was
that OF Nullett. Recently, however. letters have
been received E Brooklyn apparently in the hana-
writing OF Nuliett. which give the impression that
he is much alive. instead Of being crowned ana
buried.
NuIlett for twenty years employe OF the
National Biscuit Company and its predecessors and
about year ago moved from Brooklyn to Troy
X Y. 10 take charge of a store there for . B.
Clark & Co. bakers. Of Grand-st, Manhattan
JIe babe his wife his twe!veyear-old son, Leo
eood-by at the pier in Troy on October 19 last. and
came New-York 10 see his employers promising
10 return In few days. On the following day ne
wrote a postal to his wife and son. and that was
the last heard of him.
In a few months Mrs. Nullett came TO New-fork
20 search for her husband. She obtained employ
rnent as a demonstration for a pure food concern
ard then as a clerk in q laundry on the East Slde'
She lived IN a fat at No. So Dowaing-st-. with
her SON
On June the body found in the XIII Won
KuII A paragraph 10 that effect was published In
the newspapers. Mrs Nullett said that VISION
appeared her and told her the oody was her
husbands. She at once put on mourning anu
going 10 Staten Island identified the body as mat
az her husband Before seeing the body she told
the Richmond coroner that her husbaho hao
broken leg below the knee. an abscess on the leg
and a mark the body made by d rope. Inc
body was found TO contain these marks OF identi-
ficatiou according to the coroner Mrs. NuIelt
also identified tbs body by the teeth ana general
features which were not entirely destroyed An
insurance company was satisfied with hef loeicn-
cation and paid her $3.50 insurance hair OF winch
she spent in burying the body.
On July "A. Samuel Fetman' n painter OF NO. ~
West Fourth-st Coney Island friend OF the
oSuIetts received letter addressed to Mrs NuileIt
IL his care postmarked Fall River Mass he car
RED II over to No. So Downing-st' where Nrs'
%lIett had been living. and was told she was IN
Tro, TIC left the letter TO be delivered to her on
her return 4 week later he received a letter In
the same handwriting. addressed TO himself ana
,ostunarl.ed Newport r. !. 1t purported to be
from Nulett, who asked If he had dehverea the
letter 10 Mrs Nullett and promised TO pay Feltman
8 bin s45, which had been on his pookS TOT over
feitman sent FOR Mrs. Nunett and showed her the
letter. She stood for moment peNllqeTed REQ ,r;ea
husband IS dead" she said. i nave Durieu
him nearly two months ago in Lutheran Cemetery,
that he NAV 60 there if he wishes and read his own
tombstone. ! DO not believe he is awe put II ms
Is Sim tnat is writing 1 do not want to see him
again. ] win never have anything further 70 90
with man who could treat we IN taS iaslio he
letter Feltman had left for her at the Downing
house. She admitted that the letter Feltman had
received was in handwriting similar TO that or
FeItman said yesterday that Mrs Nullett did not
want read the letter sent TO her, but said she
would steam i 5 open e gnG man SO 'na' "ouu
This letter was in Feltmans possession yester-
Bristol House, No. 81 North Main-st.. Fall River.
Mass. The writer said ne would now be born
again. and referred TO quarrel lac had had with
bis wife. which ne said was the cause OF ms Gis
hand, and although there might not be any love
between them, there could be respect He SAID
10 Bar Har6or and thence 10 San Francisco, TO the
Soldiers EneampmeRL on august ~ and wouio oe
of rambling nature.