The sun., 1903-08-05
SUPPOSED DEAD MAN ALIVE.
wRS NTLLETT THOUGHT SHE
nan TRIED HER HUSBAND.
Identified Rody OF n Drowned Man as His
and spent Insurance Money for Burial
Now lie Writes That He Is Alive and
wei, and on Ills Way to San Francisco.

wei, and on Ills Way to San Francisco.
r,o,l ! Nullett, who used to have charge
= .,oro in Troy, n. Y, for s. b. Clarke
IN bakers, of Manhattan is still sup
rosed TO be living, although the body OF
= drowned man was identified as Nullett's
,,d hpried in Lutheran Cemetery about
,vo months ago. Letters, which il is
soid Nuotr alone could have written, have
boo, received since the time Of his suppc sed
,rrioI There seems TO he no question
,bo, those letters are in his handwriting.
Furthermore, they contain reference to
so,no matters knowledge of which he alone
coud possess
Nulrtt. who if alive is in his fifty-eighth
roar. Was employed for nearly twenty
,sors bv the National Biscuit Company
md formerly lived at As BleeclSer street, T.,
BrookIvn About n year ago he moved
IN Trov to superintend the store which
the Clarke company opened there, taking
bis wif. and their l2-ycar-old son, Leo,
aIong. On the morning Of Oct. 10 he left
Troy 10 come to New York on n business
trip, telling his wife that he would return
in couple Of days.
He was in New York on the afternoon OF
tia, date. and after visiting the office of
the Clark firm, in Grand street, started for
the Hatfield House. in Grand near Ridge
street, where. as he explained, he was to put
up for the night. He never, so far as can
be learned, reached the Hatfield House,
having dropped completely out of sight after
he left the Office of his employers
few weeks after her husbands disap-
pearance, Mrs. Nulett came to New York
with her son and. failing, even with the aid
of the police. To get any tidings of her miss
ing husband, went to live at SIS Downing
street, Brooklyn, and supported herself
bv working in laundry. On June she saw
a notice in a newspaper that the body OF
drowned man had been found off Staten
Island She identified it as the body of her
husband The insurance company with
which Mr. Nuett had burial policy for
$3.50 was satisfied with the Identification
and paid the widow the money, half of
which she spent on the interment and the
other half in placing modest little monu-
ment over the grave.
In describing the Identification of the
drowned man by Mrs. Nulett, Coroner
Schaefer of Staten Island said: THE
Identification was perfectly satisfactory.
Before seeing the body she said her hus-
band had a broken leg below the knee, an
ahscess on the leg and mark on the body
made by rope. The body was found
t. bear all these marks, and besides, Mrs
Nullett identified the man as her husband
hv his teeth and general features, which
were not entirely destroyed.
Not until July "a did any doubt arise
on the question of Mrs. Nullett's identi-
fcaton On that day Samuel Feltman,
a painter and decorator in Brooklyn, who
nd lpp1 hanp npnnaiT1nl with Mr. Nnllptt
received n bulky letter postmarked Fall
River, Mass" addressed to Mrs. Frank j.
Nullett in his care. Mr.. Feltman recog
nized the address on the enevelope as In
the handwriting of Nullett and fastened
to deliver it to Mrs. Nulett. Finding
that she had gone on visit to Troy. he left
it to he delivered to her on her return.
On July 81, just a week later, MIR, Feltman
received letter addressed to himself and
in the same handwriting as that he had
received for Mrs. Nulett, This one bore
the postmark Newport, X. |. MIR. Feltman
with a slight nervous tremor, opened the
letter from his supposed dead friend. 1t
was from Nullett, who inquired if MIR. Felt
man had delivered the previous letter.
Mrs. Nullett. Mrs. Nullett had not re-
oeived the letter addressed to her, it havin &
been sent after her to Troy.
On arriving at Mr.. Feltman's house and
being shown the Newport letter, Mrs
Nullett handed ii back TO Mr. Feltman
and declared that she still believed her
husband was dead and buried, but that
even were he alive she did not want to see
him again.
II will never" she said, shave anything
to do with man who could treat wife ir
this fashion"
She admitted that the letter seemed to
be in the handwriting Of her husband In
the letter to Mrs. Nullett her husband ex-
planned that he had gone away on account
of the disa agreements between them, but
that on account Of their boy there should be
respect bet ween them. if it were not possible
for mutual love to exist any longer. he
wrote:
You may think that am trying to come
back but am not. for am going from here
10 Bar Harbor and from there I am going
TO Frisco, to the soldiers ercampment, or
Aug 10. will be back in New York about
Oct /
Much of the letter was taken up with
explanations about Nullett's affairs and in
nuires about his friends. Mr.. Feltmar
has sent letters to Nullett according TO the
Instructions in his letter, but so far has re-
ceived no response. He has not the least
doubt that Nullett is alive and on his way
by easy stages across the continent
1t was said yesterday at the office of the
Clark firm, by which Nullett had been EN-
poyed. that he was a superior salesman
end was making $50 week at the time Of hif