The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-06-24
THE NEWS PROVIDENCE r.. l.. FRIDAY. JUNE "A 1904
MRS. SMITH
IS S0RELY
PERPLEXED

New York, June A.-Mrs. Henry Smith,
who says she lives at Eleventh avenue
and Fifty-hfth street dined with her
husband on Monday evening for the first
time since she buried him In the Mount
Kisco cemetery year ago. AT least that
was the amazing statement she made yes
terday in the administration department
OF the surrogate's court. She went there
for the purpose OF having the grave
opened and the impester thrown out.
Mrs Smith was IN great state OF ex-
element when she appeared and related
her strange story. To T.. A. Wolf. one OF
the clerks OF the surrogate's court, she
said that her husband was supposed to
have been drowned In Spuyten DnyTi
creek year ago He had been missing
for several days and when the body or a
drowned man was taken out OF the creek
she hurried To the scene and identifed IL
as that OF her husband.
THE clothing on the body WAS exactly
like that worn by my husband the last
time I saw him" said Mrs. smith; "the
features were the same. spared no
money 10 see that he had a good wake.
and buried him at my expense
SMITH COMES HOME HUNGRY.
| had buried an imposter until last Mon
day evening For a whole year | have
been wearing widows weeds. That even
ing I was just sitting down 10 my lonely
dinner when the door opened and a man
walked in with never knock. lie just
said Hello, Sarahr and sat down at the
table with me. In an instant ! saw that
II was my long buried husband, although
OF course. realized that l had buried
the wrong man.
eff had been a believer in ghosts I
should have been scared out OF my wits
But 7 wasn't I just answered Hello
Henry" and fixed a place at the table for
him.
"All during dinner kept asking him
questions about his strange absence and
II he did not know that had buried him
year ago and been mourning him as
dead But he just looked at me sort Of
funny and kept right on eating corned
beef and cabbage and potatoes. After
he had eaten all he wanted he told me
that If ! had buried him. some one had
imposed on me- or else ! had taken a
mean advantage OF him while he was
asleep. At that he laughed and seemed
to think he had cracked a great Joke.
HE GOES AWAY SATISFIED.
"A few minutes after dinner my hus-
band said he was going out for a few
minutes to see some Of his old friends
fa would be back later, He went cut
into the street and that was the last I
saw of him.
Now what I want Is for the courts
or the police or some one 20 find my hus-
/ band And another thing. | don't want
/ that bogus corpse that / buried TO lie in
/ a grave that properly belongs to my hus-
| band. I want the grave opened and that
I body buried some place else.
Il paid an undertaken se5. If he will
return that money ! will consent TO lei
1 the imposter stay in the grave, but II
the cash is not forthcoming, then he must
l get out OF II"
Mr.. Wolf directed Mrs. Smith to the
/ West Side police court. Magistrate Mayo
who was sitting there yesterday. said
| that Mrs Smith had not been there with
\ her ghost" story and that IL she did
/ come to him he would hardly know how
to 60 about the eviction OF a body from
grave 1t had occupied for year or