Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-08-28

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land" Mr.. Coleman says, "Mr. An
drews was standing on the platform.
| saw him from the car window and
went out on the platform to talk with
him Mr. Andrews askel me what
1895 he won the cup with the defender.
the supreme court was doing, and
then followed few commonplaces in
regar1 to the weather and trivial
things. l left Mr.. Andrews still stand
| ing on the platform when | climbed
back on to the train"
| Professor Beatty of the Cotner
university, at Lincoln, also spoke WIN
Mr.. Andrews while the train was wait
ing at Ashland, and f. H. Stevens, a
Lincoln contractor, who hail met Mr..
Andrews few days before and nego-
tiated with him for the purchase Of
some Of the gravel from his pit for
use on a building which Mr.. Stevens
was erecting at Ashland, also saw
him on the station platform talking
with Mr.. Coleman.
Was Seen in Omaha.
Early the following morning, Sun
lay, three Omaha men declare posi-
lively they saw the missing man in
Omaha. One of these is F. w. Fitch,
deputy county attorney, whose office
in the New York Life building is next
door to the suite occupied by Mr..
Andrews. Mr.. Fitch, who naturally
knew him intimately, affirms that ne
saw Mr.. Andrews On the rear platform
of street-car going uptown from
the depot about Z o'clock on Sunday
morning. Mr.. Fitch saluted, ana
Mr.. Andrews in response. waved his
hand and his cane as the car passed.
| by. Theodore H. Johnson, manager
Of Photographic supply house, also
AYERS that he saw Andrews on Sun
day morning on Sixteenth street short
ly after o'clock, which is in entire ac-
cord with Mr. Fitch's statement, be-
cause the car on which Mr.. Fitch saw
him was healed in the direction of
Sixteenth street. John S. Dirgman,
an ex-constable, also testifies that he
walked north on Sixteenth street with
Mr. Andrews for several blocks about
the same hour.
To all of these witnesses Mr.. An
drews appeared to be his usual self In
the matter of identification it is we'll
nigh impossible for any of them to
have been mistaken, because Mr.. An
lrews was man of striking person
ality. On account of a slight lame.
ness in his left ankle he alv avs car
ried a cane, on which he placed con-
siderable reliance when ne walked.
profusion Of hair of reddish color, and
wore a mustache, which was streaked
with gray.
Andrews was the owner Of beauti-
full home, built about two years ago,
and me was devoted to his wife and
uate1 from the Omaha high school,
and it is considered passing strange
that if he came to Omaha on the Sun
day morning that he did not go direct
| ly home. The theory has been adj
vanced that he might have been af
fecte1 by the heat, and although ap-
pearing perfectly rational he may have
been unconscious of his movements.
This would explain why he did not go
home and why his intimate friends did
not know HE was in town. 1t is sup
pose that he left Omaha Sunday morn
ing and returned To- Cedar Creek.
Mrs. Andrews Strange Dream.
Mrs. Mary Girard Andrews, wife of
the unfortunate man, is president of
| the Omaha women's club and a leader
in sociological and philanthropic
work in the city Their home life had
always been the happiest. Mrs.
Andrews declared from the outset that
the theory of suicide was absurd, as
her husband had absolutely no reason
to be respondent. She also secuted
the idea that ne mad met with an acct
dent. Her statement made after the
finding Of the body is as follows:
zone sometimes has those subtle
inti1nations which defy analysis and
cannot be submitted to the scrutiny OF
reason. 1t was such an intimatiOn
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Friday evening. I seemed to see my
husband followed by the dark figure or
man. I was deeply alarmed, and
when l awoke l was trembling. And
yet at the time I had no knowledge
that anything was wrong. The next
morning I received word that he had
disappeared.
From the first suspected that he
had met with foul play. still believe
so. The strange thing is that in my
dream | saw him going toward the
river, followed along the railroad track
by a man. This notion is contrary
to what we were told at the cabin
near Cedar Creek. We were told that
he started off with mis- gun in the op.
pcslte direction, whereas the body was
found at spot in the direction in
which / had dreamed he was headed.
81 refuse TO believe that the dream