Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
Dubuque Woman Discovers Rel
alive Thru Peculiar Chain
Of Circumstances
HERMlT,s DEATH is CAUSE
Similarity Of Name Starts Runner and
Uncovers Interesting Story - Later
II Was Found Dead Hermit Was
Not Her Brother, but Real Relative
Is Located.
Special to rimes-Republican


Dubuque, May AT last, after
much anxiety and the longing of years
Miss Mary Carlos, the aged inmate of
the Home for the Aged, in Dubuque.
has located her brother almost beyond
a doubt, as the Michael Carlos of OF
tumwa, the long silent and thought to
be dead man. The tangled story has
been slow to unravel and it has taken
months of patient waiting and hoping
for the authorities in legal lore to con-
vince the aged woman that the living
man is her brother and not the one
who was found dead at Dallas Center
some time ago. 1t is not proved abb
solutely as yet, but there is little doubt
but that the man residing at Ottum-
wa is her brother for he has been able
to give proof we'll nigh sufficient to
convince the most unbelieving.
The story is remembered, having ap-
peared in these columns sometime ago,
Mary Carlos. residing at the Home for
the Aged, was notified Of the death OF
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fortunate hermit having been found
dead in his lodging one morning by
neighbors passing his lonely hut. When
the cottage was opened 1t was found
the faithful dog of the old man had
gone half mad with hunger, having
been imprisoned for several days with
his dead master and that he had eaten
part of the fact and hands from the
dead body. The name of the man was
given as Michael Carlos. and he was
stated to have left fortune. 1t was
further stated by the neighbors that
he had been disflgured in life, half
the jaw and one eye being gone, that
he had lived a hernit's life for years
and was little known to the neighbors.
1t was claimed he was a brother to
Mary Carlos, an inmate. of the Old
Home in Dubuque. The aged woman
believed it herself. Her brother,
Michael, had gone away from home
after the civil war. having been dis
figured during the struggle by a bullet
which removed a portion of the jaw
and deprived him of the sight of one
eye He had never been heard of by
members of his family and it was stat
ed disappointment in love had caused
him to give up his hope Of career
in the legal profession and return to
the lonely life Of a hermit. Steps were
at once taken to secure for Miss
Carlos the fortune left by her brother.
But close following one story came
a letter from Ottumwa, from another
Michael Carlos, claiming to be the
brother of Miss Carlos, and inclosing
of the different members
of the Carlos family taken after the
war. Letter followed letter and the
man from Ottumwa answered perfect
ly to the description of the Michael
Carlos who had wandered away from
home after the civil war. Strangely
enough he answered perfectly to the
description Of the wounded Carlos who
had given portion of his face and one
eve to his country And Miss Carlos
was bewildered But slowly the tam
gle has been unraveled and Miss Car
los will claim her brother living, 1t is
believed, instead of claiming the es-
late left by the wealthy hermit at Dali
las Center "a man strangely enough
perfectly to the description
81 the Michael Carlos OF Ottumwa