Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-09-20
REAL MRS. KLIMOVICZ
FOUND IN R0ADHOUSE
DOUBLE OF MISS TiLLiE TOLAN
is DISCOVERED IN RESORT
NEAR ELGIN.
MARITAL. MYSTERY
is SOLVED AT LAST
Women Are Exact Rcplcas of Each
Other Piuue Because Double
Said She Had Big Feet Causes
Wife to Reveal Identity.

Chicago, Sept. 10. - Mrs. Annie
Klimovicz, the real Mrs. Klimovicz,"
as she herself admits, has been found
working in roadhouse three and one
half miles east of Elgin. H. Her dis
covery sets at rest all question OF
the identity of Miss Tillie Tolan, the
West side girl, who was claimed by
John Klimovicz as his wife and identi- !.
fled by Mrs. Mary Zemaitis Of Grand
Rapids, as her daughter.
Women Remarkably Alike.
Mrs. Klimovicz offered 10 furnish
proof of her identity, but her resem-
blance to her published pictures and
her remarkable likeness to Tillie Tol-
an were conclusive to the few persons
to whom she discovered herself with
out the aid of documentary evidence
which she was able to present. The
likeness between the two women,
which was 80 great that two mothers
appeared in Municipal Judge Cleland's
court last week and each identified the
Tolan girl as her own daughter, is
more marked in the women than in
their pictures.
During the time that the case OF
mistaken identity has been discussed
in the newspapers Mrs. Klimovicz has
been living at Snow farm, a roadhouse
owned by w. S. Snow, three and one
half miles east of ElgIr, on the Chi.
cago road. She ha lDeen working
there under the name of May Reaves.
Piqued at Miss ToIan.
The discovery of her identity was
due primarily to pique over a slight
ing remark made in the court room by
Miss Tillie Tolan.
Il wish they'd just find me one Of
her old shoes to .ry on" the girl who
was mistaken for Mrs. Klimovicz said,
that would settle my identity. l
could put both of my feet in one Of
her shoes"
Il would like to see her" Mrs
KlimovtcZ said at the Snow farm as
she extended from uuder her skirt a
small foot clad in No. shoe. ''If
she can put both of her feet int one
of my shoes she must be a Chinese
woman, or cripple"
decided to End TangIe.
Mrs. Klimovicz determined to put
an end to the queer tangle of identi-
ties which had puzzled SO many and
came to Chicago Monday evening, in
tending to go to Judge Cleland's court
Tuesday morning and prove her iden-
tity. She called up the Maxwell street
police station by telephone Monday
night and was informed that the case
of John Klimovicz had been settled
finally, and that no further proceed
ings would be held. She was also
told that Judge Cleland would not sit
on Tuesday because of election. Dis
appointed at this information, Mrs.
Klimovicz returned to Elgin without
making herself known.
She said later that she was afraid
to make herself known to her husband
because of personal violence. She ex-
pressed her intention of forcing him
to get a divorce and free her "If
he doesn't" she said, II will apply
for a decree myself on the grounds
of cruelty"
ptfuI Letter from Father.
At the same time that Mrs. Klimo-
vicz was planning to reveal her iden-
tity Vincent G. Ponic, John Klimo-
vicz' lawyer throughout his trouble
caused by his annoyance of the Tolan
girl, was in receipt of letter from
the heart-broken father, who was un-
able to leave Grand Rapids to appear
in court, in which Zemaitis told of his
sorrow at the girls denial of her par
ents and denounced the persons who
he supposed had enticed his daughter
from him
On the other hand Mrs. Klmovicz
grief that her mother could
so far forget her own daughter that
she could claim another girl.
Feels Hurt by Mistake.
Think of it," she said, Il have not
been away from home much more,
than year, and | returned for
short visit last January. Yet my own
mother and my favorite sister can so
far forget me that they identified in
court this other girl