The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-10-24
HARRY SNvIGER, DEAD,
COMES BACK TO life
Thought to Have Been Buried In
Cemetery Here. Young
Soldiers Alive.
is IN THE ARMx IN cuBA
And Ven OF Mystery Enshrouds
BODY Wrapped I'm Robes

Is among the living. but not the
resurrected. though tt seems like d
vision to hear of his being alive.
All that was mortal OF Harry
Swiger was supposed to have been
laid to rest in the Masonic cemetery
here. where the sod has grown over
the grave since the last rites, hut
wondraas, are the ways of God aud
imam. and. now comes the message
THAT he has not been dead at ali,
though earth to earth, dust to dust
and ashes to ashes ne was presum-
lably consigned. and not until the
Great Day, when the grave gives up
Its dead. may It be known whose
mortal clay was placed in that sepul-
lchre. but assuredly not that OF Harry
Swiger, unless his ghost has wrap
lped the shroud around the inanimate
form and walked forth to do battle
tagain for the country as Harry did
before body Identified at that of
Howard s. Smith by relative was
Isent here from the Rockies, and
Ethen discovered not TO be his. hut
Ifiranly believed by young. swiger's
relatiyes to be his own and SO ideu-
titled by his sister and several Will
sonburg residents who knew him
there number Of years before he
lerlisted In the army, and. the identi-
fication was thought to be complete,
because It WAS done by persons who
saw him grow up from boyhood in
to manhood. The body had all his
features. birth and other marks. and
was tattooed as Harry's was known
to be. And the body was buried as
that of Harry swiger, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the army officers
here maintained that II could not
be his as they had no notice of his
deserving from the army and because
of that could not reconcile themselves
to the statement that Harry had
wandered the country over TO escape
the army detectives and other offic-
ers and was the one killed at Grand
Junction the first of April last, when
trying TO escape from officers. who
1 wanted the stranger foy theft.
Generally accepted that Harry was
dead and buried, his relatives and
friends made no special effort to 10.
.tcate him. II alive. and Monday night
an Innocent looking little postal
card received by Edward Maxwell, oi
Wilsonburg. startled the denizens oil
that burg as much. perhaps, as II q
real ghost had walked. The post
card was from Harry swiger and IN
HIS own handwriting. There wa.
mo mistake about u.
And 1t brought rejoicing into the
j, swiger household to know that the
one mnurned as dead wak. reall,
tamong the living. The card cor
iyeyad the information that Harr,
fswiger at the time of writing It wal
in the army in Cuba sands he Il
] doubtless there now.
Thespostai bore date Of October /,
and was mailed at Cuhan Barracks
These words were written, In swiger'
handwriting:
| "Hello' Ed, am not dead but still
in the army. Am now soldering ii
\ Cuba. Did you get my picture
Regards to friends and home folks
\ Your friend,
i HARRY swIGER,.
\ So. the dead body was not Hoyar,
Smiths, nor Harry swIger's. ana :.
Identification b ~ - ~
.suge as the body is from th
sight of man. shrouded in tn
robes of the dead. Il is also shrsal
1 al In the Will NJ rnvefarv