The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-18
A QUEER CASE.
An Old Man Thinks He Has Found
His Son
Lut the Young Man Says He Never
Saw His Would-Be Father Any
where Before.

where Before.
The New York American says
standing in the store of John Calvin,
young merchant, of No. 5l3 Third
avenue Brooklyn, John Calvin, a
wealthy manufacturer, Of Brattle-
boro. Vt, late Thursday afternoon
pleaded with the former to acknow-
ledge their relationship as father and
son.
Come home with me, John, Moth
er wants you ever so badly, said
the old man.
Il am not your son. lam not John
E. Calvin. ! am just plain John Cal
win. and | have lived here al my
life" was the reply to the entreaty.
a reply the young man had been
compelled to make repeatedly dur
ing the past few days.
Sorrowing and respondent, the old
man departed for his hotel at Fourth
avenue and Forty-second street, not
fully convinced that he had not been
addressing his son.
For a week the Brattleboro manu-
facturer has been haunting the store
owned by Mr., Calvin, insisting upon
their relationship. So confident was
he of the identification he had made
Of Calvin as his boy who ran away
from home ten years ago that he en-
listed the aid of the police, and two
detectives Thursday visited Calvin at
his store and questioned him about
the case.
ttIt was just week ago that Mr..
Calvin came in here" said young
Mr.. Calvin Thursday night. HE told
me he had a son who left home in q
fit Of anger ten years ago. He had
searched everywhere for the young
man without success. Then he sud-
denly put his hand on my shoulder
and said, Your mother wants you
home, John. Every night she walks
out the rear door and through the
lawn to the gate, where she looks ul
the road, waiting and watching.
frequently have to go for her anG
take her indoors; otherwise she Woulc
stay out until midnight.
''Of course was amazed, anc
after I had repeatedly denied being
his son, I asked him what ha6
brought him to Brooklyn and to my
home
He said that Mrs. John Green
age, Of Ninth avenue and Tenth
street, Brooklyn, had spent the Sum
mer in Brattleboro. He had asked
her in his simple way if she ever saw
his son John in New York. She tolc
him she knew a John Calvin, ane
then described me to the father anc
mother. Both were sure l was tht
missing son.
81 remembered then that Mrs
Greenage had come home and tolC
me about a rich manufacturer, O:
Brattleboro, VT, who had inquired
about me as meeting the description
of his missing son.
@At first l was inclined to trea
the old mans search humorously
but the pathos of his story made me
feel like giving him all the aid
could. When he still insisted that
was his son and wanted to take ms
back to his wife, l brought him t
my residence at l48 Prospect avenue
and had all Of my friends tell hin
that | had lived in Brooklyn all of my
life. We made several trips to New
York, New Jersey, Coney Island anc
other places where / thought the ole
man might find his son. He carried
a picture with him that was take1
some years ago, but I do not think
it resembled me, and if it does it i:
merely a coincidence.
THE old man appeared quite
heartbroken Thursday and told me
that he was leaving for his home OF
a midnight train. His last word:
were:
" What will my poor wife say
when come back alone?' ,"