The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
REAfARKARLEa ACCIDENTS
They Reunited People Who Had Been
So. Separated for Years.

Innun1erab1e strange stories Of how
persons long separated were reunited
have been turning up all oyer the
country lately. /, Some of, these tales
have been so fantastic in their details
that If they were worked into fiction or
melodramas the critics probably would
call the police. ~l-r, -. s...--.
I Take for instance, the manner in
which John M. Lomax, of Dover, Ohio,
found his sister after separation of
more than "a years; When this sister,
Anna, was 16 years old her mother died,
and then she became housekeeper land
cook for her father and her brother. &
Her special dish was beef stew with
dumplings, and of this her brother was
very fond.
/ After four years the father married
again and then the children drifted
away and lost sight of one another. AT
different times Lomax tried to find his
sister, but never could get any trace OF
her.
Some time ago he happened to be in
the neighborhood of Louisville buying
UP farm produce While there he met
farmer named Hastings and the lat
ter invited him to dinner. At dinner
beef stew was served and Lonax
thought it tasted something like that
of the good old days when his sister
cooked his meals He asked the farm
er's wife what her maiden name had
been and found that was his sister:
Another odd case Is tibet in which
Frank Schweringen, of Oneida, N. Y,
who was wanted as a witness in an i'm
portant will suit, was found by R. s.
Glenn. a New York attorney
A claimant of an estate needed GER
tain papers which Schweringen had In
his possession. but no traces of Schwer-
ingen could be found. He and the
claimant had roomed together III
Oneida N Y. while both had been en-
ployed in a foundry, but no one knew
where the man had gone. -
Glenn attorney for the claimant, set
out to find the missing Individual He
had nothing to guide him but a f1imsy
description given by his client. but he
went to many foundries and did consid-
cradle correspondence, thinking that he
would find the man still working at his
old trade. Weeks passed, without sue
cess. The time was coming close when
the papers must be produced or the
claimant would lose his case. In a last
desperate effort to land his man Glenn
took a train for Pittsburg.
Early one morning, after sleeping in
Pullman berth all night. Glenn woke
to find that the train was at stand
still. Looking outside he found freight
locomotive putting close to his car. In
the cab was a man and Glenn-he didn't
know why he did -it-suddenly asked
him. rs your name. Schweringen?'
Yes" was the reply, and before
Glenn recovered from the shock the
train began to move onward. He quick
" told Schweringen to rush the papers
to New York, however. and thus his
client won his case,
The story of the separation and re-
union of Walter and Thomas Stafford,
of Willmantic, Conn, reads like a chap
ter out of one of the years biggest
sellers"
About nine years ago both were head
over heels in love with a girl in their
home town. She smiled upon both and
the result was that they became bad
friends. One day they met in a field
and decided to fight 1t out with revol-
vers. AS they shot at one another they
became frightened and ran off. Each
each, believing he bore the mark of
Cain, decided to leave for other parts.
Finally both drifted into New York.
Neither could forget the, fight upon the
field, and as the result of constant