The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-21
Wife True to His Memory
Transfxed When Husband =
Appeared Before Her
mistaken IDENTITY OF BoDY =
:, RESPONSIBLE FOR C0ND.1,Oh
After Fourteen Years of Absence, Sun.
posed Dead Man Finds His Memory
Preserved by Splendid Monument
Over His Grave.
!,

Larinlore, N. D.. July 21-Mourned
as dead for fourteen years, Glen r.
Kimball who disappeared in Septem-
Der. 1885 from Deadwood. S. D.. where
he was engaged in the bank business.
returned to his wife and daughter on
their farm near Larimore, this coun-
'ty, Monday afternoon. The story Of
kimball's disappearance. the finding
of a body suppose dto be his and the
burial OF that body by the missing
mans wife, the collection of insurance,
the chase for the murderer Of the man
supposed to be dead and his return
after fourteen long years of separa-
ton, reads like a passage from
thrilling novel.
! Monday afternoon while engaged
about her house duties on her farm
about five miles from Larimore. Mrs.
kinlba.l received a telephone call. In
response to her query as to who was
I at the other end of the line, the man
told her that he would come out and
see her. Immediately he set off from
| Larimore on foot and upon his arrival
at the farm was met by Mrs. KIM
! Jtlls mother who Instantly recog.
nized him as the long lost husband OF
/ lltt utluSlllCl. MI IAAllA1ai1 c1A6O
recognized her husband, the shock of
his sudden return as though from the
grave being so severe that she stood
as though transformed to stone and
even yesterday when interviewed by
a Times representative, she seemed
| to be unable to realize the great
change that had come into her life.
Kimhall's whereabouts during the
! he haan yr,iccinp
is Il mystery. He refuses TO talk of
himself, but hints vaguely at being
confined i'll an insane asylum. That
he has been held in confinement some
where Is admitted by both Ktmball
and his wife, but what manner of I'M
prisonment they will not divulge.
His Disappearance
! In September. 1895. Chen kimball
and his wife resided in Deadwood, S.
d. They had been married number
OF years and their union had been
/ blessed with the arrival of a girl baby.
Bessie. who was then 3 years of age.
Mr.. kimbalI's position in a banking
/ institution OF Deadwood made It neces-
sary for him to make a trip Of several
days duration for the purpose of max
in gcollections and when, In Septem-
ber, he started out to make his trip
lit was expected that he would be gone
only three days.
F.! At the end OF the three days, when
kilnball failed to return. his wife be-
came worried lest something had BE-
fallen him. She made no report o1
her anxiety as to the safety Of her
husband for several days afterwards,
but finally reported his disappearance
to the police authorities and to the
bank officials. An Investigation into
his accounts with the bank showed
everything to be in perfect condition
so that it was clearly not a case Of
elnbezzlement from the institution in
which he was employed.
For several Weeks the search was
maintained until. about six weeks, att
OF his disappearance. railroad en-
ployes engaged in setting up snow
fences along the line. came upon the
dead body Of a man hidden under
a pile of fences, The body was horri-
bly, mutilated, the face having been cut
and mashed beyond all hope of recog-
milton. Over the other portions of
the body there We're also many marks
/ of violence, showing that it was
clearly a case of murder.
| Inc uassippeaIance ol tne pauh OH.
cial just short time before lead the
officials to believe that they had found
the missing man and shortly after
wards the identification of the mur-
dered man as Kimhall was establish
ed. Mrs. kimball identified the body
because of certain marks on the leg
while plaster paris cast of his teeth
was identified as tlat of Kimhall by
the Deadwood dentist who had done
some work for him. With this almost
(; positive proof of Identification, the
body was buried and the insurance,
amounting to $4,000, was collected by
Mrs. Kimball:
! Then followed relentless search
for the murderer. The man found was
seen short time before with a short,
heavy set, dark complicated man and
the search for that man was taken up.
Mrs. kimball employed detectives, had