Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-01-13
PINE BLUFF!AN
 IS 1 LIVE ONE >Gbenezer F. Williams Not Dead3 b0t He Read His
 Own Obituary.
THE MYSTERY SOLVED
II Was iolln Wilson. Who Died q Fort smith Under Mysterious
 circumstances.

thought in Fort Smith for some days. Following the death of a man known as John Wilson, but who ill reality was recorded on the death certificate as EbeneZer E. Williams : Little was known of Williams at Ft Smith and Pine Bluffians were com municated with by the undertaken there who was desrous of learning something of Williams relatives, if ho had any here.
 The Fort Smith Southwest Amer ican solves the mystery, however with the following story:
 Ebenezer E, Williams, the man of mystery, died, was buried and bore deep, dark damnable secrets to his srave-on paper; but Ebenezer F. Williams is about the liveliest corpse ever seen.
 Ebenezer is one of those few fel lows who has an opportunity to read his own obituary, and the aforesaid Ebenezer is still snorting. all of which proves conclusively that E,ben- czer still has his feet out of the grave.
 Williams and John Wilson, the lat ter an emEloye of the Burk Brick Company,s plant, occupied one ward in the county hospital. Williams was | suffering from paralysis, while Wilson was afflicted with tuberculosis. Will son bore traces of having been in bet ter circumstances in days gone by and his disposition at the brick plant caused the employees at that place to become suspicious that Wilson had a history
 They felt sorry for him and looked upon Wilson as "n object of pity On several occasions Wilson, when suf fering from apparent melancholy, de- clared Wilson was an assumed name and that his proper name was Will Hams, but he never made known his real given name.
 Wilson died in the hospital Thurs day and when his body was removed to the morgue lot of correspondence and patent papers on a machine to set up barrels was found in his grip that was turned over to the Fort Snit.i Undertaking Company by the hospital authorities. The correspondence and papers bore the name of EbeneZer Williams. lnasmuch as Wilson had told his fellow employees that Will Hams was his right name the en- ployes felt confident that John Wilson was no other than Ebenezer E. Will Hams.
 The papers were of such charac- ter that under the circumstances they threw d cloud of mystery on Wilson. They spoke of mining property and real estate which Williams claimed and indicated very much that Will Hams had lost his right to valuable holdings he once owned. An effort was made to get into communication with persons whose names were sign ed to the letters, but all efforts fail ed.
 So on Sunday John Wilson's un- claimed body was quietly inferred Tn Oak cemetery as Ebenezer E. Wt!- Hams, carrying with it secrets that were destined to remain unsolved.
 And ali this time Ebenezer E.. | Williams was lying on his cot in the county hospital. unconscious of the fact that4 he was a corpse and was reposing in. Oak cemetery. Not un- til Williams picked up local paper and saw an account of his death did he realize that if the newspaper was trne Ebenezer was in land hereto fore unheard of Ebenezer rubbed his eyes until they almost collapsed from their sockets, but no, he was certainly reading the account of his death.
 He even read where his unclaimed body was lying on slab in the morgue where the employees of the brick plant had taken up collection to bury him; of how he lived under the assumed name of John Wilson; of his patent papers, and host of oth- CT things that made Ebenezer feel mighty queer.
 He looked about and saw he was lying on cot instead of morgue slab. and finally came to the conclu- sion that he was alive instead or being dead.
 Then Ebenezer summoned Super intendent Davis and an investigation was made It was found that the
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