Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-09-20
SON BELIEVED
DEAO RETURNS
But Mother Who had Col.
lected Insurance Refuses
to Own Him
he HAD SERVED IN Pen.
Declares He Had Been Hit Over
Head and Then Railroaded
Into Prison.

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Thy Special Leased Wire to New Mexicanl
Niles, Mich, Sept. 2O.-Stin claim
ing to be the son of Mrs. Estella
Kimmel, but denounced by her as an
impersonator of her son for whose
death she received insurance money,
the man who came from the Auburn,
N. Y, penitentiary and was identified
by scores of people as George Alfred
Kimbel, was uncertain whether he
would attempt to see his Mother"
"Kimmel" who says he disappeared
thirteen years ago, and now returns
after $1,000 life insurance had been
paid Mrs. Kimmel for his death,
said he had no motive in returning
other than love for his mother.
II do not want to cheat anyone out
OF the $4,000 additional life insurance
which my relatives would receive if
they could prove Tam Dead" said
Kimmel.
"But I am not dead. After being
knocked on the head in what appear.
ed to be an attempt to put me out
of business, after being sent to the
Auburn penitentiary for five years
or. charge of stealing 25 cents and
after otherwise being so badly treat
ed that my mind is almost gone,
desired to come home. 1t was impos
sible for me to pretend for the rest
of my life that was dead just SC
that somebody could enjoy $25,0O0.
If my mother will not recognize
me, will not force her to. All my
friends here know Fam the real
George Kimmel. So does my mother
know Fam not an imposter.
when I disappeared from home
thirteen years ago, undoubtedly my
family did think was dead. Seven
years later my brother proved in
court that there was evidence to show
was dead. One insurance company
promptly paid her $4,000 but another
company holding a $4,000 policy ap
pealed and said they would locate
me.
They did find me in Jail. Then my
mother heard of 1t but she refused tc
change her position. Four years age
they brought us face to face in Au
burn 2enitentiary- MY mother ap
peared not to recognize me. While
we were talking the guards stepped
aside and I whispered in my mothers
ear: what am I to call you If moi
mother" She looked at me in silence
and then whispered, when we ant
alone, call me mother"
"That was an outburst of mother
love which she could not suppress
Afterwards she appeared to regret 1t
I wonder whether that impulse will
reassert itself of whether, while &C
nowledged by my friends, I am for
ever to be disowned by my mother.
"Kimmel" today was still at thu
home of Mrs. Harry T. Fox who re
cognized him as a cousin. He said hi!
mother would have to call on him i
she wanted to see him.
A Dramatic Meeting.
Niles, Mich, Sept. 20.-Steppfn,
back from the preferred embrace o
the man who claims to be her son
Mrs. Estella Kimmel today faced hin
for the first time since their dramati
meeting in the prison at Auburn. n
T., four years ago.
"Why mother. Don't you know
me? the man who claims to be Georg
Alfred Kimmel exclaimed as the won
an entered the home of a cousil
where the man Of mystery has, bee
| acknowledged as a relative. AS b
spoke, he stepped forward with arm
extended but the woman recoiled an
Responded sharply:
| II am not SO sure about that"
Cross Examination.
Then she subjected "Kimmel" t
a cfoss examination that went int
details Of her sons early life an
school days in Niles. She asked hir
also, why, If he was her son. he ha
not written to her during the man
years he was away from his brit
place.
The interview was, II anything
more dramatic than the former NEE
ing between the two. Earlier in tn
day, the man had reiterated hi
claims to identify as Kimmel an
had declared that If his mother wisl
ed to see him she would have to ca
on him.
| When they came face to face, b
made the first advances and after he
Irebuff, exclaimed: "How can you sa
lany such thing, mother?" Then the
sat down facing each other, and th
! fire Of questions began behind close
doors. He was asked his age, Dirt
1 place, several questions about hi
father, where he went to school, an
| why and when he left Niles and whit
circumstances had prevented hi
from Informing those. at home Of b
whereabouts and actions.
Mrs. Kimmel IN Doubt.
Mrs. Kimmel is not ready to der
flatly that the man Is her son, neiths
will she admit that HIS claims al
Just. When she saw him In Aubul
she was emphatic In her dsnunciatic
Iof his claims.
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Former acQuaintances Of the wor
ans sonsare divided as to the identit
lot the msA. Some asserted that l
has readily recalled happenings
boyhood but others declared toda
that he Was an impostor.