Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-06
ALLEGED IMPOSTOR
 GEO. KIMMELS CASE
 COMES UP THIS WEEK
Michigan Man of Mystery Up- on Whom Certain Life In- SuranCe Companies
 Depend
IN AN IMPENDING SUIT

oI. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 4:-The eel OLrated case oI George A. KImmcl,
 the man Of mystery is to have an airing in the codrts agaIn tnis week. in the federal court here today the su brought by Kimmei heirs and other interested par ties to recover tne amount of a pclicy held by the mis. sing man in the New York Llte ln- sa. auee company was cal ed for trlai. This NiIl be he second trial of the ease. In the first trial the jury dis agreed, being unable to determine to he own satisfaction whether Kim. l-el was dead or alive. Since the first ~iIaI there have been some new and Interesting developments and it is -eiio ed that the present trial may soive the mystery that has puzzled nsar.y fifteen years.
 The kimmel case Is among the most singular in the country, invoIv-
 ti.e luenty of man supposed 10 -e dead. George A. Klmmel was born .h NIles, Mich, in 1867. After re- OeiVing his education in the pubic s~hOols he entered the emplo- Cf his -uole, Charles A. Johnson as a bank clerK. Later he became engaged in isal estate and investments m Omaha, nd st n aJer became the cashier of .he Farmers State bank at Al kansas ~ity, Kas. He was president of var .ous corporations winch owed mon- sy to his uncles bank and other bank -ng tgstuions
 In July, 1898. while cashier at Ar Hlnsas City, Kimmel went to Topeka tO have some bonds redeemed. From
 o. eka he wenC to kansas city. Real Ling that he could not reach Kansas
 " before the close oI banking hours ..e telCphoned his bank correspondent o have S530.2O brought over to the .aidland hoCel. lie arrived at the 4Otel and the cashier handed hlsd the ~rl ency. lmmedi-te,y safter he iefu ,-e hote saRsda sasRsda fi6m mat hour he has
 e.er been seen alive, according to ne decta ation of hIs relatives ana h. .InaJe acqGaintances.
 The K mmel family attempted to -OHect insurance after the seven year
 eriOd, atter which a missing man IS
 -esdmed to Ee dead Kimmei, three
 -onths before his disappearance, had ak-n cut insUl anCc 10 che vdiue o. y-5,yO0. At the time of his disap-
 oaranCe, according Jo evidence inIo-
 4-eu aJ the | rsu I4aI Of the Insdr- .nUe saIt n4mmel owed neariy S45,- Jc0, which has since been made good.
 m the meantime the insurance com pany discovered a man in tae asylum
 hR .Fa.r D. h., wHO aImeQ 10 Le h.mme
 G L,Ie Jue Haluc CI andrew NnIJe.
 A the cOu- SC of interviews the man ave a n4mber of start ng facts -.bout hlmseh purportIng to prove lat he vas nimmel According to ..s original story he had been assault q by rOotpads in Kansas city and the -ltack nad left him mentally irrespon- -.J4e and tor a Iong tine he was uD.
 .aIe O. his identity. While T thIs oA4Itlon, he decldI ed that he h4d ymmItJed crimes which led to his -4gusOnment
 .e,eId- years ago the insurance -o-Apany preceded m earnest to try -J .Ggauy establish the man ident ty Jy inducing friends and relatives to Isit the convict at Matteawan. Many .. these witnesses declaTed the con .Ct was George A. Kimmel whom |, hey had known intimately. Mrs. Jul .. 4sIeIIe hImmei, the mother, and IFS. Edna W. Bonslett, the ster, -.ter studying the convict carefully denounced the man as an impos e
 when 4hC convict was recessed rCm pr4son last summer he immedi- ..yeIy went to Kimmels o.d home in lies, Mich, where he endeayored prove that he was the missing clsh- =r The mother and other relatives Jf Kimmei denounced m again as .a ImpOster. But other residents OI ,iles NhO had known Kimmel inti- EaJeIy deciaTed their belief that the l4n from Matteawan was the former Jank cashier. A cousin and uncle of .immel, his former Sunday school eacher and a number of business len in good standing he d nter1ews Aith the ciaimant,. Afterward they ated incidents which the man oi mystery" brought to their minds, or hey to his, that confirmed then bede, hey said, that he is the real Kimmel nat they knew years ago.
 An interesting feature in connec- 4Du NiLu tie Aildl iS ANt Adtl LLaL oth Attorney r. N. Bacon, who has ought for the Kimmel interests for ears, and Attorney Edward II. O }rein of Chicago, who represents tho insurance company in the case, knew he real George A. Kimmel. Mir Bac- m knew him from bcyhoOd, and he toutly declares he cannot be mistak- n in the ex-convict, whom he says is lot the real K mmel, while Attorney Brien with equal pOsitiveness de- ares the former convIct is the man hom ne knew as Kimmel.
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