Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-20
Man Claiming 10 Be Mrs,
kimme|'s Son
May Deprive Her Of $4,000
in Insurance Money.
Policy Paid..aIIsged Son Identified
Company Wants Money.

Mics, Mich, Sept. 19.-Almost the
entire population of Niles met at the
railroad station today the prisoner
from the Auburn, n Y, pententiary
who represents himself to be George
A. Kimmel. the son of Mrs Stella
Kimmei, but whom the woman de-
nounces as an imposter, who is try
ing to deprive her of $4,000 insurance
which she held ON the life of her son.
who she asserts, is dead.
Up 10 late tonight the crowds
thronged the station expecting to see
the prisoner. who says he lived here
Is years ago. Meanwhile secluded in
her little home, Mrs. Kimmel. vino is
20 years old, bitterly denounced the
expected ~isiter. Word came from Au
',.,ep that the man had left there,
but the time of his arrival here was
+ t.aCGrLaIn.
Whether the man, if he is the We
mans son. will insist upon the fact
and thus deprive his mother of So, Oeo
insurance, or whether ON facing the
woman, he viii declare IL IS not her
son. vas the dramatic situation Viii Il
the residents hoped u see hraTH 8
"a climax.
He is not my SON cried Nf
mel today in unison with her IL a. as.
Mrs. Edna Kimmel Bonslett. Nh sen
died long ago and this is opy a Wierd
tick % rob me of the insurance
Tho real Kimmel is said te have left
here Il wears ago. Evidence came lat
er suggesting that lie had died and the
insurance money WAS asked for. The
Insurance company is then said to
have expended thousands of dollars in
running down theory that Kimmel
did not die. He was traced to Arkan-
sas city, kas.. where, So far as his
family processes to know, he WAS last
seen. Then man answering the DIS
crption of kimmel was found in
dazed condition in st. Louis He reciv-
cred in a hospital and later left for
New York. where in the name of An
drew J. White h. was arrested on a
larceny ctuTse. After more wanderinss
he was found in m asylum in New
York and afterwards traced to Auburn
pendeutiary. This is the man. WHO.
Tue insurance company says. is the
real Kimmel.
Kimmel arrived at his home here
frem the Benitentiary at Auburn. \.
y. ate tonight and was identified by
dozen af former friends and acquant-
anees.
Despite kimmefs Identification, how
ever. and his acceptance by other rel
atives, his mother, Mrs. Stella Kim
mel, refused To see him tonight
KimmeFs arrival here was dramatic
III the eXtrcme. As he stepped from
TIE train, scores attempted to talk to
him, but his friends hurried him to a
waiting carriage and drove him to the
home Of his cousin, Mrs Harry l..
Fox. Here he was also met by F. \.
McCouk and Richard Dugan, two of
the men who had known kimmel best
IL the old days
Let me see your wrist" said pu-
gan To kimmel.
Yes the old scar is there contin-
ued Dugan as he examined Kimmels
arm, but / don't need sthat Veritica-
ton to know that this man is George
kmmcl and no other
4 know it is George" exclaimed
Mrs. Fox Il cannot understand why
nv mother does not want to see me,
said Kimme!. she always treated me
we'll, dressed me in the best of cloth
ing when | was d boy and sent me
Through High school. | still hold the
greatest love FOR her and nothing
would be- greater boon than to go
hael, home after all these years of
trouble and suffering "