The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-22
Fox and his

hausted and quivering. Fox and his
wife tried to sooth him.
Hunt said: you are not George
Kimmel. You are an imposter. You
Kimmel's past life, lust like a parrot
is taught. But when I, who kK eW
Kimmel intimately, come here to QueS-
ton you, you pretend to be angry and
outraged. You are 2 fraud"
The man lying in the Morris chair
sat up again and pointed his shaking
hand at Hunt.
Il know that hard grin on your face
I've seen it before. I saw 1t at Mat
teawan and at Auburn Get out, go
away" he shrieked.
Apologies for Intrusion.
Hunt arose, apo1ogized to Mr.. and
Mrs. Fox Tor intruding. and said:
I just wanted to convince this re-
porter that this was not Kimmel."
II am Kimmel," the quavering voice
of the man in the Morris chair de-
clared
You are Kimmel about as much as
i am" retorted Hunt
81 am broken, I am nervous, the
strain is too much for me. Let no
more of my enemies see me- said the
man in the chair
A half hour later the man who says
he is Kimmel was strolling the streets,
smoking cigar.
Feeling Against Him.
When "Kimmel'' or White as he
was known in prison and at the Mat
teawan, N. Y, State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane, arrived in this city
there were many who were inclined to
credit his story that he was the missing
bank cashier.
Now. however. there is only a small
percentage of the residents of Niles
who knew Kimmel that is not con-
vinced the ex-convict is an imposter.
The extent of this conviction was ex-
! emplified in straw vote taken by
George F. Fraute. cashier of the Niles
City bank, where Kimmel formerly was
employed. Not one in five of those
voting placed any credence in the self
styled Kimmel's claims.
Some of the reasons for this revul-
sion of feeling are:
Mrs. Estelle Kimmel, whom he calls
mother, continues to repudiate him.
Fails in Masonic Test.
Kimmel was a Mason. The man of
mystery failed in a Masonic test
There is not one feature, not one
gesture, not one word that this man
has uttered that causes me to believe
he is my SON. said Mrs. Kimmel to a
reporter.
Il would not say one word until 1
felt satisfied she said. 80 far I am
unconvinced that this man is my SON.
God knows I would gladly take him
to my arms if I thought he were. For
ten years I had believed him dead,
and since this man made his first
claims I have held myself in readi-
ness to believe his story if he could
convince me- I have been and still
am open to conviction.
Greeted Her as Mother.
ct saw this man at Auburn for the
first time. Then I hoped almost against
hope that he was my son. When I
was ushered into his presence he
greeted me as mother. He asked me
if he might call me by that sacred
name. I told him he coutd. but he
must convince me that he was my
son.
"Since than I have seen him twice,
both times here in my sisters house
1 do not believe the man is my SON.
In all the time that intervened be-
tween my sons disappearance and this
mans appearance he never wrote me
a line. Would he have written to all
the other people. as he did, and
ignored me, if he had been my son ~
'sKimmeI'' Is Andrew White.
Arkansas City, Kan, Sept. 22.-That
Andrew J. White, the former convict
who alleges he is George E. Kimmel,
is none other than a man who worked
as piano salesman several years ago
is the growing belief.
Samples of handwriting of the piano
sal alesman and the man who now rep
resents himself as Kimmel were COM |
pared here. They showed marked sim
ilarity. Both writer's. if there be two. |
have habit OF capltallZlng nouns !
without regard to correctness.
A local newspap per has wired White |
in Niles offering to defray his ex-
penses if he would come here and at
tempt to establish his identity.
Not Kimmei. Says Detective.
Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 22.-Cap- |
tain F. H. Tillotson, a detective here
who investigated the case of George A |
Kimmel when he disappeared in 1898,
believes the man in Niles, Mich, is an
i'm postor-
Before his disappearance" Cap
tain Tillotson said, "Kimmel went to
Topeka to sell bonds for the Farmers
State bank of Arkansas City, Kan, of
which he was cashier. The amount of
those bonds was $4,000 and not $19,-
600. as has been stated
.sF<immeI disposed OF the bonds in
Topeka and sent the money to his bank
In Arkansas City imme ediately. While
he was in Topeka he telephoned to
the American National bank in Kan
sas City, the depository of the Farm
ers' state bank, asking them that
slightly more than $500 be sent to the
Midland hotel in Kansas City for him.
when Kimmel arrived at the Mid
land hotel on the afternoon of July
%, 1898, the money was given to him.
Kimmel registered but did not take a
room. He called for cab and few
minutes later stepped inside of it in
front of the hotel That was the last
trace we could find of him.