The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-18
WIFE COLLECTS S2O,OOO AFTER
 FAXED DEATH
She Gets Life Insurance Though Not a Party to Plot by
 Which He. Vanished
Now Capt. Cru:kshank Turns up and About to Wed When Recognized by Former
 Associates
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 New York. Jan. 1s-Yanlshing into the night after crushing his canoe go that it would be believed that he was dead--a plot that worked so well that his wife collected S2O,O0O life insur- | ance-Captain Barton Cruikshank. of Pottsdam, this state, soldier. athlete and educator, wandered about Bhe country for several months and then came toeNew York .aaSfDdhad Doug las-, Under. that name. it. developed today, he courted Miss Catherine their engagement was to have been announced shortly. But, just when, it seemed that he had succeeded in as- Suna1ng a new personality. CruikSHaI1E1 was recognized by former associates in the state national guard and he ia now once more a fugitive, while the girl he deceived is congratulstinE her. self on her narrow escape.
 At her houIesv t6azy Miss Robert told the story of her engagement to the dashiIlg former Euardsulan. She was introduced to him by her broth CT, who. had met him in a business way, and was charmed with his frank and engaging manner.
 Last Saturday Miss Robert accom- panied Douglas" to the Porto Rican steamer and he sailed for San Juan. Porto Rico, on business connected with lishment he had begun here. Whether he is actually 1on boaFd the steamer is not known but friends here think that he did not sail They believe he took some other route knowing that he had been recognized and that his Douglas disguise had become known
 sI knew Mr. cruikshaniz as Donald Douglass said Miss Robert, today. that he was anything but what he represented himself to be. It was plain from his talk that he had ftrav- eled extensively and we were all T,s- -g-l1 marriage and I agreed to wed him able,
 CruiI<shank who disappeared Iron Nor thern New York. in June. -1Sd9s we had not the slightest suspicion. a.l- though my brother had met Mrs Cruikshank. The knowledge that he was married and had two children had utterly prostrated me. While accompanied him to the steamer. last Saturday. did not stay until it sail- ed so I do not know whether he ac- tuaIly went south But am glad e have discovered his duplicity in tlr1e-E
 Cruikshank told Lowen E. Ginn, New York lawyer who went to sec him after his Identity he'd been eS- fafIished by Adiutant General Vera tcI+ of inc s+ste sI7ationaI guard that he had sunk all of his money trying to establish a military school and de cided to disappear and make neoRte think him dead. In June, 1s10 he went canoeing on the St Lawrence and stove in the side of the canoe so it would be believed he had neen Tl.A down by steamer and =drowned. Then he made his way to ClevefaIIa and secured a job as solicitor for e1s National Guard Maga zine. Tn this position he ttended the various nazs tfonaI guard encampInents and finally came to this eity where under tne name of Donald DouFlas. he got a contract to do some enEineering work for the state national guard General verbeck met him under the name oZ Douglas and. despite the fact that he- had shaved off his long beard ana rnoustache and his hair had turned snow white. recognized him as the forner officer with whom he had been ve-recF sent word to. Mrs; cTuia- shartrss attornev. According to Sim c.r1iRshank declared he had never Teen so harpv as since he ahandoneets hts f., railv and former friends ana he also said that he had been sending money tn his wife under an assumed name telling her that he was a friend Of her -hUsbapd.F
 Tt is said that arraT1 e1eTnents will De noade at once to reFalT77 +he insurance. money paid on Cruikshank's polic4s~