Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-27
WIFE WILL NOT SEE HIM;
HIS OLD NE|GHDORS JEER
Capt. Barton S. Cruikshank,
Voluntary Exile, Rebuffed
at Former Home.

POTSDAM n. Y. January 21.-Capt.
Barton S. Cruikshank, the corpse" re-
divivus, came back today to this town.
where for eighteen months he left his
wife to think herself widow. and a
flock of creditors to think him dead:
came back in the high glare Of the no.
toriety that fell upon him when he was
discovered alive In New York as Donald
Douglas. engineer and lady charmer. He
returned in the hope that his wife would
receive him.
But this hope was short-lived after his
arrival Mrs. Cruiksllank through her
brother. Herbert n. Stickney. conveyed to
him the message that she was unforgiv-
ing, that she could not bring herself to
the thought of seeing him or allowing the
children to see him.
And II this reception to the returned
schooimaster and militia officer was not
sufficiently disconcerting, the attitude of
those whom he encountered at the Pots
dam railroad station when his train ar
rived at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon and
OF nose old acquaintances whom he saw
on the streets must have greatly tended
to influence Cruikshank's departure,
which he made six hours after arriving.
He left for Syracuse.
Tnfriendly Greeting.
Cruikshank, with his nephew, Herbert
n. Stfckney, jr., whom he had picked up
at Albany, where the Stickneys live, and
whose attitude toward him had been
frigidly formal, were in the last coach
of the train.
When he got out at Potsdam he was
instantly recognized. Cries of Better &c
back where you came from" and You're
not wanted here and Beat it, assailed
his ears. He WINGED. but once or twice
threw defiant glances at the crowd.
There was some ameloration in the
ract that his brother-in-law greeted him
with an apparently warm and cordial
| camera clicks and squad of reporters
| and the crowd from the bridge at his
heeis. he walked rapidly with Stickney
and his nephew to waiting sleigh.
He fairly leaped into it and the horses
| were set at a smart gallop to the law
offices of Judge George w. Fuller. The
judge was Cruikshank's counsel in the
old days. but is now the representative
Of the mans wife.
1t was he who placed Cruikshanks
| estate In probate before the surrogate.
| took out letters of administration and
In good faith set about collecting the
life insurance money for the widow
His Wife Obdurate.
ut is useless for you to attempt to
see your wife, his brOther-in-law told
Cruikshank as they rode. "She will not
consider a meeting-will not consider a
reconciliation. You might as well un-
derstand, first as last, that 1t is all over
between YOU"
| Later, before he departed for SYRIA
| cuse, the captain said to reporters:
We'll. 1 considered it my duty to re-
turn and ask my wife to reinstate me
/ In my old place. 1 would like to have
done so and worked to support her and
| the children
DO you love your wife more than Miss
Carol RobertS?" he was asked.
''Well, no." was the astonishing an
swer, Ito tell the truth / probably love
| Miss Roberts more
While at Albany Cruikshank bought q
1.OOO-mile ticket. indicating that his
plans for a reconciliation failing, he
might again do vanishing act.
NANEp MEN ANnED uN