New-York tribune., 1912-01-26
CRU|KSHANK BACK HOME
Disappearing Captain Returns
from Porto Rico to Face Music
TRIES TO SELL HIS STORY
Saws He Will Go to Potsdam for
Conference with Wife-She
Will Refuse Reconciliation.

| Syracuse. Jan 25.-"There will be alb
soluteIy no. reconciliation between Mrs.
Barton Cruikshank and her husband y
was the statement given out at the home
Of Mrs. Cruikshank, at Potsdam, to-
night. It is understood that Captain
| Crujkshank will arrive at Potsdam at
noon tomorrow, but at the Cruikshank
home none would discuss the question as
To whether he would be received at the
house.
CaptaIn Barton s. Cruikshank, the man
who revised and modernized the tale or
Enoch Arden, after doing what he couid
TO make the ST. Lawrence River FAMOUS
returned to New York from Porto Rico
Yesterday. and began immediate training
for the Marathon division Of the next
Olympic team.
He led the pack in a zigzag chase OF
, something over two miles from the
Red d Line docks, at the foot OF Mon
tague street, Brooklyn, to the NeVlhs
street subway station-a pack whlch was
composed of reporters, photographers
ca bbes, two Of Crukshanks friends ana
scores o. merry villagers, and, though
MANY fell painting by the wayside, the
captain finished strong and breathing
normally.
The Caracas, on which Cruikshank re-
turned from Porto Rico, came up the bay
early yesterday morning, docking soon
after = o'clock. Aboard the boat Crutk-
shank faced battery of hecklers, smil-
ingly parried all their questions. refused
to say anything about his strange case.
and finally left the pier at such a swift
pace that he was unable to recognize
Lowen T.. Ginn jr., the son Of the lawyer
from Potsdam who assisted at the identi-
ficatiop ceremony which started him on
his voyage to Porto Rico.
After a talk with his lawyer, at No.
11J Broadway, Cruikshank issued
statement, in which he said he was now
willing to 20 back and confer with his
wife ana that he had come back from
Porto Rico to face the music" After
some hours of consultation, during which
the office in which Cruikshank was TAX
ing shelter was besieged with requests
for something more definite about his
plans, the elusive captain. through one of
the attaches of his lawyers office, an
nounced that he had decided to capital
ize his experiences, and that he would be
willing to tell his entire story to any
newspaper man for the sum of $500
The price dropped rapidly in the course
of the next few minutes, until the cap
tains story was going begging at 500,
and still no takers.
Later it was reported that in addition
TO selling his story the captain with the
numerous aliases was thinking of vaude-
VILE as fresh outlet for his energies,
but his lawyer declined to confirm the
rumor.
Probably no one was more surprised at
Cruikshanks peculiar actions after the
boat docked than young Mr.. CHM, who
had evidently been sent by his father to
meet the returning captain. He did not
know, of course, that Cruikshank had
been insisting that he was George w
Muller" to those who questioned him on
the trip up the bay. even taking oath to
Apparently the captain was too excited
to recognize CHM, for when he left the
boat he went by the young man at the |
foot of the gangplank without so much
az IL glance of recognition.
The strange chase through Brooklyn |
streets began then. during the most OF
which CHM vainly endeavored to shout
at the flying captain that he was !
friend. but it was not until the pursuit
landed every one at the subway station
that Cruikshank would allow CHM to
talk to him.
During the excitement Of the chase
Cruikshank accidentally dropped one of
his Donald Douglas Company business
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