New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-01-20
Revealed Identity Upstate.

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No. 80 Church street, New York.
Revealed Identity Upstate.
From these facts it was positively as
serted yesterday by one Of the business
associates Of Douglas that the man VINO
had so strangely disappeared in June,
1910. was in communication with and had
revealed his identity to some one in Pots
dam.
Percival s. Whipple and Reuben A Hall,
the two men who were associated with
Douglas" in business here declared that
ne had explained to them that he got the
books from IAN old fellow upstate, for
whom I'm selling them"
IN one of the books there was letter
pasted on the irside of the front cover. 1t
was dated May 16, 1901, was from ID. A.
Murray. Ithaca" and began MY dear
Professor Cruikshank." On the fly leaf of
another book was an engraved card with
the inscription. "The trustees Of the
Thomas S Clarkson Memorial School OF
Technology cordially invite you to be pres
ent at the exercises Of the school, Main
street, Potsdam, on Tuesday, September g."
and written below the engraved portion
were the words in writing, ITO Professor
Cruikshank." A bound copy of the ad-
vance sheets Of Theoretical and Practical
Graphcs," by Professor Frederick Newton
Wilson, Of Cornell dated 1897, bore the
writing on the fly leaf, with the compli-
ments of Professor Wilson to -" and
after that word a small part OF the fly leaf
had been neatly cut out.
Lowen +. CHM. lawyer of No. lis
Broadway, who was an old friend of Cap
tain Cruikshank in Potsdam, when told of
the books and their inscriptions, which are
still i'm the offices formerly occupied by
Donald Douglas in the Hudson Terminal
Building, said that though he knew moth
ing Of how they got from Cruikshanks
home to the rehabilitated Cruikshank who
lived here as Douglas" he thought It
likely that Mrs. Cruikshank might have
sold them TO any engineer who offered to
buy them Also MI CHM thought it prob
able that Cruikshank might have written
TO her, under some other name, offering to
buy the captains library.
Aided Wife Under Assumed Name.
Mr.. CHM said that ne understood from
Cruikshank that he had sent his wife
money at various times under the name Of
Jeffrey Smith" or "A T. Hoe"
Mrs Cruikshank herself reiterated yes
terday ar Potsdam that she firmly believed
her husband was dead since his disappear
ance, and wished him dead. She emphati-
cally denied having sent any engineering
books to her husband under his own name
or any other name.
He would not have used the name Don
aid Douglas in communicating with his
wife" said Mr.. CHM, because she would
have recognized that as the name of which
he was always Unfortunately fond, because
he was so proud of his Scotch blood"
The lawyer and friend Of the man Of
mystery was emphatic in asserting that no
one in Potsdam not even Mrs Cruikshank,
had any knowledge of the fact that the
captain was alive and living under other
names after his supposed death by drown
ing.
Il know it to be a fact" he said. that
Mrs. Cruikshank never knew her husband
under any other name than Barton S.
Cruikshank. She did not even know that
ne was alive when his sister came down TO
New York last week to identify him. She
knew nothing of # until Mr.. Fuller, her at
torney. reported il to her after that trip Of
identification"
Mr.. CHM said that he had procured let
ters of introduction for Cruikshank to
friends in Porto Rico, and that in return
Crlikshank had promised to live there
under his own name and make an honest
effort 10 live down the scandal of his disap-
pearance. and he thought that it was even
possible that the captain would eventually
come back to New York.
It developed yesterday, also from the
statements Of the former Office associates Of
Donald Douglas" that he had sent pict-
ure Of a woman from Georgia, whose first
name was Elinor. and os whom he had
spoken as his cousin" TO Whites studio
10 have a dozen copies made. Whites were
unable TO find the order or the picture yes
terday. because they had It filed under the
last name Of the subject. they explained,
and without that name they could not get
e. Whipple, the partner of Douglas" said
that the woman was a widow whom Doug
las" had known for years.
The law department OF the Mutual Life
Insurance Company announced yesterday
that the company had never carried any
insurance on the life Of Barton 8. Cruik-
shank Mr.. CHM declared that the New
York Life had a policy on which they de-
clined 10 nay Mrs. Crukshank, on the
ground that LQeE DeUtNtu lie was awe
when she filed the claim, in July, 1910.
Insurance Companies Warned.
In reply TO the intmaion that the fact
of the communication between Cruikshank
and his old home after his supposed death
indicated collision to defraud the life in
surance companies. Mr.. CHM pointed out
that the first thing that had been attended
to by George w. Fuller, Mrs. Cruikshanks
attorney, after he had discovered Cruik-
shank here under the name OF Douglas,
was TO notify the life insurance companies
and the Surrogate who had admitted his
viii TO probate
When Cruikshank left his offices, at No.
90 Church street. last Saturday. ostensibly
TO take the boat for Porto Rico he bore
with him, according TO his office associates,
a letter OF introduction TO an engineer I'm
Birmingham Ala, by the name of Maury
Nicholson. lie received the letter, they
said, on Saturday morning from some
woman in the northern part OF New York
state, 20 whom he had telegraphed on
Thursday Immediately after his dentihca-
ton by the party Of Ogdensburg aud Pots
dam people.
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