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lies left Chicago in 1906 with
SIS, 900 with which to finish buying
machinery for the operation of his
mine, the Bonnie Clare, in Goldfeld,
New district. In the fall Of the
year following he wrote his mother,
that he vas on his way home
for a visit. The letter vas from
Minneapolis. That was the last
heard from him. Near Waseca,
while riding in the chair al
of a Northwestern train, he was
stricken. No clew to his identity
was to. be found and he remained at
Waseca for several years. Last No
vember he was found in an uncon-
condition in Chicago and tax
en- to the county hospital and later
to Oak Forest.
The marks of Identification which
Mrs. Pitkin described to the authori-
ties were a small tatooed circle on
the left forearm, the scar Of an ak
wound on the foot, a tiny scar left by
a boil on the neither lip and some
small birthmarks on his back"
~. C. r. Stuff in Chicago Papers
Monday morning the Chicago
American and Tribune were giving
their readers front page articles re-
garding the 81. c. r. affair, which,
to readers in Stark county, is about
as silly as much of the stuff which
was printed by eastern papers some
years ago about Dan Russell of Bos-
ton will contest fame. James D.
Greenbaum, who knew of the action
of the court at Dickinson, is likely
the mar who gave the newspaper re-
porters the material for their yarns.
The Chicago Tribune wired Mayor
White this week to know if he was
one of the prominent men who identi-
fled 81. G.. R." as Jay Caldwell. The
wired the PRESS to know
where 81. C. r." could be found, all
of which is laughable in view of the
development of the last two months.
Here is one of the Chicago articles:
Chicago, Nov. 3.-The mystery
over the Identification of 81. C. r."
the imam who couldn't remember"
deepened yesterday with the follow
ing complex development:
81. c. RS" suit for 100000
against J. H. Caldwell, the wealthy
rancher he claims as his father, was
dismissed in court. ~ ...s:,,
Caldwell r~eiterates his charge that
81. C. r." and his Chicago hackers are
conspirators, but Caldwell's daughter
has identified the man of mystery as
her brother.
Dispatches from Dickinson, N. D.,
the scene of the tangle, disclose the
fact that rs residents of the town,
former neighbors of the Caldwells,
identified 81. C. R." as the missing
son three months ago.
Mrs. Pitkin Disappears
Mrs. H. E. Pitkin, who identified
~. G. R." last summer as her long
lost son, Earl lies, disappears from her
home. Her husband declares her
identification was a mistake.
Attorneys for Caldwell in North
Dakota declare that Minnesota court
records show ~. C. R." was commit
ted there prior to the disappearance
Of Caldwell's missing son.
Attorneys for 81. c. r." allege that
records are in error and
promise to renew suit in several
months as soon as evidence is gath
cred.
And to complete the complexity of
the enigma, ~. C. R." the mute OBJ
ject of the whole identity tangle, is
being kept in hiding by those who are
backing his claims for $1OO,O 600 worth
of North Dakota farm lands now held
by the supposed father.
When ~. G. r" sued for the money
he claimed that "his father"
had secured after his disappearance
by forged notes for $4,000, the ell
der Caldwell retaliated by filing a
for the dismissal of the suit
and brought counter charges, accus-
ing ~. C. r." James D. Greenbaum,
Chicago broker, and Mrs. III. E.
with conspiracy to defraud.
Rancher's Motion Sustained.
District Judge w. C. Crawford, sit
at Dickinson yesterday, sus-
tanned the motion Of the rancher and
the original suit for $780,
600. The dismissal raj ruled by de-
fault. It was not contested by the
for 81. c. R."
The abandonment Of the suit was
by them on the grounds
it will not prejudice the case of
their client, for the case will be re-
opened in a few months.
Last night at Dickinson it was au-
thoritatively stated that 81. G. RS"
allowed the suit to go by
default because they were not pre-
pared to push it at the present time.
It was said that Cs1dwell's attorneys
had discovered an incongruity in
dates existing in the records of the
institution to which the
man Of mystery was committed and
the date on which the rancher's son
The date of the ~. C.. R.'s' COM
mitment in the State hos
pital at Rochester, Mimi, after he
had been found wandering around in
daze, is said to antedate by several
months the day on which the son Of
the rancher disappeared.
In abandoning the suit, the lawyers
for ~. C. r." said that they will be
able to prove that the discrepancy in
the dates was caused through a mis-
take in the hospital records. They
said they welcomed the delay Of sew