The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-04-01
SUPPOSED DEAD MAN
SAYS TWAS MISTAKE
Patrick Driscoll, Thought 30 Have Been
Killed by Train at -Middlesex, Read
About 1t in Newspaper and
Comes to Montpelier.

Supposed to be dead and buried after
having been killed by Central Vermont
train near Middlesex Sunday morning,
Patrick Driscoll hopped off train at
Montpelier last evening and shocked his
many friends by showing that he was
very much alive. The man identified
by brother, Jerry, by cousin, Mi
chael, by other relatives and friends as
Patrick Driseoll and who was buried at
Keene, n. H., yesterday is, therefore,
unknown.
The first that Patrick knew he was
supposed to be dead was when he went
to Bethel village from Granville where
he had been working for a pulp com
pany, and was shown a newspaper tell
ing of his being mangled and killed at
Middlesex. Patrick was very much sur
prised, of course and he said he pro-
posed to show his sister, Mrs. Albert
Kane, of Montpelier, right off that he
still was in the flesh. So he boarded a
train and reached Montpelier at $50
last evening.
The excitement that ensued in Mont
pelier was almost equal to circus.
First to spy Driscoll when he stepped
Off the train was John Dobbs, and the
latter could have been knocked over
with a feather, so surprised was he.
Going up to Dobbs and speaking in the
language of earth, earthly, Driseoll
asked: "Say, what's this yarn about
my being killed at Midalesex-who
started that storyg'
After recovering his oamposure, Dobbs
proceeded to relate the details of how
man was horribly mutilated by a
train and that friends and relatives had
identified the body as that of Driscoll
and had taken the body to keene and
buried it.
well. I'll be darned," was all Dris-
coll could say for the time.
From the station up State street Dris-
coll had march OF triumph. clad in
bright red mackinaw which at the neck
opening revealed an equally bright blue
shirt not the garh OF the spirit world
but that of the lumber camp where Dris-
coll had been busily engaged, all un
during the last few days of
the morrning for him. paddy Driscoll's
here" went the cry and it soon got all
over the city that strange mistake
had been made in identification of the
railroad victim, even the near relatives
being misIed So Driseoll lost no time
in notifying his brother, Jerry, at Keene
that he had buried the wrong fellow
at cost of 500.
Then Driscoll went up to Ridge street
to see his sister Mrs Kane, who had
positively identified the remains as that
OF Patrick, along with the other rela-
tives, and in spite Of the doubt cast on
the Identification by her husband. Mr.,
Kane had maintained for some time that
the body was not that of Drseoll. but
when the brother and cousin came up
from keene and asserted il was their
kin, Mr.. Kane reluctantly gave in and
it must be Patrick.
There was little wonder about the
mistake in identification, as the face of
the train victim was very much mutilat-
ed and torn away, and. too, Driscoll, and
the dead man had many marks of re-
semblanee. Both were tall and well
built both bald, but Driseoll's bald spot
somewhat larger than the dead mans
and his hair somewhat lighter, and add
ed to the fact that Driscoll had not
been seen hereabouts recently the mis-
take was not remarkable. Ii is barely
possible that the man was wanderer,
named Alligator Joe" Campbell, as he
was good deal like Dfiscoll and, ac-
,ording to the latter, was his double.
Driscoll thought it possible that the man
was Campbell, but he was not prepared
to state positively inasmueh as he hadn't
seen the body and was not desirous of
living ber2g to the grave
as he had been, all unwttingly by his
relatives and friends.