Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1917-11-16
DEAD MAN PAYS
HIS WIFE > VISIT
After Dropping Out Of Sight Tor Tan
Years, Conductor Returns. Eats
and Goes Again.

and Goes Again.
Springfield. Mo. - Andrew l.. War
len. So. and declared by formal court
decree To be dead, returned TO his
wifes home here. had long interview
and breakfast with her. then pulled
his shabby overcost about him and set
out sfoot for Nichols Junction. four
miles from here. where he said he
would catch a freight train and 60 to
nowhere" He had Is cents in his
pocket when he arrived about
O'Clock In The morning and the same
amount when he departed.
Warren had been absent ana silent
for ten years. The last his wife heard
from him he was q conductor on the
International Railway OF Mexico. This
was In 1906. Recently Mrs. Warren
filed suit In the Circuit Court to en-
force collection of $4,000. the amount
OF life insurance carried by her hus-
hand In the Order of Railway Con-
ductOrs. This action also involved
legal rulings as TO whether Warren
was alive OF dead. and the court ac-
cepted the reasonable presumption
hat he was dead.
When denied new trial, the Order
OF Railway Conductors paid the $4,000.
Incidentally, now hat the missing
man has reappeared In the flesh. coun
sci for the order have taken steps to
hav, the judgment against II re-
fob nta To- Of
the $4,000 by Mrs. Warren. but the
latter says IL suit Ia fled IL will have
TO be against her lawyers as well as
herself as she had TO pay them half
the amount as a fee.
Several days ago Warren was
arrested on a minor charge at Car
thage, Mo. Compelled to seek the aid
or friends to get out Of that difficulty,
his identity was revealed and his
wife notified. Her two brothers. +. l.
and +. p. White, merchants here, went
10 Carthage and identified him. and
together they came TO Springfield and
To the Warren home, arriving there
afte" midnight.
The wife had prepared herself for
his return, so there was no unusual
commotion. To his wife, az also to his
brother-in-law, Warren said he was on
his way TO this city to try t, effect
reconciliation with his wife when
arrested at Carthage.
Il have no explanation 10 make"
Warren told his wife. The only thing
can say Is that because OF my health
took to heavy drinking. ] saw was
not Poing to make living, even for
myself. knew would jus. drag you
down, so decided to drop OF the
earth. thought you would be better
off without me-"
Then he launched into a story Of his
wandering which consumed the time
till dawn of a new day.
Briefly, he said he. remained In
Mexico till the landing of American
troops at Vera Cruz. With other
American refugees, he fed Mexico,
coming to Galveston. Texas. on an
Army transport. From there he went to
New Orleans. La, and had an oper.
alton performed. Then he went to the
Louisiana oil fields and subsequently
TO Oklahoma and Kansas. He was
working In the Kansas oil fields, he
said. when he determined to seek his
wife.
Il never thought would ever have
70 accept the charity Of my own wife"
sobbed Warren as he sat at the break
fast table. Breakfast over, he pulled
his overcoat about him and again went
out into the world as stated.
Warren did not ask his wife to take
him back. You are comfortably fixed
and have nothing" he told her you
will be better of without me. II ever
make anything Of myself and get SO
that ] can support. you again. will
come back"
One letter was all Mrs. Warren ever
received from him. For ten years she
waited and no word came.
I'm the one letter received from
Andy after he went to Mexico he ask.
cd me to come to him as soon as
possible" Mrs. Warren said. "He told
me to address him care OF the general
delivery, Mexico City. ] wrote to him.
but my letter returned. l never heard
Of him since.
Then correspondent with Mexican
railroad officials. got little salts
faction. All they could tell me was
that he left Zacatecas on his run one
night and was never seen nor heara
Of again. supposed bandits attacked
his train and killed him"
Warren was married to Miss Mary
Coleman in Springfield In 1897. At
that time he was a conductor on the
Frisco railroad. Later they moved to
Mena, Ark, where Warren became a
conductor on the Kansas City South.
ern.
Attracted by high wages being paid
railroad men. Warren left Mena in
1905 and went to Montclove, Mexico,
and obtained employment as o con.
ductor on the International of
Mexico
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