Republican farmer., 1919-11-14


 name. The day after I arrived at my aunt's house my father came over from Bethel to Danbury to see me. My Aunt Annie said: There is your boy whom we call Henry M Bromley He said: T don't believe so My aunt said: T am sure it is your son. and my father said: Why didn't you come home?' I told him I did not want to come home.
 E'The next day my aunt and I went to my fathers house. My little sister, Helen, at my fathers home said: Go down and see your dog, Henry This dog, whose name is Ted, was glad to see me and jumped up on me and no stranger could have gone to the dog and be greeted as I was. My grand mother, Mrs. Carney, who was look ing out the window with my Aunt Annie Bennett, said there could be no doubt but that l was Henry Brom- ley and not Sam Reddy. I did not see my father that night as we re- turned to Danbury to Mrs. Bennett's The following day Uncle Charley and myself again went to my fath- CTS house. My grandmother, Mrs. Carney, who had been suspicious that I was not Henry Bromley, after she saw that I was crying over the death of my mother, said: Never mind, Henry, your father says he wants you to stay home and rest Jack Beers was in my fathers house at the time and I think Mrs. Steck was there. My Uncle Charley said he would take us down to the lime kiln where my fath- CT was working.
 When We got there met my fath- CT and he said for me to come home ! 1o !, T
 money. I said no, so Fe gave me a dollar I think. We then went to an Italian wine place and all drank some wine and my father came with us also back to my Uncle CharIey's house in Danbury. I remained there and my father came home, I telling him I would be over to see him in the morning, but my father, Henry D. Bromley, said, No, I will come and get you My father did come after me the next day and took me with him to the lime kiln. I did no work that day, but sat around.
 After being in the kiln awhile I | got nervous and my father noticed it. I was afraid some one would come and get me, because I was too near home, but my father insisted on my coming to his house in Bethel and staying with him. I promised I would, but instead I went back to i Danbury, to my aunts house. My father was then positive that I was his son. I have lived in different places since then in Westport, Nor walk. South NorwaIk, Southport, Fairfield, Newtown, Stevenson, Derby . Georgetown and New Canaan. I be- gan visiting in New Canaan at the ] home of John Reddy from the time first came to Danbury.
 ! How I came to call myself Sam l Reddy was because I met a man on he train when I came from New York and got in conversation with { him and l asked him if he had regis 1 tered for the army and he said he had ! and showed me his registra ton card l and classification card with his name 1 on each Samuel T. Reddy, as having ] registered from New Canaan, Connec- i ticut. I told him he did not need these cards any more as the war was i about over and asked him to give i them to me, which he did. He said he did not want them any more be- 1 cause he himself was in some trouble ! and for me not to tell any one that ! I had seen him. He told me he was
 going to Brewster. He got off at ' Brewster with me and he invited me | over to have q glass of beer. I did not go in the saloon with him. He went in and I went on my way. That I was the last I saw of him. I have
 used the name of Reddy ever since. ''The first time I saw John Reddy | in New Canaan, he called me Sam
 T told him I was not Sam and gave him some other name but he insisted I was Sam Reddy, and he asked me if I had any identification cards with me, so I showed him the two registration and class cards with the name of Samuel T. Reddy on it and he said, How dare you be around here?' So I told him there was noth-
 ing I had done, but I left that after 1 noon at 1 o'clock.
 I have not been there since. He i appeared as if he had not seen his
 son in long time and I believe he
 still thinks I am his son, because he paid my fine once recently when
 was arrested for taking a watch while
 in South Norwalk.
 q have three marks on my body that I received some years ago.
 cut my great toe while chopping corG wood for, I think, Billy Hess, at Lime
 Kiln hill, and the cut was a bad one
 and I had it attended to by Dr. Geo
 
 scar on my left hand between my
 thumb and first finger, which I re
 ceived while fixing chair at my
 fathers, Henry D. Bromley's home
 since living in Bethel. I also have
 scar on the bottom of my chin, whicl
 I received by a fall a good many year:
 ago. I have lost the Identification cards and don't know where I lef them. l have carried the number
 serial I took off of the dead man 1T : France in my pocket until about
 month ago when I was in Westport And while there I put it in a slot O a weighing machine in drug stor, there as it just fitted the hole. My opinion is that my father il l denying my identity for the reaso1 that he is afraid I may get in trouble with the government
 l CATHERIN II OF RUSSIA