The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-08-26
~. C. X. IDENTIFIED AS
JAMES HARRIS NOW MAKING
HOME WITH FORMER WIFE |

JAM Ed 11AN1tl0 lNOV MAAA1NU
HOME WITH FORMER WIFI
~. C. r., Dickinson's world-famou
man of mystery, is now in st. Pau
identified as James P. Harris by hi
former wife, now Mrs. Lambert Y
Blue, and is living on her bounty.
The romantic story that has com,
to climax in the Twin Cities begal
almost a quarter of q century az,
in Duluth. Mrs. Blue then littl,
country girl, visiting in town, me
James p. Harris, 20 years her sen
Tor, we'll dressed, wealthy, TYPICAL!
English. They fell in love and wert
married. On June !, 1907, her hus'
band babe her goodbye to 60 on
fishing trip. He never came back.
A few days later, in shed in Wa
lseca, Mimi, Waterman found q
strange man lying unconscious, hi
head showing signs of having beer
beaten and gashed. .
He became ward OF the state
and in time began to write the mys.
terious initials, ~. c. R." -Four times
he was identified, once as a naval
officer, once as the son Of CALDWELL
Dickinson ranchman, once as the hus'
band of Mrs. Rose Harris Of Pres.
ton, MINI. But every identification
proved faulty. Then, her curiosity
aroused by stories of the northwest's
mystery man, Mrs. Blue, divorced
from Harris, and married to St.
Paul man, went to Seattle and found
~. C. R." She identified him as her
first husband Since then, she says,
she has supported him.
The end of his long War'er7r s
came when she brought him back to
St. Paul, where he saw again, for
the first time in 13 years, his daugh-
ter, Dorothy Harris, now 18 years old.
Attracted by the stories about the
"mystery man" which appeared in the
Dickinson Press and other newspapers
Mrs. Blue came to Dickinson with the
object in view of identifying the man
if he was really her long lost hus-
band. She was accompanied by her
daughter. She called at the Press
office, where she obtained the informa-
ton that ~. C. R." had left for the
Pacific coast. She was shown photo
graphs of the mystery man, which she
declared were the likeness of her long
lost husband. She later followed ~.
C. R." to the coast and positively
identified him as her former husband.
A few weeks ago she brought him
back from California, where he lived
for almost a year on funds she fur
nished him, to her own home in the
twin cities. Officers Of the state
board of control informed Mrs. Blue
that they had learned she had brought
u. C. R." into Minnesota despite the
ruling that she must furnish a $4,000
bond to guarantee that he never
would become public charge.
She answered that although she
had brought him to her home in St.
Paul she never would let him become
a burden to the state.
Officials Of the board of control
said that she informed the deporta-
lion officer that she would send Harris
out of Minnesota again as soon as
certain business matters could be
cleared up.
Had Florida Plantation
And right there another strange
thread, tangled itself into the web Of
mystery that has :shrouded ~. C.
R." in his wanderings up and down
the northwest, homeless, friendless,
without money, without memory, with
)ut even name.
For somewhere in the past, be-
lore he babe his wife goodbye to 60
IN a fishing trip in June, 1907, from
which he failed to return, the James
Harris who has just come back from
The port of missing men owned
plantation in Florida. and stock in
! Duluth merchandise company, state
officials said today. The stock was
;urned back to the company by his
wife, after he vanished, but owner
ship of the Florida plantation became
! part Of the mystery that baffled
eminent Of states, in their efforts to
race the lost James Harris. Equal
y vain were their efforts to identi-
y the mysterious wanderer, who ap-
oeared in Minnesota soon after Har-
is vanished, who could not speak or
and who could write only
;hree letters, ~. C. R."
Reason for Return
It is to find into whose hands own
,rship of the Florida estate passed,
and to seek recovery of the stock
which went back to the company Of
which he was manager when he disap-
oeared, that Mrs. Blue brought her
'ormer husband back to Minnesota,
md took him into her own home, al
hough she has been divorced from
Tim for years, board of control off
:ials said they believe.
Gordon Makes Fortunate Purchase
Herman Gordon, proprietor of the
Boston store, is back from Chicago
md points in Iowa where he trans
lcted business and visited friends for