Show PENSION PAPERS ARE t BURIED WITH VETERAN The fhe disappearance 6 0 of the pension Loo II ir Wood died who pa papers r of William at Middletown N N. V. V has brought tp ip li light bt the fact fart that he be h had l two W wives and that both have been living within a n radius of oC eight miles for nian many years ar For twenty years Wood ool hid lived in Middletown 1 with wife Nife No to 2 They had ono son ou now 16 years old Pension A Agent ent Edwards of GOlib Goshen D went to Middletown on behalf of Mrs Irs no Delaney Delancy Wood wife No Xo 1 I Iwho who claimed d Woods Wood's pension papers stating that that- Imi his client was married to to Wood December 8 S 8 1868 The Tho papers rg were pre not produced and rind Mrs re Emma Wright ht Wood Woo wife tife No Xo o. o 2 who claims to have married Wood on n February 11 1880 1859 in Brooklyn stated that the miss t buried with 1 the i lug JUg g papers had been l boll body 0 ot of Wood Wood Woodal at his request r to i I I put the tho package o of f papers between bet my 01 husbands husband's left arm and bod body as close c to his Ms heart as possible sho said i hut denied that that- site she hc buried the paper in order to prevent Mrs Ir Wood No 1 I from se securing a a widows widow's pension I HI did not know 0 1 of time tho first firt wife wic when hon 1 married Mr l' l Wood and when I found it out I gave ga C him to give e to 1 her er so O that she hc would not be bet penni penni Ic less ices s. s said Mrs Woo Wood Tho first Mrs Irs Wood who now lives in in Goshen is ig is a n nood good woman onlan and a t respectable wom woman n nanti anti and Mr rr Wood could not have ha secured n a divorce from front her if ho hc- b had bd d w wanted to If she should come to in my house houe I would take her lIef in iii for my JOy heart goeb Ol out to her ber I would not try to prevent her from getting a widows widow's pension pension and would help bp her hr if 1 I could I put put- the papers in m tho the grave ra e with Mr 11 Wood nt at his request u because c I wanted him to to-havo to have the things he beloved belo loved 1 I also put his bis badge in in lm his pocket and it too was as buried with ith him It is 18 not not- necessary sary to the laxly both in order to get tet time the papers as 5 duplicities duplicates 5 can be he secured J |