| Show MS furns UP MRS MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY OLD FRIENDS MODERN ENOCH ARDEN TALE body thought to have been his hl had been I 1 identified dentI fled and burled buried by relatives A alleged I 1 lebed slayer proves prove alibi fairfax mo when jacob A funk alighted from a train at skidmore nodaway godaway county and greeted and was mas recognized by hla his old friends be was as ono one who arose from the dead and could also have enacted the part ot of enoch arden for tho the philip ray and hla his wife still reside in the tha town ile he could even have done something more startling than this lie ai could have teen been taken to the cerne cemetery tery and been shown the grave tn in which his body mas supposed to have hava been laid more inore than a dozen bears ago ife I 1 to did not do this but left on oil the first train tor for Mar markville maryville where he suddenly ap reared before his sister MIB D 8 holmes who felt that she was wan con fronted by one from another world the story etory that fouros the basis of these surprises and complications Is a somewhat peculiar one dating back 14 ears cars in the spring of 1894 jacob A runk funk 34 years old and frank aldge who was a few years aunger ou nger were farming fanning on oil shares near skid more barly barly in april funk left bm home la fit a rickety road cart ostensibly for the purpose of buying seed coed potatoes ile he did not return and after many das hla his friends decided that ho be had bad left the country or that lie he had been killed A search ren re paled nothing and in august ridge disposed ot hla hia bhare of the chop to the mother of the miss ing man and went merit to kansas city alty moie than a ear passed and early in december 1895 fragments ot of a hu bu man body were found hanging to a tree in a ravine in atchison Atch laon county about six miles west of other bones an old valise and some pieces of clothing wore were found on the ground nearby attention was at once directed to the disappearance of funk arid and home of ills his relatives were sure that the body was his ills aged father said eald that he be could recognize F J she felt that she was confronted by one from another world the skull by lesson leason of the fact that one cheek tons bone was higher than the other the suspicion was aroused that jacob funk had been murdered and the question of finding the murderer came up Su suspicion spirlon pointed to ridge the partner and sheriff shackelford of atchison Atch lson county went to kansas city and placed him under arrest the warrant was issued by justice proud of the township in which the skeleton was found but ridges at torney took a change of venue and the case was pent to fairfax here december 26 1895 the preliminary examination was bad baa before justice blesius and justice wilson more than 60 witnesses had bad been summoned but 13 were ere examined ridge proved that he had spent the night previous to funk s 8 bearance pe arance at quitman aultman and came back to skidmore un on a tiala that arrived shortly after runk funk had started As he worked all that day it was wag shown to have been impossible that to ie could have committed the deed A year or two after this mrs punk funk was married to james gibbs of skid more and they still reside at that place As aa indicated hy by the brought out in the trial of ridge some mystery seems to be connected ith punk eunk since his bis return he talks free 1 h only he be refuses to explain why by he left so suddenly saving that hat ho bo bad a cause for it ife he also re fuses to tell where he has been and what hat ha be has been doing it in some way came out that he had been living in irl for the last six years and tt it Is apparent that lie he has boon been ous ills ilia reticence extends not only to hla his warmest friends lenda fr but ot his near opt ent relatives the fact being fully established by his return that the body found hang lug ing in acl I lon ian an county was not that of 0 funk the ite question as to who it was as who was lian gei or who commit ted suicide Is being asked |
