| Show BOGUS O SON f R SONIN lAW Remarkable Be Case of jon Ion in France Which Ends Happily DECEIVES AN OLD WOMAN Her G a n Real Husband Instead of ot Sh nn Broth cr Strange Story Corre Feb loeb 7 Thero has Just como corno comoto i PARIS DARIS I to light a story In real life lite which I I a II clover clever novelist might weave we ao to rattling good fiction If It h he were willing to run un th the tho risk rk of or having the tim i E ii j h L LI 5 I 4 i I I r 3 I 2 f GENERAL ESS VON AND KAISERS STAFF STAFI AT LEIPSIC critics Jump upon him bUn hard for tor so 10 far tar the tho limits of or reasonable ble probability But nut tho facts In Ia the caso are re all a 11 matter of at court record and there Is no disputing them Near Helfort lives a 11 much respected old eld woman Madame MII lame who owns a R email form farm out ot of which she sheh lias h a contrived to make n a comfortable living despite tho the tact fact that she lost her husband huband many cars eurs IgO and und has hils since had to do most moat of or the hard hanl work about tho the place herself herseLt liar Her only son had hail been bein a u soldier In tho the French army Borne seven years ago ngo nho ho received news that he had hal died In Algeria Great reat was her surprise when In the Spring of or last year she he received n a I I telegram from her daughter who had In a neighboring town which read Brother has returned alivo and well selI She he doubted it yet jet et longed to te bellco beIle It t CrAI TO BE liE SON That day there called upon her hor heri hort i t man loan who claimed to be the tha son she ho hall hal long mourned OH a II dead lie He bore horo boreo borea o a 1 striking resemblance to her soldier boy bo and yet jet et there were differences thought he had changed a great deal How you have havo grown Krown she Paid 1 und and how much darker you 01 have hare Your hair and eyes ces were vere I luite light colored Now you look Ionic like a II Southerner That Th t Is the ef et effect I I of or tim tilt African sun lIun mother mothel ho said Mid OA lIB she sho ho Hung her old around him It was a II comrade of his hl he lie ex cx explained who had died nil and the mill mili military tary authorities who take 1111 no Interest In Individual had rot got the I names mixed Ho Ito penitently acknowledged r knol edged that ho he had treated her Mr shame shamefully tully fully In not writing to her for tor pc so long lon but lie he wa was going to make amends for tor that by taking all the tho hard work ork of ot the form farm ort oft her hands Ho Ito proved as u good as os his word He lie lived at nt the tho farm tarm managed It Mother Jeanroy happier than she eho he lint hal ever ver expected to be lie again ol ln In this world eat cl tied down to the tho enjoyment of ot freedom from cart care and toll WENT w lP ON 0 FOIl l On MONTHS Things went sent on In this fashion tot for months He Ito contrived connived to see Ree seea a II good gool deal of or the thu daughter tel and she soon foon discovered that Hint she bile won vas much mud fonder toMer of l n brother than the ii 11 she hud bud been won before he lie went away EVe where hero In the tho ti neighborhood he lie was vas ne OC nef f Mod a as tho the missing ml It was OccasIonally cn discovered that th t lie ho had hud forgotten things connected with old OIl acquaintances that ho he ought In to have havo remembered but he attributed such uch lapses of or memory to the of or tl that at same lame African can Con un sun which had wrought such luch a change ch In his complexion lon THERE CAME CA m A DAY Hut there came carno a 1 day d Y when the tha mil mu military milItary authorities had occasion to In sped reel his army certificate It bore boro the tho name of ot That he Mid was wan the name namo ho had hac enlisted under but buthis buthis his Ills name namo wan really B t Jeanroy as old Mother Iother Jeanroy and a lot of other folk would Vold testify If Ir ry end he ho ask nak asked ed el that thai the Urn true name should hould be enter entered ed 1 on hi his hll TIlo rho military au willing to L J oL i V tuto tute a IL 1 true truo name n mo for n R false falsa one hut but they explained the th regulations requited required ed them at to tf make un Investigation hIM HAn DIED That Investigation Ino showed that S Jeanroy had hall really died In military I ser lIer service service vice In Algeria and that had 1111 been Ills Ide hl me and most frIend there Through this clone ClOMP com corn companionship he heh had ld learned u ii dent about his hI dead comrades family f circum circumstances stances and that and the he lie bore boro to ti him hall had mado It easy when dealing with simple folk talk to personate him him The h fraud wad WM unmasked and lIn wire was arrested und and put on trial trill rom O G It U was UM then matters took a IL I still moio nOlI turn tuiti Old 01 1 Mother Iother though convInced that was not her son sob wrote tho thu judge piteous on boh behalf of her h Iy liS as ship shu hu called him Ho flu hull hud sho ho saId Bald taken her dead sons place In III her heart ho could not hear bear to think of having to ro robuck buck brick to her old life again without him bIte Sho preferred iv It I bogus son to tn no tl on OIt tit lit atall nil all And her daughter who haul hod been Iteen equally taken In bore hor her sham broth brother er or no at all nil Sire She nl pleaded Intended for tor him mum Before the matter batter limo dime up for tor Until judicial sine sho was wis ablo to announce that having discover discovered ed ell sho she Will was not lIot tho tito prisoners sister she had marl consented eon to become beoni his wife wire TIlE THE UND I D 01 IT ALL Under tho the circumstances counsel argued lie ho hall hail really no Ho Injury Injun on thou those whom he hl had hll deceived ed oil but bUl had brought happiness to the tho home which he had hall entered under false pretenses Instead of a 1 son Ion old Mother Jeanroy would gain a and nOlI her daughter a u real husband nd In nine lace Iaco of ot a 11 bogus brother Tho Judge proved himself possessed of or both sentiment nod common sense seme Matrimony he Ire re ro regarded as something which everybody should do 10 his hili utmost t to encourage In France Ho Ito indulgently Ignored the charge of fraud convicting merely n rely for hiving having illegally worn u it I military outer order bestowed on the tho dead Jeanroy and 1111 1 passed p a n lenient Ion lent sentence of o two months imprisonment with tho the benent of tho offenders orCen lou net All Alls a awell well that ends welt well and anil this case will end as ns till nil good stories should end In III Ina a it wedding |
