Show 11 i 71 ia I 1 I 1 val A north dakota man long imprisoned by enemy for 14 years had been mourned as dead returns home with re tale of tion and bad treatment larimore N D mourned as dead for 14 years a handsome monument over his supposed sip posed grave and bis wife in posses lson of insurance money on his life glen R kimball former bank er of deadwood S D suddenly ap feared on the threshold 0 his wife s home here last week transfixed as if made of marble mrs kimball rec her husband his mother just coining up to the porch also knew her son this dra matic scene was the climax of a re series of events many of which are not yet clear it was how ever a happy reunion while kimball Is legally dead his wife Is in corn tor table circumstances and it Is un der stood that he will be received as if long absence had not occurred it was not the of a modern enoch arden tor mrs kimball had remained single during all the years of her husband s absence it was on an unlucky Sept enibel 13 14 years ago last fall that kimball left his hoffe at deadwood to go on a three days hunting trip on the day he was expected home the supper ta was set with all the things he liked best and the wife and his moth er awaited his return but he came not As the days passed and no word of the missing man was received a search was instituted which was fruit less on kimball s arrival last week so soon as the shock of surprise had given place to the joy of beun on the husband was asked for an explanation of his absence the story he has told is disconnected and lacking in many important facts it however contains a number of sensational features and intimations of serious charges against a deadwood man whose name is not given in reply to many interrogations anxiously put by his relatives kirn ball will only state that he has been confined somewhere against his will and allowed no communication with tle tl e outside world he declares that he wrote letters that they torn up before his eyes and he was told he was crazy allegations of shameful abuse are made by kimball and in support of these he points to the ab beuce of several front teeth which he avers were knocked out by those who were his keepers it Is intimated that all of kimball s tro ables v ere due to an enemy in deadwood whose name is withheld by the family after kimball s disappearance the dead body of a man resembling him under the snow fence along a railroad track by some aabol ers the body was positively didenti fled is being that of kimball the es tate was probated and the insurance 01 his life collected from the 0 U W amo inting to 3 the body ads buried at reno neb near which place it was found A year latey it was taken up and and taken to dead wood S D and there interred two years later he was again exhumed and laid at rest in the family cemetery at er minn where a handsome monument was erected when kirn bill left home he was traced as tar as lincoln neb where he was final ly arrested the conductor says that kimball boarded his tra n and went into the baggage car where it was fo nd that he had no ticket he paid his fare to the next station and was ordered out of the baggage car into a coach the conductor noticed that he had a large roll of bills and a big reviver sticking out of his pocket after passing one more station the conductor again lecter fare and once more ordered kimball out of the baggage car he did not go and the conductor wired the officials at cumsey where he was taken in charge kimball had on his person several valuable vilu able papers relating to mining stock and about in cash kim ball gave the police an assumed name and as there were no charges against hill and his home could not be lo 10 catel he was shortly released similar events transpired at lin coin neb there the trail ended kimball stoutly refuses to give any particulars of his travels or of his al lebed incarceration |