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Show A EOilANTIO ST011Y . Sirs. HartBiir Returns After Eight Years To find Her Husband Married and Other Complications. Chicago, Dec. 5. Mrs. Pery Hartsig dissappeared in Detroit eight years ago, and a body picked up on the railroad tracks near that place terribly mangled man-gled was identified by Mrs. Hartsig's relatives and buried by them. A few days ago the real Mrs. Hartsig walked into the office of her son, E. A. Hartsig, in the security building. The story told by Lewis W. Hartsig, a Ben of the missing woman, is a very romantic one. He says hie mother together to-gether with his father and six children, lived in Detroit eight jers ago, and that his njtj Vr was nop ijff.diged ecided to send her to thejrontiac lunatic lu-natic asylum, aid from this she escaped es-caped twice within two months. Mrs. Hartsig was not a dangerous lunatic, but the family thought it best to return her to the asylum, as the physicians had hopes that they might finally restore res-tore her reason. Mrs.Hart3ig discovered what was about to take place, and on the night before her contemplated removal re-moval she escaped, and this wan the la8tseen of her by any member of her family until a week ago. 1. The day following her disappearance the body of a woman was discovered dead on the tracks of the Detroit & Michigan road twenty miles from De -troit. The body was in a mangled condition con-dition and the clothing was literally torn from the woman's form. The Hartsig family were notified and identified iden-tified the body as that of tteir mother. A Detroit dentist also idltified the gold-plated false teeth which were in the mouth of the dead woman as those sold to Mrs. Hartsig. Tbef body was taken in charge by the Hirtsigs and given a decent burial. ' Mrs. Hartsig owned proptrty in Detroit De-troit which is valued at $5,010, and her will was duly probated, and the rents of the property have Bince be?n collected collec-ted by James E. Hartsig; her husband. hus-band. . - & Mrs. Hartsig, in telling ler story to her family atter their happy reunion said she traveled by rail ;to Benton Harbor, Mich., and was takn in charge by the police on account of har Btrange actions. The authorities pHced her in a sanitarium at Benton Harbor for. twelve months and 8he waithen pronounced pro-nounced cured. But Mrs Hartsig, during her last attack of in3nity, had forgotten her name, and (there was nothing about her clothingor jewelry by which she could identiiy herself. She decided to come to CLlcago, secured se-cured a situation as nurse inj Evanston about eeven years ago anduemained in Evanston ever Bince (and has amassed a small fortune in that city. Mrs. Hartsig was reading ia newspaper newspa-per a week ago, her eon says, and happened to see the name pf E. A. Hartsig, which was the natae of her eon, Hartsig had been indiaed on the charge of forgery, Mrs. Hartsig at once became possessed of allber faculties. facul-ties. She recognized the naiae as hers and the initials as those of j her son. She went at once to the criminal court and found that E. A. Hartsig had been released on bail. She securtd his address ad-dress and went to the securitt building and walked into the office Vvhere she found her son and also her daughter, Rose, who recognized the mother immediately. im-mediately. While in the offiie another son, Lewis H., entered. 'I here was etill another person to whom the strange reappearance came Jib a surprise, sur-prise, and this was Mr. Hartsig, tha husband. He iB 50 years old, and. thinking his wife dead, had married again in Detroit. He has also one child by the second marriage and a yery complicated state of affairs exists in his household. - |