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Show HAUNTED YEARS; VICTIM IS ALIVE Missourian Meets Man Ho Thought He Had Killed in Quarrel 14 Years Ago. LIVES IN PERPETUAL TERROR Map Fall From Train During Fight Which Resulted From Disagree-I Disagree-I ment Over Die Game and' An- tagonltt Thought Him Dead. Kansas City, Mo. Iteuben K. Hall of Paris, Mo., met face to face In u Ienver (Colo.) street n man whom he thought he had killed 14 years ago and the memory of whose alleged 'lentil had haunted lilm all tlie.se years. A letter tolling of the remarkable case came from lcner to I. II. Mintzer, manager of the Tool Speclull.N company. II was from Shalzvr'it hall brother. Iteuben K. Hall. Hall, a young farmer near runs. Mo., went to the Kansas harvest HeliN to work In 1007. He disappeared. The letier received by Mr. Shatter was '.signed with a strange name, Harry K. Thomas. It contained this story of the disappearance of the new name: In Perpetual Torment, Kor 14 years Hall, under the name of Harry K. Thomas of Denver, has. iuake"d at the slRht of a police olllcer. He has avoided all persons he knew when he was Hall. He has spent wakeful wake-ful nights, fearing arrest for murder. A wife and then a child served to add to his anxieties. What, If they should discover he had killed a mini? Hut the worry Is over. Thomas was walking recently on a Denver street, lie met the man for whose murder he lielli'vcil lie was hunted, the letter slates. The two recognized each other at the siime time. The "murdered" man held out his hand in greeting. "I ihought 1 killed you," Tho'iias gasped. !. "Land, no." the "lctlm," replied. "I was only liruised a little." ' In the 1 1 years slhre'lUs disappear mice Hall's family has mourned him as dead. Relatives after a diligent search, took steps to collect his Insurance, Insur-ance, but lncklng proof of death, were unable to do so. Of what happened nfter Hall, with Si 7." In wages, left the harvest fields , the letter has this to say: "I got Into a dice game. I won ?"."(). One of tin heavy losers was .lohn Williamson. Wil-liamson. He and I fought oer the game, then patched up our differences. Friendly, wo climbed Into u box car to go to Kansas City. We quarrcllp-1 again, fought, and Williamson fell from the train In the light. Not Guilty of Murdep "The next day I read In a paper that the body of atr unidentified man had been found on the railroad right of way. I was not guilty of murder hut to prove it was a different thing Others hnd seen us quarrel. "I went West, changed my name to Thomas and grew up with tho country Finally I settled In Denver, was mar rled and now have a daughter six years old. "You cannot Imagine the relief now Williamson went home with me, ami we told my wife and daughter. 1 am the happiest man In the country. We are coming to see you and all the resi of the folks right away. I can harilh wall." |