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Show Mrs. Estella Kimmel Denies De-nies That the Man Is Her Son St. Louis. Feb 1G. Melodrama reached Its climax in tho,Klmmel trial today when Mrs. Estella' Kimmel, OS years old, and the man, apparently GO, who is put forward- by an insurance insur-ance company as her son, George A". Kimmel, stood side by side, before the jury. and when, after coniparim,' them, feature by feature, Attorney S. N. Taylor demanded: "Is that man your son?" "He 'is not my son," replied tho mother In a firm voice "My instinct and mother-love.'' she testified with ' streaming eyes, and trembling voice. ''would tell me If he (meaning the claimant) were my son, and 1 woald recognize him." "You feel absolutely sure, then," she was asked, "that he Is no .longer living?" "Yes, I am sure my son is dead " She testified that she saw the clcim-a,nL clcim-a,nL In tho Matteawan. N. Y., asylum and sho decided then that the convlot was not ber son. He was, repulsive to her, she testified, and he did not kpow people in Niles, Mich., that her son would have known. Letters written writ-ten by the claimant and by her son, v ere identified by tho witness, who declared that her son would not have wiitten the kind of letters the convict con-vict had written. The convict's words were poorly spelled and Kimmel was misspelled. On croBS-examinatlon Mrs. Kimmel testified that she would not feel morally mor-ally bound to return the insurance to J the company she received from it on . her son's life if the jdry in the present pres-ent trial found that the claimant was her son |