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Show oo . PII77I FO I vLLLLu Mrs. Kimmel StHI in Doubt as io Identity .jdf Jlcr Son Nlles, Mich., Sept, 21. Only moro puzzling circumstances resulted today from a conference which Mrs. Estella Kimmel had with the man who represented rep-resented himself to be George A. Klm-mol, Klm-mol, her son, who Mrs. Kimmel says died years ago. After carefully questioning the man, the aged woman said she was as much In doubt as ever. The newcomer's hands and facial expressions were not only not like those of her son, but were radically different, she said. Yet, she could not account for many early Incidents In Nilcs which he recounted. The fact that Kimmel has just secured se-cured his liberty after being confined for five years in the penitentiary at Auburn, N. Y., Mrs. Kimmel thinks, may account for his poor memory In other dotalls. "But," she added, "we cannot let that cover up all tho defects In his claim that he Is my son I don't see tho slightest resemblance and while he remembers lots of things about NUes still ho Is deficient in trying to recall exact details of the family history. His physical char- (Continued on Pago Seven.) oo v MOTHER IS PUZZLED (Continued from Pace One.) acteristics are all opposed to his, claims. I am anxious -to recognize i him if ho is my son, but I regard I It as essential " to protect myself I against imposture' People .Jn Arkansas City and St. Louis, where Mrs. Kimmcl's son lived I aftr leaving .Niles, sent her telegrams tele-grams and letters today advising her not to accept "Klmmol" as her son. HE IS NOT KIMMEL Kansas City, Sept. 21. A special to tho Star from Niles, Mich., says. Andrew J. Hunt of Arkansas City, Kan , met today tho man who says he is George Kimmel. After an interview inter-view of a half hour, Mr. Hunt declared positively thatthe man was not Kimmel. Kim-mel. Mr Hunt had known Kimmel for years before the latter disappeared. Kimmel boarded at Hunt's home in Omaha for a year. In Arkansas City, Hunt and Kimmel were intimate friends. "Do you Itnow who I am," asked' Hunt today." Tho man stopped closer and looked into his face "No," ho said. "I don't know you "I'm Andy Hunt," said the man from Kansas. "No, you arc not," replied tho man "I am." "Is that so7 Well, you have changed " "Not a bit; I look Just as I always did." "Do you know my wife's name?" "It's Mayono," Hunt shook his head. "It's" Margie," he said. "You ought to remember .that, because be-cause you were as familiar with it as you were -with the names of your mother and sister." "What's tho name of m- little girl?" asked Hunt "I don't remember." "You ought to recall that, you taught her the first words she ever spoko Intelligently." ' "1 can't recall It." 'Kimmel" answered corroctlv some answers regarding the life of the two families In Omaha and Arkansas CIt, but his memory was faulty when other oth-er queries were put. |