JUDGE'S DILEMMA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 41, 12 November 1907, Page 3

JUDGE'S DILEMMA.

."Chicago women have big feet" lias been .said so long that it is'rcgardcd as a truism. J® ° ftcil used taunt has, howover, finally so vcd ,v mysterious caso in that city of mistaken identity. liilo .Miss Tillio Tolan was riding in a tramway car Mr. John Klimovicz, apparently a total stranger, throw his arms about her, exclaiming, "Oh, my long-lost wife, why did you leave me?" The man was arrested for disorderly conduct, but insisted that Miss Tolan was his wife, whilo she declared that lie was mad Sho was licvor married, she said, but was engaged to a man named Hammerstrom. At the suggestion of tho police, Mr. Klimovicz consented to undergo an examination as to his sanity. The experts said that he was sane. Then the question of identity was referred to. Judge Cleland, who for two hours heard tho testimony of tho prisoner's mother, brothers, sisters, and neighbours, corroborated by the testimony of lChmovicz himself, who said ho courted Miss Tolan for threo years, married her, and lived with her for four months. Mr. Klimovicz said that his wife had a mole, and that he was willing to go to gaol for life if Miss Tolan had 110 such mark. Miss Tolan produced her own mother, the pastor of tho church she attended, and years of records from the place at which she is employed to prove that , she was never the wifo of Klimovicz. • The mystified judge discharged'tho case, saying that it was toodifficult for/ any modern Solomon. A lady reporter established tho fact that Miss Tolan liad 110 mole, but still Mr. Klimovicz was' confident that tho girl was his wifo. ' Tlio climax came when tho real Mrs. Klimovicz appeared. ) For reasons sho does not explain, she 'has been living under an assumed name at Elgin. Her appearance was due to the publication of the slighting remark of Miss Tolan, who is not a Ghicagoan, on tho subject of Mr p. Klimovicz, who is. "I wish they would find mo 0110 of her old shoes to try 011,".Miss Tolan said; "that would settle my. identity. . I'll wager I can put both my foot, in 0110 of her shoes." This; the genuino wife in anger from her retirement, but the .challenge has not actually been accepted.