MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8969, 7 November 1907, Page 4

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Chicago, September 18. ‘Chicago womoa liavo big feet” lias been said so long that it is regarded as a truism,. The often used taunt has, however, finally solved n mysterious case of mistaken identity. While Miss Tillio Tolau was riding in a tramway-car Mr John Klimovicz, apparently a total stranger, threw 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 Tolau was his wife, while she declared that he was mad. She was never married, she said, but was engaged to a man named Hammerstrom. At the suggestion of the police, Mr Klimoricz consented to undergo an examination ns to his sanity. The experts said that he was sane. Then the questoiu of identity was 1 referred to Judge Cleland, who for , two hours heard the testimony of the prisoner’s mother, brothers, sisters, I and neighbours, corroborated by the i testimony of Klimovicz himself, I who said he courted Miss T Man for three years, married her, au.l lived with her for four mouths. Mr Klimovicz said that his wife had a mole, and that lie was willing to go, to gaol for life if Miss Tolau had no such mark. , , Miss Tolau produced her own mother, the pastor of the church she attended, and years of records from 1 the place at which she is employed to prove that she was never the wife of Klimovicz. The mystified judge discharged the case, saying that it was too difficult for any modern Solomon. ~. , . A lady reporter established the fact that Miss Tolau had no mole, but still Mr Klimovicz was confident that the girl was his wife. The climax came to-day, when the veal Mrs Klimovicz appeared. For reasons she does not explain, she lias been living under an assumed name at Elgin. Her appearance was lue to the publication of the slighting remark of Miss Tolau, who is tot a Chicagoan, on the subject, of Mrs Klimovicz, who is. “I wish they would liud me oue of her . old shoes to try on,’’ Miss Tolau said, “That would settle my identity. I’ll wager I can put both my feet in oue of her shoos.” Tins brought the genuine wife iu auger from her retirement, but the challenge has not actually boeu accepted.