Nick Carter Stories No. 120, December 26, 1914: An uncanny revenge; or, Nick Carter and the mind murderer.Carter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 120, December 26, 1914: An uncanny revenge; or, Nick Carter and the mind murderer.
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
A few months ago a Chicago woman identified him as her missing son, Earl
Iles, and J. C. R. gained a name and a home at the cost of his quondam
fame. Bereft of his chief attributes of interest, the man and his little
tragedy dropped from sight.
The suit which his lawyers filed early this week against A. J. B.
Caldwell, whom he claims as his father, has been dismissed, but the
lawyers say this was permitted in order to get more evidence, and it
will be filed again within a few weeks.
Dispatches from Dickinson, the scene of the tangle, disclose the fact
that seventy-five residents of the town, former neighbors of the
Caldwells, identified J. C. R. as the missing son three months ago.
Caldwell reiterates his charge that J. C. R. and his Chicago backers are
conspirators, but Caldwell’s daughter has identified the man of mystery
as her brother.
Mrs. H. E. Pitkin, 895 East Oakwood Boulevard, Chicago, who identified
J. C. R. last summer as her long-lost son, Earl Iles, has disappeared
from her home.
And to complete the complexity of the enigma, J. C. R., the mute object
of the whole identity tangle, is being kept in hiding by those who are
backing his claims for $100,000 worth of North Dakota farm lands now
held by the supposed father.
Friends of the elder Caldwell alleged that it was Mrs. Pitkin’s early
knowledge of Caldwell, junior, that gave her the information on which
she satisfied the authorities with her identification of the man as her
son. They charge that it was through this information that Mrs. Pitkin
gained the custody of the man, which later resulted in the promotion of
his fight for the $100,000.
It appears that for the last couple of months the mystery man has been
in Dickinson. In the first part of that time he was busy asking
questions of old residents--or, rather, writing them, for, along with
his other afflictions, he is a mute.
The answers to the questions seemed to satisfy J. C. R. He filed suit
against Caldwell. Simultaneously papers were filed making it impossible
for Caldwell to transfer his lands in whole or in part.
Dickinson rubbed its eyes and sat up with a start when news of the suit
filtered through town. The “dummy,” who had been going up and down Main
Street with his pencil, his paper, and his ever-increasing questions
about old times, had come into the open and announced himself as no
other than Jay Allen Caldwell, old man Caldwell’s son.
No one who was willing to admit the fact knew what had happened to Jay.
He had just disappeared one day. Not a word did he send home in all the
ensuing months and years. His father, after waiting what seemed a decent
time, produced notes aggregating $70,000. The notes were signed with the
name of Jay Allen Caldwell and were drawn in favor of his father, who
went into court, got judgment, and took his son’s land in satisfaction.
Londoners Get “Zeppelin Neck”.
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