Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 36
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, September 25, 1907
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SAYS HE IS BROTHER OF WALDROP
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Charles Wolf of Crosby,
Harris county, is here for the purpose of identifying, or satisfying himself as
to the identity of the man, who died at the Laxson boarding house three weeks
ago and who gave his name as Waldrop.
From his investigation, so far, he says
that he is quite sure that Waldrop is none other than his brother whom he
had not seen since 1902.
He says that in March of that year, his
brother left him in South Texas to go to New Mexico and that he last heard from
him there. That when he left for New Mexico he had the sum of $2280 which
he carried in his hip pocket, fastened with a safety pin, says that his brother
always had considerable money on his person but that he was a man who never
discussed his financial matters with anyone except close relatives.
He explains his brother's assumed name by
saying that his brother had some small trouble with a fellow workman while on a
railroad construction gang in Limestone county and that he took on the name of
Waldrop to avoid arrest as he did not believe that he ought to pay the fine.
Mr. Wolf is accompanied by Dr. Clark of
Kosse, who treated Waldrop while he was sick at that place a short time before
he came to Marlin.
Mr. Wolf says that his brother had traveled
a great deal, having been in every state and territory and that the old is in
Sullivan county, Mo.
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