James O'Brien finds his former wife remarried
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)
January 8, 1881
A COLORED ENOCH ARDEN CASE.---James
O'Brien, a colored man, who disappeared from
Cincinnato in 1875, leaving his wife in posses-
sion of a large house owned by him, has returned
to find his wife married to another man during
his abssnes, and the pair living in his house,
The wife supposed O'Brien to be dead, as his
valise had been returned to her, with the in-
formation that it had been found in the woods
near Washington, D.C., with a human skull
and bones lying near. The wife refuses to
recognize the newcomer, and asserts that is a
fraud. The neighbors are just as positive that
the claimant is O'Brien himself. He has not
taken any steps to recover possession of his
property or wife.
O'Brien, a colored man, who disappeared from
Cincinnato in 1875, leaving his wife in posses-
sion of a large house owned by him, has returned
to find his wife married to another man during
his abssnes, and the pair living in his house,
The wife supposed O'Brien to be dead, as his
valise had been returned to her, with the in-
formation that it had been found in the woods
near Washington, D.C., with a human skull
and bones lying near. The wife refuses to
recognize the newcomer, and asserts that is a
fraud. The neighbors are just as positive that
the claimant is O'Brien himself. He has not
taken any steps to recover possession of his
property or wife.
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