Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE LUELLA MABBITT [ARTICLE]

WOMAN CLAIMING TO BE LUELLA MABBITT

Accosted Carroll County Man at Railway Station In Logansport—An Old Tragedy Recalled. Monticello Journal. A- week ago yesterday, says the Logansport Journal-Tribune, Hezekiah Shank, of Gamden, was in Logansport, and declares that he wafe at the Pennsylvania station, when a woman approached him and addressed him by his full name, said she was glad to see him. “That’s my name,” said Shank, “but you have the best of me. I don’t know you.” “You ought to,” replied the woman. Don’t you remember Luella Mabbitt?” “Yes, but that was 30 years ago, and I might not know her now,” said Shank. “Well, I am Luella Mabbitt,” continued the stranger. “And now I am on my way to New York, where I live.” At this juncture in the conversation, says Shank, a train approached and as it did so, the woman replied, “This is my train,” and left him without another word. When asked about the report last night Shank repeated his odd story of the accidental meeting. He says he could not identify tMNjroman who accosted him as bearing any resemblance to Luella Mabbitt. Old residents of the county will .recall the tragedy in which Luella Mabbitt was supposed to have been murdered by Amer Green and for which alleged crime he paid the penalty at the hands of a mob which took him from the Delphi jail after his capture.