Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many r Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* in the Nearby Citie* and Town* — Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Localities. RETURNS AFTER FOUR YEARS John Wyrwoz, Given Up a* Dead, Back at Former Home. Lafayette, June 22. —John Wyrwoz, who disappeared from bis home at Oxford more than four years ago, and for whom a nation-wide search was made, surprised residents of that town Sunday by reappearing as If from the grave. / Wyrwoz, who was In the plumbing business, disappeared without warning, leaving his wife and children almost penniless. He was last seen In Lafayette, but no trace of him could be found there, in the spring of 1916. The following year a skeleton was found in the Wabash river and it was thought that the bones were those of Wyrwoz. Mrs. WyiM woz decided that her husband was dead and moved to Lockport, N. Y., with her children. When he arrived at Oxford Sunday he told friends that he had left home because of domestic trouble. He said that he had spent two years in Cuba and had made up his mind never to return, but the thought of his wife and family never left his mind and that remorse finally drove him back to his former hom.e. He left Oxford Sunday. night for the east to make a search for bls family. Wyrwoz is 45 years .old.