Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1881 — Found After Three Years. [ARTICLE]

Found After Three Years.

Everett (Penn.) Frees. . * Lieutenant C. W. Mann, an officer of cavalry in the late civil war, and attached to one of the Maryland regiments, and brother of the Rev. J. B. Mann, of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, who so mysteriously disappeared from his home iu Martinsburg, West Virginia, some time over three years ago, turned up and was recognized by a cousin of nis in this place, one day last week, to the meat joy of his family and a large circle of friends, by whom he was greatly biloved. The Lieutenant is mat ried to a most estimable lddy, had a very comfortable home, was in a good position on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and was to all appearanoes prosperous and happy. At the time of his

leaving, his brother, then pastor of the United Methodist Episcopal Church, iu Wilmington, spent several weeks in searching for him through the mountains of Virginia and Maryland, and the larger towns and cities of those States, but failed to find a single trace of the lost one. The police ana detective agencies were at times assisting, but all to no purpose, and the wife of the missing man, with a breaking heart, came sadly to the conclusion that her husband had met with violence or accident resulting in the lose of his life. His toother always believed that he would one day return to his home, and sought to comfort his sister-ln -law with this hope, which at last, in the Providence of God, has grown Into full fruition. At first the Lieu *enant den lea his idenity, but his brother coming on immediately recognized him, and telegraphed to his wife, who reached here on Saturday morning, and is now among the happiest spirits we have met for many a day. Mr. J. E. Hedding, a clerk of Mr. J. B. Williams A Co., who first recognized Lieutenant Mann, and never rested until the wanderer was restored to bis family and friends, hasdone that which, should forever brighten the memory of his life, and is receiving the warmest congratulations of the family and friends. There was no apparent motive for the strange conduct of the Lieutenant, as he was an, almost universal favorite in the' community where he lived, and was devotedly attached to his wife and family.