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# KIMMEL CASE WILL # OPEN NEXT TUESDAY NEW TESTIMONY TO BE INTRO- DUCED LIKEL YTO PROVE IMPORTANT. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 1.—Attorneys for both sides are busy at work preparing for the trial of the famous Kimmel case, which is set to begin in the United States court in this city next Tuesday. The trial is expected to at- tract wide attention on account of the many strange features that the case presents. The case to be tried is the suit brought by the receiver of the Farm- ers' State Bank of Arkansas City, Kas., against a New York insurance compa- ny to recover the amount of an insur- ance policy held by George A. Kim- mel, who was cashier of the bank at the time of his mysterious disappear- ance in 1898 and was heavily indebted to the institution. The whole case hinges on the question of whether Kimmel is living or dead. This will be the third time that the suit has been tried. At the first trial a verdict for $8,000 was returned in favor of the plaintiff, but it was reversed by the court of appeals. On the second trial the jury disagreed. New Witness Secured. The insurance company claims a man known as Andrew J. White is in reality the missing Kimmel. When first discovered this man was serving a term at the Matteawan Asyları for the Criminal Insane. At that time he gave a number of startling facts about himself purporting to prove that he was Kimmel and upon his release from prison a year or so ago he went to Niles, Mich., where Kimmel was born and raised and endeavored to establish his identity as the missing man. Many old-time residents of Niles deciored that the man was the George A. Kim- met whom they had known intimate- ly. On the other hand, Mrs. Julia E Kimmel, the mother, and Mrs. Edra K. Bonslett, the sister, after studying the ex-onvict carefully, denounced the man as an imposter. At the approaching trial the attor- neys for the receiver of the Arkansas City bank will seek to disprove the claim of the insurance company that White and Kimmel are one and the same man by the testimony of wit- nesses who knew Kimmel and by the statement of John Boone Swinney, a New Mexico ranchman, who declares he saw Kimmel killed in an Oregon forest, August 14. 1898, which was a few weeks after he disappeared from a hotel in Kansas City.
