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TRUTH IS STRANGER THftH FICTOII.
Col. W. W. Anderson Appears to Have Lived in Kansas
Long Ago Under the Name of Leeland.
The following very remarkable story is from The
Macon Telegraph of Tuesday last, but on account of
the fact that Colonel Anderson is an old citizen of
Jackson incidents here related will be doubly inter
esting to the readers of The Argus.
Colonel Anderson says the identity is correct, but
he denies having any property in Kansas. The mat=
ter is being investigated by Colonel Ed Stephens,
a grandson of Colonel Anderson, and there may be
further developments. It is the opinion of all who
know Colonel Anderson intimately that he is a very
correct man as to morals. The Telegraph’s story is
as follows :
When The Telegraph yesterday
mcrning carried into the thousands
of Georgia homes the interview with
ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas,
who spent two nights and yesterday
at the Hotel Lanier, the story about
the strange disappearance of Francis
Marion Leeland from Atchinson at
the close of the war caused many
people to go to guessing.
The story was that in 1859 a bril
liant but eccentric lawyer of 45 years,
claiming to be a bachelor from Perry,
Ga.J appeared at Atchison and opened
an office. He had means and bought
real estate, and loaned considerable
money. He soon enjoyed a lucrative
practice, as his ability was promptly
recognized by the people of that sec
tion of Kansas. At the close of the
war Leeland grieved considerably over
the result of that great conflict and
said he was going to return to Perry.
But before he made any arrange
ments to settle his affairs in Kansas,
he went up the Missouri river a short
distance to attend to some legal bus
iness in a neighboring town. The
stableman who drove him returned to
Atchison and reported that Leeland
liad been drowned while trying to
enssaferry on the thin ice. Lee
land was never heard of there again.
Plis property remains just as he left
it, except the personal effects, which
were publicly sold for rent. All be
lieved the mysterious Georgian, who
had claimed to be the descendant of
a Huguenot family recently moved to
N Georgia, was dead, and it was often
wondered why no relatives or friends
from his former home inquired about
him.
When Mr. Ingalls talked with The
Telegraph reporter at the Lanier Sun
day night he naturally asked many
questions about Perry, and incident
ally told the story of his acquaintance
with Leeland.
The reporter sought to learn some
thing about the matter from residents
of Macon who formerly lived m Perry
but none of them had ever heard the
name. A telegram was sent to the
clerk of the superior court of Hous
ton yesterday, and the reply was that
no such man had ever practiced at
that bar.
In the afternoon of yesterday sev
eral gentlemen called at The Tele
graph office and said they believed
that the story was more romantic
than the ex-senator from Kansas had
supposed, and they thought they
would be able to give the public an
interesting account of Leeland’s life
within a few days.
Among those who read the story
with avidity was Col. J. W. Preston.
As his eyes ran along the lines he
was seized with a strong suspicion
that he knew Leeland, but not by
that name. The colonel was on his
way to Jackson, Ga. He carried the
telegraph in his pocket, determined
to satisfy his mind on the subject.
At JacKson he met in the court
house Capt. \V. \V. Anderson, whom
lie had known almost continuously
from boyhood. Capt. Anderson is a
small, delicately built man of about
70 years, and is well preserved. He
is one of the ablest and most highly
esteemed lawyers in Middle Georgia.
He has been married twice, and at
one time his father was a wealthy
planter living near Hillsboro, in Jas
per county, There Capt. Anderson,
when quite a young man, wedded a
Miss Goolsby, with whom he lived
happily until her death. He became
intimately acquainted with Alex
Stephens, who taught school at
Hillsboro, and also with Ben Hill,
from whom Hillsboro took its name.
After the death of Capt. Anderson 's
first wife, who bore him a daughter,
he married again. The second mar
riage was not happy, and the couple
separated. The disappointment in
this affair unsettled the high-born
Huguenot, and although he became
restless and disconsolate, he pursued
his profession with increased energy
and determination to forget his
troubles. Suddenly he disappeared,
leaving property and everything.
Col. Preston knew him intimately, as
did several other Maconites who then
lived in that portion of Georgia. His
disappearance was just before war
was declared. When the war closed
he re-appeared and no one could ever
learn where he had been. With these
recollections on his mind Col. Preston
approached Captain Anderson yester
day and asKed him to read the Ingalls
interview in The Telegraph. Hamlet
like, Cos!. Preston then went to an
other part of the room to watch the
effect. Capt. Anderson read along
rather indifferently until he reached
the Leeland story. As if frightened
by a sudden peal of thunder, he start
ed, and his face flushed.
“Ah, lam right," thought Colonel
Preston, who pretended not to see.
But in a short time the captain’s agi
tation was too plain. Col. Preston
approached, looked him straight in
the eye, and said :
“Thou are the man, Leeland!”
Capt. Anderson jumped up and
paced the floor, rubbing his brow and
biting his lips. Suddenly he turned
and beckoned to Col. Preston to fol
low him into a more secluded place.
In an adjoining room, the captain
said :
‘“Dad burn it, I am the man.”
This “dad burn it” has been a life
long expression of Capt. Anderson,
and when Col. Preston returned to
Macon last night and reporti and to Mr.
Ingalls a detailed account of the dis
covery of Francis Marion Leeland,
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living and still mysterious but brill
iant, no additional proof was needed
that Leeland and Capt. Anderson
were one and the same.
“Why,” exclaimed Mr. Ingalls, “I
can just see Leeland in the very act
of making that ejaculation. It was
a great favorite with him, and all who
knew him in Kansas will readily re
call it.”
“But.” said Mr. Ingalls, when the
Telegraph man called on him after
supper last night, “I had no idea
that Leeland was living. I had al
ways suspected that he had been the
victim of foul play on account of the
large roll of money that he was ac
customed to carrying about his per
son at all times. I simply mentioned
his name to you to show that I knew
something of Georgia and Georgians,
Leeland had a wonderful fund of in-
formation, and could tell excellent
! stories about his state. I remember
one night he and I were in a parlor
at the home of a young lady whom
he visited with a fatherly kind of in
terest. Several other people were
present, and there was some formulity
among the group just at the moment.
Leeland sat down on a big puffy
lounge to which he was not accus
tomed, and it sank with him so sud
denly and so completely that his head
went down and his heels went straight
up. Of course, everybody roared.
In a few seconds he was on his feet
again, and was enjoying the fun as
much as any of them. This illustrates
what a companionable kind of man
he was and all of our people were fond
ol him, and his sudden disappearance
which was as complete as if the earth
had swallowed him, caused much
sorrow in the community. He was a
man of keen sensibilities, and showed
many admirable traits of character.
We wouid perhaps never have heard
of him again but for the casual men
tion I made of the matter to you on
Sunday night. I certainly hope that
I can see him when I pase through
his town tomorrow morning on my
way to Atlanta. I shall look anx
iously from the platform as I pass
through, for I would know him with
perfect ease if I should ever see him
again.”
“lam going to use all of those
facts,” said the reporter.
“Of course, it is a fine story,”
said Mr. Ingalls, “and it furnishes a
subject on which one can write a
book; I wouldn’t blame you for us
ing it, even if you have to rush with
it for the morning paper : you could
not do it justice in the short space
of time between now and when your
paper will come out, but use your
judgment about that; I know the
pressure that forces morning news
paper men to prepare their copy
quickly. I realize that but for you
I would never have known anything
about this last chapter of Leeland or
Anderson’s life and I am anxioug to
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