Missing Seven Years

MISSING SEVEN YEARS

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And Judge Newkirk is Asked to Call

Him Legally Dead

An unusual paper was filed in the

Probate court Wednesday. It consisted of

a petition to have L. Gruner, of Ann

Arbor, appointed administrator of the

estate of Joseph Wetzel who disap-

peared August 19, 1890. The estate

consists of about $400 interest in the

old Wetzel homestead, corner of Lib-

erty and S. First st. The heirs at law

Robert M. Christian F.  and Theodore

A. Wetzel. The law considers a man

dead after he has disappeared seven

years. All of the parties are very

well known in Ann Arbor being sons

of the late Christian Wetzel. This is

the second case of the kind that has

come up before Judge Newkirk.