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Impostor Claimant in Melrose Will Case Is Dismissed
The court finds no credible basis for Daniel Blake Russell to be James Rousseau and rejects a vast conspiracy by Pinkerton detectives and others. Key witnesses including Whitmore Miss Robertson and Mary Arno are credited, and 48 Melrose witnesses support Rousseau's identity while 32 undermine it.
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Whitmore
Lizzie Vice
Brasher Iron Works
James Rousseau
Harriet Robertson
Traxler
Lizzie Vise
Daniel Blake Russell
Lizzie
Messina
New York
Johanna Claig
Sidney Buttrick
Melrose
Boston
Mr. Buttrick
Ignor
Ance
Buttrick
Johanna Haig
Johanna Hoag
Horace G. Whitmore
Massachusetts
Johanna Hake
Ferdinand Almy
Sarah Almy
Upton
William C. Russell
Joanna
Rousseau
North Dakota
Louis
Mary Arno
James
James B. Russell
James B. Rousseau
Malone Telegram
Danny Russell
Daniel Russell
Pinkerton
Arno
Whitman
Frank Lynde
Russel
McConnell
Baccon
Ober
Bacon
Mary Cook
Miss Robertson
St. Lawrence County
Joanna Haig
Mr. Upton
Mr. Almy
Miss Almy
Theodore H. Hayes
Edith Hayes
Mr. Hayes
Lawrence Brown
Hayes
Russells
Universalist
Melrose High School
Comer
Commercial College
Daniel B. Russell
Comer’s Commercial College
Daniel Tipe
Ange
William Rousseau
Demo
Wesley Kingsley
Lrst
Jim Rousseau
Moulton
Avery
Mulock
William Spinney
William Russell
Able Consel