RIDLEN, Cumberland - Putnam

Ladoga, Ind May 12 – Relatives here have been notified that the body of the man which was recovered shortly after the flood from a stream near Delphi is positively not that of Cumberland C. Ridlen who disappeared so mysteriously from Indianapolis last March.  Relatives had made an examination of the Delphi body several days ago and decided that it was not that of Cumberland Ridlen. As no one else came to claim the body at Delphi and as there was a strong similarity in the appearance of the Delphi body and that of Ridlen it was decided last week that Ridlen’s dentist at Indianapolis and Charley Ridlen, a brother of the absent Indianapolis man went to Delphi on Saturday to see if the body was that of the missing Indianapolis man. The dentist had a chart of the repairs he had done on the teeth of Cumberland C. Ridlen.  Using this he made the examination and now declares positively that the dead man at Delphi is not the missing Indianapolis man. – kbz

Note: Cumberland must have returned as he served in WWI (born June 29, 1884 died Oct 25, 1963) – married to Louisa Miller (1899-1976) – not sure about children but besides brother Charley he had a sister Jemima and two other brothers, Russell and Stephen.