Show IN GOLD I SNATCHED FROM RICH RANCHMAN Box Holding Small SUlaH Fortune Is Stolen From Idaho Falls Farmer n Pocatello Ida Jan Tan 8 I After ACter After listening listen listen- lug ing to a tale of ot one of or the strangest robberies ever er perpetrated in lit Idaho In 1 which a tin box containing In I I gold sold and weighing nearly thirL thirty pounds was snatched from Clarence Roc Roe wealthy ranchman of ot Idaho Idaho Falls sleuths tonight ht arc are combing ever every dive In Pocatello for Cor clues The took place In the dead of or night Roe was carrying carrying the treasure box alon along North Arthur avenue thinking thinking think think- In ing no one would suspect its contents I Suddenly a man stumbled against him Roe Roc dropped the box The stran stranger el seized It Jt and ran until he lie was nas engulfed In iii darkness j Like George Eliot's Silas Marner the I Idaho Falls farmer was frozen in Ms lIs tracks for fOI a a. time tUne at the loss ot tho the I fortune Then he uttered a shriek I which could be heard for blocks s Residents Resi I dents who responded to the tue cry en thou thought ht Roo Ron Insane when he ho declared he had hati been robbed o of in gold goll Pocatello sleuths thought they were being being- made the victims of ofa a new year eal sell and failed to grasp the the truth of oC Rocs Roc's weird stor story until daybreak when hen the tho robbed man finall finally succeeded In I furnishing full cull ull corroboration of or his mystery tale talc He lie said that all his life ho had carried large sums of oC money mone in ways so ordinary that no one ever suspected him When hen he walked down North Arthur avenue toward midnight with the gold goldin I in an ordinary tin can can an Roc floe said he felt absolutely secure Long Lons immunity from robbery robber attempts had made malle him feel leel to secure that amazement rendered ren ren- tiered dered him helpless when the money was taken taen ho said Roe floe had hall come ome to Idaho to buy a r l large e tract o of f farm rm land which has b boon on on the market It was his intention to tola tolay tolay la lay In gold old before the owner bri bright ht and earl early toda today and close a adeal adeal adeal deal for property worth twice that much The Idaho Falls farmer armel said that no noone noone noone one but himself knew that he had the mone money as 1 lo Ie e had drawn it from his bank gradually and I kept ept it secreted about his Itis home until he started out for Idaho carrying the treasure in the tin I box ox pox |