Show WHY IS DAWSON I UNDER ER mm Some Mystery Surrounds Case Peculiar Circumstances Are Noted Something of a mystery surrounds the case of A Dawson Dawsen who was Vas taken Into custody at police poUce head headquarters quarters at an early earl hour yesterday este ay on en complaint of George L U Gardner Dawson is still sUit confined in the J jail il tl but without any charge against ag ln t him nor do the police know what he is really wanted for nor who If anybody is to coming after him nor when The only thing that is known is that Gardner said that Dawson four foul years ago in New Orleans used u cd his name to secure 60 10 O from the elder Gard Gardner Gardner ner ncr Yesterday Gardner left the city without so far as can be learned loomed giving giving ing any information as to where he was going or what he Intended to do in the I case of Dawson I Dawson Is presumed to have hate ha e prominent neat nent relatives In Reno neno Nev and a It tel was sent by him yesterday morning to a Mr Dawson at Reno R no that he was waa in serious trouble and asking that be forwarded to him in care of the chief of police He lIe did not ex cx explain plain why wh he needed Gardner had said ald he ht had obtained only 50 0 Chief of Police Pollee Barlow stated last night he had heard nothing in regard to the l so 80 I presumably the money mone has bas not een Iten forthcoming yet yetTo yetTo et etTo To a reporter W IV V L Gardner who states that he is at present Identified with lumbering Interests in the state of Washington shortly after the detention detention detention tion of Dawson related the relations that had hI h existed between the two lo Gardners Story Some YOOn years ago I 1 was wall sportily in inclined Inclined dined and followed the races While down at El EI Paso I met Dawson Davson I 1 found him him hll 1 to be pretty smooth and one of the tho biggest liars I ever fell in with but his stories of what he had hail done dont w re amusing even if stretched and in ina Ina Ina a way I took a liking to him and cared for him When I went to New Orleans I I 1 took him along alon and found him useful I He never had a cent of ot his own 10 o oI I took him into my room and fed him One time I was waa practically broke only had 30 lO cents but was expecting at least 00 that day from rom my father a wealthy lumberman of Minneapolis I asked Dawson if he had any money and he said no so 50 we went out and had break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast on the 30 O 0 cents promising ourselves a real dinner when the money came caine When I 1 went ba lt to the room that forenoon I 1 found him there eating can candy candy candy dy and I asked him where he SlOt got the money He Ho said he had borrowed 25 cents from a friend but hut I know he ho was tra n 00 n n lying so I kicked him out of the room I Then he ho turned his trick as I found out afterward While I 1 was keeping I him lie had been opening my letters and one day when I was out of ot town he telegraphed my father asking him to Wire 50 quick signing It George As AsI I was continually getting money father Cather thought nothing of the request and sent It on Dawson called at the telegraph office and showing some of the letters that he had stolen Identified himself as George Gardner Although I have crossed the conti continent continent nent repeatedly and always kept hept my eye open for him I never nevor caught sight of him until last night when with my wife I walked Into the Wilson hotel hetel upon upon our arrival from Denver Dawson was sitting in the lobby and when I spoke to him he at first pretended not notto notto notto to recognize ma nia but later saw aw he be could not get out of or it Dawson who according to his own story has had a wild and varied career living at different times under the names of Ringling Coin Dawson and others has been stopping slopping at the Wilson lson for the past three weeks coming here presumably da daHe He admitted that he had obtained the theno no 50 In much the manner told by b Gard nard Gardner ner ncr but said it was a matter mutter of life lite or death to a woman Dawson claims to be bp a professional bicycle trick rider as fis s well as a i 1 lacer iscer I c r rand and asserts that under of Vo Volan Volan lan Ian he introduced the traveling with Barnum Bailey |