Show DELEGATES ROLLED SOBTHKRX UTAH IPUJ i 3IOXEY LEFT IN1 THE dPI One Delegate From Sevier County Robbed of Ills Cash uncl n Valuable Val-uable IVntcli One Front Beaver County Loses 124tdi5Cd toGo to-Go Home Chief of Police Pratt says that he has had more fun out of the late Republican can territorial convention than any one man in Utah not barring Charles Crane Yesterday two of the chiefs oldtime friends called upon him and Informed him that they might s well confess their plight first as lar and try and recover their property Both were delegates to the territorial convention con-vention last Wednesday and both were rolled by bunco men for all their valuables One delegate hailing from Sevier k whose name is suppressed because he implored In the name of heaven dont give i to the papers Mr Pratt f for it would simply ruin me in my county and I would be a butt for jibes and jests all my life He then went on to tell Chief Pratt that he got out with the Boys after the convention adjourned and painted things in sev ierer tones than ever known in Sevier and finally the colors ran together and formed an opaque daub through whIch he could not see and then all was chaos in an abyss of oblivion until he was awakened by the switch engine in the Rio Grande depot yards the rext morning His head was > large ry large but otherwise he was flat b 4 Some person or persons had 5 ly filled him up and then robbed h f every cent he had and a flne 4d watch worth 150 He didnt dare go home without the watch and besides he wanted to borrow enough money to get home watch or no watch This the chief thought was amusing and he joshed his old Sevier friend and assured him of the money but > would not guarantee the watch W P Smith Robbed of 1225 While Chief Pratt and the Sevier delegate were exchanging reflections on the wiles of the Salt Lake bunco man Delegate W P Smith of Beaver county another lifelong friend of Mr Pratt frankly stated that he had stayed in town a little longer than his convention duties had required and that while indulging in too much nut brown ale two newmade friends rolled him for one 1000 bill eleven 20 bills and one 5 bill with all of which they had decamped after lee ng him at the Knutsford hotel and tefn ° him that they would see him later This was at 5 oclock Friday afternoon since which time they have not seen him later The 1000 bill Smith had brought from home to get changed The thieves who robbed him in a saloon left Smith with 21d on his per son showing that they were pretty cute Chief Pratt advised both his friends to say nothing to any person in the city but to go home and saw wood |