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Show GOT $800 CHECK F08 $20 IN CASH Young Cncho County Man Is JVIndo tho Victim of Two Smooth Sharks Ln Zion. . ""-"TO JOHN S PACKMAN, a young man inout 20 years1 old, on the wu7 to hla home at Richmond, Cache coun-.y, coun-.y, after having: been working for several inonthH at Callentes, was yesterday yes-terday buncoed out of 520 in this city on the old check game. While waiting at the Rio Grande depot for his train he fell In with a very agTceablo man who was going on tho same tran and who finally suggested that as they had a lonjj time to wait they might saunter up town. Spackman consented. On the way thoy met a buslnesa-llko follow who stopped Spackman's friend and told him that his goodn were fixed up al right and that It wmUd bo neceBBary to pay the J20 at once. Tho friend, after fumbling in his pockets for a time, found that ho had only a check for JSOO. Could the buslneas-llko man cash it? No, ho couldn't; but perhaps tho friend's friend could accommodate him. Spackman wafl sorry, but he didn't have nearly that much money. Then couldn't he lend him the 520 for the time bolng and take tho $800 check as security? The friend would have to go up the street Just a block or two with the man to sign up the papers, and lie, Spackman, Spack-man, could return to tho depot and wait there until he, the friend, should return. Spackman handed over the $20, took tho big chock and, feeling' that the trust Imposed In him, was wonderful. Indeed, went back to tho depot and waited. Ho waited fivo long, weary hours nnd then something began to dawn upon him. He reported it at police hoadquarters. Tho villains at last accounts were still at largo, |