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Show LURED FROM HOME, i Wealthy New Haven Man Sandbagged, Sand-bagged, Hobbed, Thrown on Track. EAST HAVEN, Conn,. Nov. 155. Lying gagged and In an unconscious condition -oirtha track of the Consolidated Railway Rail-way company, Henry Curtiss president of the Connecticut Tidewater Trap Hock company, escaped instant death tonight by tho quick stopping of the car which was running slowly Mr. jCurtlss was lured from his homo by a fake telegram purporting to come from ono of tho officials of the company, com-pany, making an appointment for 10 o'clock nt the offlro of tho comoany, and while- en route was sandhaggod. II o was robbed of about $100, which ho had in his overcoat pocket. The office of the Connecticut Tidewater Tide-water Trap Rock company was burned to the ground about nn hour before Curtiss Cur-tiss was found. As a result of a blow on the head Curtiss Cur-tiss is now in a dangerous condition. |