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Show FORTUNE III POCKET; THI8KSK CHAZV l Rich Evansville Man, Carrying Nearly $50,000, Flees Form Main Assassins. i i I HOOSIER IS IN CONSTANT PEAR OF HIS LIFE Requests Hotel Keeper to Send Him to a St. Louis Hospital. ST. LOUIS, Jan 7 With cash and ne-curlttes ne-curlttes In his Inside coat pocket worth In the aggregate $40,471 35 Owen McDa-vltt. McDa-vltt. a retail shoe dealer of Evansville, Ind.. called Arthur Kramer of the Burl-Ington Burl-Ington hotel. lt",2 Market street, to his room yesterday afternoon ad asked to be sent to the City hospital. "1 want to know whether I am crazy," said Mi Pa-vltt. Pa-vltt. calmly. "I fear that I am losing my Arrived on Friday. MiDavItt arrived In St. Loula Friday evening and registered at the Burlington. Me had u mall piece of baggage, but vol-iintarlly vol-iintarlly pnld for his room In advance. Yesterday morning he left the hotel for a few hours, and. returning early In the afternoon, procured In key and went to hie room, after pa ing for another day. A few mlnuteB later lie rang the office hell and Das 'lrk Samuel McKabney responded, carrying a pitcher of water to room. To him McPavItt stated his desire to Fee the proprietor Mr S L. Kramer, but on learning that the proprietor was tem-porarlly tem-porarlly absent from the house, ho con-sented con-sented to have a private talk with his son, Arthur Kramer, to whom he made the request that an ambulance be sum-inoned sum-inoned to take him to the City hospital. The latter telephoned for an ambulance and on lie arrival McDavltt was nreom-nanled nreom-nanled to the hospital by Patrolman James J. Comer. 1 Fortune in Pockets. When he was examined at the hospital It was discovered that he carried con-nlderable con-nlderable money with him and also valu-able valu-able securities. The former amounted to V07.18. ond the latter consisted of three .ertlflcates of deposits on the St Ixmls National Bank of Commerce for $16.15111. Ml. 605.36 and IMOtvSn. respectively, and one certificate of deposit on the Boat-men's Boat-men's Bank for $17,4ii 17. the four certlll-i certlll-i ate? rcpft senllng an aggregate of 149,-171.35 149,-171.35 McDavltt stated that he has lieer. rn-gaped rn-gaped in the retail shoe business at Kvansvlll for the last four years, coming there from Chattanooga. Tenn. He conversed freely about his affairs, and appeared to bo sane, except when speaking of n mysterious scheme of un-known un-known enemies to take his life He has no lda why any one should desire to put him out of the way. hut recently he has heard frequent hints and veiled ennversa-tlons. ennversa-tlons. fragmentary remarks on the street and elsewhere, to the effect that he was going to he killed. Flees From Enemies. A few days ago. he said, a customer acted strangely In Ids store after purohM Ing n pair ..f shoes, and the Incident caused him to credit the rumors of the attempt about to he made on his life It was to avoid his enemies that he left Kvansvllle, and even here he said, while talking on the street yrstenlny morning, i wo Btrftnge men ran against him wlth-out wlth-out apparent cause, and then went across i he street and stared at him In a curious 'md Insinuating manner. Asked how he onm to rarr so much valuable propertv on his person, he re-piled re-piled that he had only sufficient cash to guarantee his necessary expenses, and a to the certificates of deposit, he felt he could safely carry them, as he conslderd i hem non-negQtlnble. being me.de in his name, and he Intended to place thern with other securities In his safety deposit box n tht vault of the MlMOUrl-UtncDln Trust ..mpany He gave his age as RS years and says he in not married |