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Show AGED Mi MISSING FOR MSJS FOUND C. E. Wilbcr Brought in From Bingham Junction as Supposed Sup-posed Vagrant. The Josfc has .been found. While relatives rel-atives and officers wore tearing around, Mi fn-mer hi great anxietv, C. E. Wil-bor, Wil-bor, 79 years old and fcoblo minded, w uaa,,)oared hatless from his homo at 31 North Pirst West street about 0:o0 o'clock Tuesday evening, in the absence of thu rest of the fa mil v, reposed re-posed safely in the county jail. . -V iiber was bnu'RHt in to the couiifv .lad from Bingham .Junction Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon, about 2-i hours after his disappearance. Ho was found there wandering aimlessly about and was' classed as a vagrant. Ho had a hat but nothing is known of where he found the piece of headgear. To the sheriff's office ho gave his name and ago and said ho lives in this city but was unable un-able to tell where. The county physician physi-cian was called and examined him and snidjio is feeble minded. Tho county sheriff 's office kuew nothing of the circumstances cir-cumstances of his disappearance from thisjeily or of his having folks here at 31 North First West stroet, consequently consequent-ly wns unable to return him to his Feoplo until Snturday afternoon, when, rom the afternoon papers, tho officers learned their address. They wore notified noti-fied and the daughter, Mrs, E. A. Enos, who camo hero from Glenwood Springs, Colo., with him two or three days .before .be-fore his disappearance, went to tho jail and took tho aped man back home. The reunion was a happy one. Wilbur's folks wont away from homo for a few minutes Tuesday evoning, leaving him sleeping In the short time the' wcro nway he awakened and loft, supposodly for a walk. Tho search for him continued nearly day and night until he was found. At tho jail he was unablo to I ell uii3'thing about his wanderings, wan-derings, lie has been working as an operator in the Sau Pedro office iu the Herald block and is a vetoran of tho Civil war. |