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Show SAYS NEW "FRIENDS" TOOK HIS MONEY Roy Branbaugh of Aberdeen, Wash., says he wa-s lured into an alley near Exchange Place last night and robbed of nls watch and $4 in cash. According to the story told by Branbaugh, lie is a stranger in the- city and having gone to a show laat night could not find his way to the New Grand hotel, where ho was stopping. He met two men who seemed quite friendly and' offered to show him the way home- After he had bought drinks for his new frlouds, they started home. Branbaugh said that ho did not know whero they wero talcing him to until they turned down an alley off. Exchange Ex-change Place. Tho men immediately fell upon .him and knocked him down. After giving him a severe beating thev robbed him of his valuable: and departed. He was unable to give a description of the men. |