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Show ISAD STDRY IS TOLD I! 1F0MITE Ml Frank Smith, Charged .With Malicious Mischief, Gains Much Sympathy. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN". June 30. After an official examination ex-amination as to his sanity, it has been determined that Frank Smith, the apod man who threw a stone through the plate Klass window at the Orog6n Short Line ticket office a few nightH ago. must stand trial for the offense in tho municipal court. The board of medical examiners could find no 'reason for declaring the old man Insane. Smith's explanation to tho police since hie arrest is pathetic. After spending tho greater part of hit? long life In a mail Oregon town. Smith decided to locate lo-cate In a small cltv and had turned his attention toward Cheyenne, TVyo. During Dur-ing his residence In Oregon he had conducted con-ducted a small blacksmith shop, which, with years of hard work, had netted him With this money In his possession he started out for Cheyenne, . but made the serious mistake of attempting the trip by easy stages via freight trains over the Oregon Short Line. It was at Glenns Ferry, Ida., according to his sforv: that he met two men who claimed to be brakemen In the employ of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Lino company. On the representation rep-resentation that they would carry him as far as their division extended, they placed the old man In a box car, but the train had proceeded but a few miles out of the town when they robbed him and threw him out of the car. Making his wav back to Glenns Ferry on foot, Smith attempted to tell of his loss to an officer, said to be a constahlo. but he refused to believe the old man s story, warning him to got out of town before he was arrested for vagrancy. Thin disgusted Smith to such an extent that ho made no further effort to bring his nssallants to justice. That was in 1311. Since then, he says, hi has wandered from place to place, securing se-curing brief Jobs as a blacksmith and brooding over his loss until his altitude on the one subject only assumed the proportions of a mania. Firmly believing that the robbers were employees of the Oregon Short Line railroad, his Growing resentment of Ills treatment has been against the company. According to a. special agent of the Oregon Short Line, It is not probable that the railroad company will push the case against the old man. Tho police, and also tho railroad officials, are reasonably certain that Smith was robbed by tramps who represented themselves as trainmen. |