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Show COOK APPEALS FDR CCURT'SPROTECTION Loses Companions' Money in Gambling, and Says Violence Threatened. Special to The Tribune. BINGHAM. March S. Admitting that lie had lost $5S5 In a single game of seven-iip, Bob Lazich, cook of the Upper Minnie boarding house, today appealed to Judge John C. Green of Bingham for protection from fourteen infuriated Aus-trians, Aus-trians, who he said were trying to force him into peonage until he "had worked" out the money which they had Jntrusted to his care. Lazich explained that as cook of the boarding house he had had full charge of supply buying, and that he often let grocery bills run until they amounted to several hundred dollars before he collected col-lected the board money to pay them. As the boarding house was a co-operative affair, the mejnbers were individually individ-ually responsible for the bills, according to Lazich, so when the fourteen boarders board-ers learned that the cook had taken 224 they had given him, together with a borrowed bor-rowed $361, into a card game and lost It all, only immediate flight saved Lazich from violence. He was brought back from Salt Lake and Incarcerated in the hoarding house, according to the story he told Judge Green, and with many threats of having ht.s throat cut, he said, he was told that he must remain there as cook until his salary amounted to $585. Lazich escaped shortly before noon today, to-day, so he said, and sought the protection protec-tion of the judge. Investigation led to the issuance of an embezzlement complaint com-plaint against the Austrian. it being sworn to by Mike Jubirh, who had guaranteed guar-anteed the payment of the boarding house bills. Lazich is not yet in custody. |