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Show PL AUSI3EE-STRANGER : STOLE LIFE'S SAVINGS Rested James Bcrrcsiord in England and Fcrced nini v to Leave - Children to . Hunt for York.- ' NEW TORK. Nov. 17. Less than two. months ato James Berresford of Colum-bus, Colum-bus, O., with his wife and three children. sailed a the lUuntr Cftdric for Liverpool. Liver-pool. They were goipg back to the old country to sat tie down, buy a home and enjoy the fruits of seventeen years' hard labor. With nearly 000 In hla pockets "he saw his life's dream about to be real- iaed.. But in the few weeks ot his going j and coming Berreeford's little fortune has been swept away. He was the victim of a sUek steamship crook. . . . "I came to this country with my wife seventeen years ago." relates Berreaford. 'We settled in olumbus. O., where with a bit of money we started a dairy. The business prospered, last September oar little savings had grows to IMGO. We came to New York, where 1 got a draft on a London bank for 900 and kept the remainder la cash. ' "Not many days out on the Cedrle I met an affable stranger, well dressed and about M years old. He said his name was W. Roberta, and that he was ht the crockery business. I confided ray desire to buy a home. He said he knew of Just the property -1 wanted and would take me to the owner In Liverpool. I agreed to accompany the man. 'Leaving my wife In Liverpool, I went with 'Roberts' to the outskirts of the city. It was too late to see the man when .we arrived, ne said, and suggested stopping stop-ping at- his hotel until morning. We sat and talked Jn his room, when I became drowsy and said I'd go - to bed. He remarked re-marked that -he was going out for a few momenta. When he had left I found my aallet gone. 1 It contained everything I possessed. "I ran out "and told the first 'bobby' I met. The search led to London and to the, place where the 'draft had been cashed just three minute after 'Roberts' had been there." , Berresford was obliged to leave his children chil-dren in a charitable Institution while he and his wife returned to New York to continue the search. Berresford .reached New York on the Baltic a few' days ago. but despite his tireless endeavors to find work, has been unsuccessful, and the couple have been Subsisting on what Mrs. Berresford can make at odd Jobs of scrubbing. |