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Show - K5HV5 5Y A GMHER Finder of Wallet Contalninsr FJinlcsf Stocks Demands Double Reward Offered as Condition of Return.. An unusually barefaced attempt at extortion on the part of a recent visitor to Salt Lake City is related by ft well-known well-known mining man. who was Its victim. A few days ago he accidentally left a wallet containing: valuable mlnin papers pa-pers on the counter at the Wells, Fargo Express company's office. Falling to Ind the wallet when he returned, he neerted an advertisement In the local papers offering a liberal amount as reward re-ward to the finder for Its return. Nothing was heard for two or three days. At last he received a letter from Kansas City, stating that the writer had found the 'wallet in the express office of-fice here, and bad made most painstaking painsta-king efforts to locate the owner. He had been unsuccessful, but on returning to Kansas City had seen, in a newspaper newspa-per sent to him from this city, the "ad," and was now experiencing the deepest satisfaction that his labors had been rewarded and he would have the joy of returning the wallet to its rightful owner. own-er. "I will forward the wallet," the letter concluded, "immediately on receipt of ; the reward offered, plus an equal amount for the unusual difficulties and trouble I underwent in my search for the owner." ' The cool nerve of this proposal will be better understood when it Is stated that the owner's name was plainly marked on the papers taken. So the case is liable to stand for some time as one of the most striking examples exam-ples of mendacious audacity on record. |