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Show FOXY PELLeT I s Some time lasTlTgu t a ffiail gh I, $ ing his name as Pel', tier, I , panled by his wife, whom ho cla2 I o havo recently marrlel and in S II ul tor said to bo tlio off spring by ?? II n wife, struck Salt Lake. Ho was fl follow, was Pelletier, ano ho "US II to be a postoffico inspector i n v II tl a bunch of railroad annuals that w0u 1 1 mako a director of any road turn,. II c with envy. Pelletier was a gS II S from away back. Ho took room, , i B ono of tho European hotels and Irl I 11 ceeded to get acquainted. Ho went.. 1 I Walker Bros.' store and aske f r I ll credit, saying that his remittance I ' which ho had expected, had not u 1 rived and that ho wanted " a W things for his wife and daughter" H H 0 exhibited his passes to tho maimer fl 1 but that worthv wns nni i 6. .' HI and referred him to a member of the B E Arm. The member said go ahead, and R Pollotler's wlfo and daughter ran a H juicy account. Pelletier took a ramble H ! over to Tom Dolo's saloon and ob- fl talned twenty. He wandered over to fl ' tho police station and touched Billy fl t Lynch for a sum, how much Billy will fl not say. Lynch introduced him to fl Chief Bywator of tho fire department fl and Bywater let go of $45. Pelletier fl went to Provo and handed Reed Smoot fl a bunch, and then tackled Postmaster fl Clove. Jim was too foxy for him. He fl wanted to see his commission. Pelle- fl tier said ho was not there on business, fl but just looked in. He came back to fl Salt Lake and informed Ben Heywood ifll that ho was here looking up evidence jfl against Smoot, and Bon extended to B him tho freedom of the office. How many more ho handed a mess of hot air is not known. Needless to If: ' "Trfirf not call on Postmaster say, lio d W 1 not eg h,g M ThrVt0rs in the postoffico and the 1 hea ,? o Tn oetlng mlfiht l.avo been I rnn easant. Be It known that Sharp 3 fj IcSg for Pollotlor, and expects 1 in land him very soon. I nut the funny part of the story is B4 I )hrs When Frank James was hero I with his barn-storming company of 0"'d I iZso his manager came with him r I SX manager was a man named Bill I i nor Ho was a hugo follow was s at I S i, man named Bltner; weighs 235 I un 5. Quito a good-looking fellow 't to I PTvas Bltner. But ho was a dead for I ?ngCr for VoWMar. Hp looked 1 ke n, I Mm walked like him, talked like him, dressed like him. Bywater met him few U nn the street. "How. do you do Polio-He Polio-He tL" said tho chief, "when did you , fi strike town?" "Oh, I just drifted in," '8ht- B said Dltner, as ho shook hands. By-the By-the H .atcr got busy. Ho went down to and Do0s and, accompinied by a friend n a H who wears a broad-brimmed hat and nbIe B looks like a sheriff's officer, they ob" B called on Bltner. After stating their r t0 B errand, Bitner got busy. Ho was agi-31"y agi-31"y B tated, was Bitner, and in endeavoring wl" B to explain he crossed himself several 1 to B times. That made tho boys still more ient, suspicious and notwithstanding that itler Mr Hammer Identified him as Bitner, noot H and Frank James said he was Bltner, lSter B and th0 clerl at tho Kenyon sa,d 110 IIe B Dltner, and ho had known him for elle- H j.ears and years, Bywater and Dole less, w0Ud not bo satisfied, but in- It to sstcd ho was Pelletier, until mi H Dickenson, Dolo's partner. was once H sent for. Dick looked at the man 1 to B and said ho was not it; that whilo ho B looked like Pellotier and acted like uess nm amj nii that, he was certain that s to he was not the man. Of coiupo Bit- ner hoisted several on tho strength of H it. So did tho balance. H But when Pelletier is caught ho will II bo brought back hero, and tho things D that will bo done to him in court will I ho astonishing, because Sharp is after H him and after him hard. El r, |