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Show Skipped With a Rich Orphan. - Butte, Mont., Dec. 28. Fred Walker, a young married man, and Ida Bradie, a 17-year-old orphan, with a fortune of $10 000, are missing, and Mrs. Walker says she has reason to believe be-lieve that they left together as sha has heard m my stories of their intimacy. Mrs. Walker has been visiting her parents at St. Joe, Mo., but received information that aroused her suspi cions and she returned to Butte today but arrived too late to meet her husband. hus-band. Walker was chief train dispatcher dis-patcher for the Montana Union during the late strike and got six months in jail for contempt of court. Rince his release he has been engaged in the news business with another ex-striker and got away with $6(10 of his partners part-ners money. Walker is also short $800 a? secretary and treasurer of the local A. R. U., which he is said to have lost playinz faro. He is an inveterate gambler. Railroad men say that Wal ker's right name is Dougherty and that he got into- some trouble several years aec on the Union Pacific in a strike in which he refused to join, and fearing harm at the hands of the strikers strik-ers he changed his name and came to Montana, fiis wife and three children are left almost destitute. |