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Show t I SAYS HI WAS i "BIAT-UP" AND ROBBED OF $50 H - J 1 (i W . The officers picked, up Bert Ben- L-S sob about wMalsfet WedHeeday, who "W clalmcd.he M,):roA'iiA naaU . oBup'riier-.ray-Lb'w.1 M Earl of Lht brought, tho man ta from tho cast part of- town after ho had H asked Mr. Karl to direct him to a H physician. Ho was taken to tho city br.ll whore Dr. P. M. Kolley aa- mlnlctorrd attention. It was found H that ho had a sovoro gash on the top , H of hla head which required sovoral, stitches. His faco was sovoroly H bruised as woro also his limbo, Tho -l lace of hla shoos appoarod to havo 'P teen cut out 'V Ho cays that his homo Is In Fort H Collins, Colo, nnd that ho had been, H working for Henry , Williamson of M Provo slnco March. Having complet- M cd his work, he received $60 and do- B elded to go to Salt Lake. Ho statss B that ho bought a lunch at Provo and M a ticket and boarded tho D. and R.1 H O. passengor train, loavlng, thoro H about 3:30. Ho says ho romombora H tho train stoppcM noar tho Lalto Vlow H toot dump nnd that Is all. The noxt H thing ho soya ho remembers was that H a brakoman on a Salt Lako Route B freight train told him to got up and H find some niodlcal M( or ho would H "cash In". Ho says ho was wrapped H In a quilt and nn old overcoat that H ho had novor seen b'eforo and also H robbed of all his monoy. Ho was weak Hv from tho loss of bipod and still doacd Hni when taken to tho City hall. H Ho appeared to bo unablo to nc- H count for the a'pcldent nsldo from H tho holler thnt ho had boon robbed H and beaten and declared ho was not H "Seating" hla way and could not have B fallen from a moving train. |