Show Olin OLD MAN ROBBED OF ALL HE HAD HADice f ice ivice in Two W Weeks Was V as James James- Jones' Jones Room Burglarized INE li OLD VIOLIN TAKEN Police Were cre Notified hilt but Could 1 Do 10 0 Nothing They Said c cIt It Was v s 's u ua a dingy o Itile tack back room I In iii ti tho thord rd Ill r rooming o house house- on on nast Second Secondi i i street sits sits James James Jones aged 70 J t t d ci of everything he owned On 9 his room was broken Into C SG bd stolen Friday night the tho th thief thier e v ie se back and took tool away uway the old i. i lis Jl'S s violin valued b by sports at at a n thousand dollars and other oIlier articles of or considerable worth Sinco SInco he lie ha hat has notified the police of the last robbery r tho the aged ased man sits alone alono In tn his room hurt beyond help The story that he luc told tho the police after the last robbery invites the sympathy sym sym- pathy path as It reveals the thc mans man's present helplessness s He came caine to this cit city several months ago from Crom Butte Dutte Mon Ion tana In that city ho sold herbs and roots loots to the he sick and made a com comfortable coni- coni living Ivins When he came caine here hero he ho rented a room in the tho house on Second South street and amid en engaged engaged en- en In the same business On Ott the tho ninth of or this month William Featheroff Feather- Feather off and his wife trite came to s see ce him lIe He had known them In Butte Butlo and learned after coming here that the thc they were conducting a small bakery bakel on omu South Temple street near neat the Oregon Short Line depot When they visited him In his room he agreed In response e eto to their Invitation In to take dinner r with them in their home house that day When he returned to his ro room m In the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon he discovered that It had booms been entered through tho rear roar window Th The robber had gorse gone through a lavatory la to the Ule rear of th the house stepped out outon outon outon on th the tho roof root and entered the room through the window The trunk lock had been unscrewed and an Iron box which had b been cn riveted ll to the bottom of ot the tho trunk torn loose and arid tatton away In It were the savings of man many weck weeks six eighty dollars In sill nIl v ot in on i- i JC o 0 f r Jones t went ent to pollee ol ar po arfA fA i. i Immediately and the thea v O 11 0 if tl J I. I ua 4 Sund lI to n. n a warrant When hen Monday came the tho possibilities of catching the thief ha had greatly diminished and ln the o If n accomplished nothing Business hadnot hudI hud had hudnot not beets been very ory Iy good with the old man I nn and l he heas was as sorel sorely pressed fd for CUI um monc money The one tangible asset he Iw could quickly ly use to raise money W was 8 his lold old violin Over O thirty years ears ago ho lie hoj j purchased the Instrument Those who know said it was os a genuine genuino Strad I A dealer In violins hearing healing of ot the lie old oldmans oldmans mans man's plight pUsh t offered him 00 for Cor or Ithen It I When hen he tat sat down to tu think the matter lover over ho he tucked ed the valued treasure under his chin and drew from roan it with the tho bow an time old-time melody No I can not part PaIt with It It he hue raid as he concluded tho the a air h. h not hot now tiow I reail really could not boat bear to do It It That fiddle has b been en with me since rn c I Iwas Iwas was a young man and able to work worl I II I II I have ha never gone gono tt tf to sleep yet In all aU these thee years that I ha have 0 not had It U in lit my usty room and had a t. little talk with U t before I went treat to bed Second Robbery On cn n Thursday Ja last t his wife trite asked ed him hint to go to the time theatre with them lh They hall had already already- purchased the tho ho tickets He lIe accompanied them When hen ho got hack back to his room the robber had ben beets there again this his time gaining an aim entrance through h the door A large lase telescope belonging t u tt the aged man had been beets used to lo pack his belongings in rise Tho violin as tas gone sone Over Ovel a hundred recipes of or lIw made macho from flom h lbs scores of t that he lie lund had gathered l In itt Ini i l he the past few fow ow years a v fo ow articles of or clothing lothIng and everything c of any aty value that the old doctor docto oWned ned ham had been beds I taken or 01 had been LOrn torn and nud scattered about aboul the room I He lie found his way tray to the station stationhouse stationhouse stationhouse house again and to the police he lie again told lold his story So tar far aI the lie thief has not been caught In his room In Inthe inthe G the Oxford rooming house the ol old man sits alone waiting wRIting for fol some seine OIl one oneto to 10 bring back to him hint his violin loUn |