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Show "LOST IBENTIT rGRAT? Clever Swindler Working Western Towns by Fein ing Complete Forgetfulness of His Past Life "About a month ago " aald a commercial commer-cial ti velcr who irrlved In ushlng-ton ushlng-ton the other da) when t got Into u email town In town, on my sy Hist, I found the town ln a atnte pf innsld-erable innsld-erable commotion ovir the peculiar inae of a man who had ir uhed tho place the d i) hefoie 'Ihe man It seemed had one nf these atidilen-loaa-of Identity lasea about whlih we've been reading ao muih In tho new .piper, .pi-per, during the past foui or five )eirs Thi. 1 found out before I had aieu him. lie had ate I ed off a train bout d from Omaha to ( hkagii on the d ly before and had .ngageil tin station master In innvetintlon aa soon na th. ttiitn pulled out He had i lean lorgotten vvlin ho waa where he had tome flout wheie he vu going or nil) thing whatever about blmaiir the joung man told tho station mastei Ihe tall in mnatei of .oiirae waa willing to knotk olf woik anv tlmt to talk with aiiih a queer inposlllon na that The atatlon muster tool, the )ouug mnn to the hoi.l of the town nnd Inteiesttd social of (he solid illlzena In tho i use In ionveratluu with till of these the Joung man a manner huh ixiiitly the aarne its It had be. n wh.n hi hud taiklnl tin stntloli liuinti r und told Unit ollhlal of hla audrlin lusa of bl.lltllv In i quIit pBlhrlh sol t of wu) mid ireqimutlt I iibi lug hla hand in ft puaale I iniinnet atrnaii lila foie-bead foie-bead he told thiuii that he had no mure Id.a what hia mime waa than of anv of the eventa that had led to hla dropping drop-ping off the train Into tin little town In whhh he found hlmeell He didn't u-Dieiiiuvi- nil having seen the town hefoie he-foie and v hat hla put pose hid been In stopping off Ihirc wua too much for him The leading phvalrlan of the town waa callid Into confcienic n(ler nwhlle, and he waa as much pitaled over tho vnung man a stoi) na Ihe solid tlllrena He queatloncd the )oung man ilo.cly ua to whethti he had teientl) reielied anv lnjui) to hla held nnd the )0Ung man n plied Hill he didn't recill in)-HiliiB in)-HiliiB of the Hort 1 he medltal mnn examined ex-amined the jottng nnn thoroughly nnd found that lie waa In tiptop inndltlon llivsliall) nnd that be wna pcrfcilly ntlonil nnd levil-ticade.1 inentnll) except ex-cept that all teinllectlon of cver)lhlng ronncited with hla ptevloua life had ubaolutelj dcpaited fiom him Tho tnttn'a preaa loireapntident, of eotirap, got boll of Ihe queei stnrj und Interview Inter-view cd the j oung man und lu sent the atnr) out nil ovci thr louutrv All of thla wiib on the ill) before 1 got In When I arrlv.il nt the hotel the 1 indlord pointed the )oung mill nut tome nnd I went up to the table where lu wua itijotlng a heart) mull and hid a talk with him He wna n chap of about 2S or ao gool looking and very well dressed He bad liiulrd In the town without u cent of inone) nnd without any japera wh. reb) he could be Identified but hla i ibc seetne I ao extinnrdlnar) that the solid rlllzena had taken tnre of him and volunteered to aland fin his hotel hill nnd so on, until It could be de. Ided what to do with him The solid illlzens na a in liter li-ter of fail were nitlnr proud of tho liiiBlnes" knowing na the) did that the stiiiy hid lien nil oil to the popira all oier the iiiuntrv The) innalrhreil that It sort ol advtrtlsed theli town "Ihe townsmen who hid volunticro I to look out for the joung fellow nssem-bled nssem-bled ut the hotel mi tin night thnt I got lu fur thr purpose of arriving nt omo dedslon aa t what should Im done with him There wna no hospltil In the hue ilislcned to .ope with inaea of lost Itlrnilt) I h ippen. I to mention at the innfmnii that lethipt tin) voting turn vv mid le hrttrr off ln hi-(ago hi-(ago whcie he iould go lo one of the big boapltala for treatment The )nuug chap came In at thai - , lcmaik thnt h haa .Wlntwtia recollection that the fm. n, uom which h, hallrJdXTar?'.:11 "I nm uoing up to.M ""it 5S'vS'ft The) all looked unon th. . ua a good one, and i h ii. ! .'! . Then they took up a'uff" ' i oung man'a benefit ana l6'.'" I a hundred doll ,r, whkh iVf'1 me to kc-p for lilm unin .,h(r v bkago 1 told then Xj'P lalhei not do that l,Li," ' ?! jotnig man appeared tn tl. " t tlonal and li! '.ha " lol'll fund hlmaelf. ho (hoy L"'"!!; inomy over (o him on tjfnd4 t inoining. and grlpn hi,1?? '""ot; dial good-bjo hnn.l.hake & (if us illmbed aboard th. ,h,M bound for Chicago e " "W e Kot Into the smoi, , , joung mnn pullerl out . v ,nJ t good rlgira and offered .."" ' Then he produced f rom . . '? ' qunrt bottle of Iowa drug uV9 and offered me i drink : ThiJ0,." .tirprlaed me a vt hole lot but tT wnnt to take a ilinme Jf m.ii1' man of lost Iden(lt) nervouiV"1 milting Inqtilrle, t him ,U b' " how nnd why he got the 1,1,1 L,k" took n nip along with Mm tl" f,out Hint. Well tolnam.Ji,,1 lilt that bottle up pret", h''ftl nn hour after our lep" C' aide of n coup e of hours k. .. ,Jl well Jagged ' llo InMtid game nf pokir with himT,,',"! ilean forgot all about hi. oil m"1 should atlll remember , he .S' volt ed g line of draw poktr.butlJv any am thing about It ThtnthiT; fellow took another large J.i.'.T bottl- nnd gajed nt me 'aSJf ' of v;n) nut of the slants of K' to n"ren Rm Pa1, aln ' " . ,T',l"h ,l0;b o' memory Khr said he. and then he went on ly nnd let the cat out of the hit? in that he had been worklngthej tight along nil over the countr?! two pi thrco jeara past nherrri waa broke nnd thlt he ot anir n cute little bundle on the nrtr.I It ever) time. I told him tut" ", a loifer nnd a blackguard ndaj, ptbci things, but he via. too J loaded to .are by that time anil the smoker In disgust and axent ta of the front tnra He xv aa atlll u-up u-up when I left the train at Cth nnd I would sulci) have turarlt over to the police If Id beta tri that there wna any ihar&e tipoam he could be held In Chlcajo ' Three nights liter I aaw thitri mnn executing a queer atunt ti . much-lighted district of tntt Chicago. A street piano Itilligi pin) Inr hlH Instrument In frtoti prominent ailoon, and the jou ! low. still ver) well dressed aal a tending to be Intoxicated wblci wiiant then wia taking He nHl nwn) from the Dago every mlnitttHi nml plijlng the thing MmsetiH ptiBBlng tl e lint around lilt rervMb ame an tickled the eroad atolrtH' upon the joung fellow at a tso-tUaB bred In devilment that they tosB-uttd tosB-uttd Ilhernlly. I fnlloned hl-i I'M to three nr four vvldel) aenaritidpit1! that evening, und he repeattl H dodge, everywhere gettlnt blr which he, of course, srllt aim 1 hiclllnii orgnu grinder AlllailH' wuh about na fox) a grafter a) 1 rH i met up with an)vvhere'-AaihinTga .star H |