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Show It Seemed Her Duty. "I simply did what my religion laugm inc. This is what Miss Martha Logsdon of 601 West Forty-second street, Chicago, said when a Tribune reporter restored to her the jeweled crucifix she had placed the night before in the hand of a supposed dying man. She left afterwards after-wards without disclosing her identity, and police from the Stockyards station vainly searched for her to restore the cross. - Emerson Abbott. 841 Garfield boulevard, boule-vard, a lineman, had been injured by the falling of an electric light pole at Forty-second street and Lowe avenue. After he was taken to the Provident hospital the crucifix was found clutched in his hand. Abbott's arm was amputated. ampu-tated. He will recover. The first thing he said on regaining consciousness after the operation was: "Has the owner of the crucifix been dis-ro' prfd? I want to thank her." . . "I don't see anything strange about the matter." said Miss Logsdon. "The man was dying, as I supposed. I did not care whether he was a Roman. Catholic or not.. It seemed my duty to place the cross in his hands." |