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Show MR. C. ED. LOOSE ; ROBBEDJjF $1-000 . Chicago, Juno 4. C. B. Loose, Republican Re-publican national committeeman for . Utnh, was robbed of n wallet and contents con-tents valued ut more than ?1,000 be fore nn audience of 1,000 tonight. The robbery took plnco lu ;i loge box nt the .Majestic theatre. It wn all done In a two-mlnuto scene of darkened house n regular part of u vaudeville sketch. li talis vt tno theft nro mill some-thIn- of n mysteiy lo tho innn lobbed but tho police declare !t tho masterpiece master-piece of the cleverest Rang whose work they havo encountered In years.. Mr. Looso wns silting In a logo box off (ho first balcony nt the Mnjestlc theatre with his son, W. D. Loose. He had his money when ho took his seat. Tho lights wcjo turned down. After-they After-they blazed up ngaln ho put his hnnd ' , pocket. It met nothing but tho lining. Five seats around lilm wero vncant. They had been occupied by the "gnng" when the lights went down. "It must have been tho man who sat In the next box," said the victim at-orward. at-orward. "Ho sat In tho right hnnn chnlr so that ho really was sitting right next to me. In my pocket wero six bills of $100 each, n draft on n Chicago bank for $375 and railroad transportation back to Utah In all moro tlinn $1,000. "I remember tho man next to mo leaving. When ho got up ho stumbled stum-bled nnd fell against mo. Ho must have got my money." According to others In tho uudlenco there was a woman sitting directly back of Mr. Loose, With tho man !n tho next box wero two women and another an-other man. When tho supposed ox-pert ox-pert "lifter" did his work thoy nil leaned forward from their scats to catch hlni ns ho stumbled. Their action ac-tion shielded him nnd Mr. Loovo from the view of the persons behind them. |