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Show 'IEIDICMT IS' " . GHEI 30 DAYS A ' i 'i am a coal miner; worked In the mines at Cherry, 111., on tho 300-foot level, when I was entombed for 52 hours without food or' water. Contracted Con-tracted typhoid fever, after being brought to the surface, and lost my speech and hearing. ' God will help all who help a poor miner." v The above pathetic appeal, scrawled upon a sheet of writing paper, was used by Harry Wilson o fleece the gullible ont of an easy living Many Ogden housewives opening their purses gave liberally to the "unfortunate" "unfor-tunate" man, who with his pencil told them his sorrowful experience. The tieggar successfully "worked" Salt Lako City and was doing a very profitable profi-table business in this city when he was picked up by Detective James Pender and yesterday sentenced tn serve thirty days in the city prison . When Wilson appeared in Police court Detective Pender stated, to the court that he was a poor unfortunate man who had lost his speech and hearing at the time of tho Cherry mine disaster but that since his arrest ar-rest for vagrancy his speech and hearing hear-ing had been miraculously restored to him. The restoration of Wilson's senses came about In a most unusual manner man-ner When he was brought to the police station he answered all the questions put to him by the officers with a mute stare. Detective Pender finally ordered Jailer Anderson to lock him up. "All the cells arc filled," replied Andorsou, "all but that cell whero the man had the small pox and that hasn't been fumigated yet. We can't lock him up in there. We might put him In the woman's department" "He looks to me as though he'd had smallpox and anyway he'll never know the difference. Pender's voice was gruff and serious. Put him in that cell; we'll have to take a chance on him getting smallpox. We can't put him In the women's department." The prospect of being lockod in a cell recking with smallpox germs was too much for Wilson to endure in silence. His hearing and speech were Immediately restored. Ho ex claimed that he had never had small pox and that the officers had no right to expose him to the disease Thus exposing the man as an Impostor tho talk of tho mythical smallpox coll was dropped by.tho officers and Wilson Wil-son was locked up in the main prison, where there wero plenty of empty clean cells waiting. no |