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Show oo CLAIMS HE LOST FOUR DOLLARS Pullman Porter William Davis, who saved his life and valuables from the bandits of tho Overland Limited by fooling them into the belief that he was dead after he had been shot through the arm, is believed to have Increased the amount of money saved from the train robbers by working a ruso at the Dee hospital just before his departure for Chicago. While the management of tho hospital hospi-tal has been very reticent concerning Its trouble with tho colored man, the story has nevertheless leaked out that the porter, before leaving the Institution, Institu-tion, claimed to havo been robbed and ho forced the refund of money. When Davi6 was taken to the hospital a suit case accompanied him. The grip was placed In a locker without being opened and nothing more wns thought of it. About ton dnye ago, when the porter had recovered from the Injury to his arm and was ready to leave, he asked for his grip. It wns given to him and wheniho unlocked It he took out a roll o small bills, amounting to ?3C Davis counted the money over several times and complained thnt there should be $40. So persistent was he in his assertions that, rather than have him leave the hospital and spread the report that he had been robbed, four dollars wns given him by the hospital management. Davis, however, told a number of persons that he had been robbed and that he had forced the hospital man-ngpinent man-ngpinent to return to him tho money which had been taken. It Is tho general gen-eral belief at the hospital that the colored man had only 3G when he was brought to tho Institution and that he either forgot the amount of his cash or deliberately coerced the management out of ?1. |