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Show INTOXICATED MAN HAD $713.79 JImmlo Means, the Croesus who was arrestod Wednesday afternoon while waving a handful of bills at the parsing crowd on Twenty-fifth street, forfeited ?5 bail in police court today by failing to appear to answer to a charge of drunkenness. When Means was arrested by Patrolman Herrlck he was in a state of beastly intoxication, intoxica-tion, and he had $713 70 on his person. per-son. Today, after he had forfeited his bail, he appeared before the desk sergeant, ser-geant, asked for his surplus money, and rccehed It promptly. To say that ho was glad that the police had locked him and his monev up for safe keeping Is putting It mildly He was fairly delirious with joy to think that he still had tho roll of bills. Chief of Police Norton made an in-quirv in-quirv and loarnod that the man had received tho money as indemnity for an injury ho received some time ago. Means said ho was hurt while building build-ing steel towers for a power company in Salt Lake. A damage suit was filed, and Means claims that he got the money arbitrating the case. When asked w-hv h0 brought? all of the money to Ogden. Means told the chief that he took the money out of one Salt Lakp bank for tho purpose of depositing It in another bank, and that -before he reached the other bank he got Intoxicated. According to his story, he then came to Ogden tp sober up. Means informed the chief that he formerly Jived in this citv. He is a boilermaker by trade |