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Show DR. OSGOOD IS HELD UP IN HIS OfFICE Dr. Charles F. Osgood, the physician, physi-cian, was made the victim Sunday afternoon of one of the boldest daylight day-light robberies evfer perpetrated in Ogdon A lono bandit accomplished the hold-up andij before searching his victim, tied him securely with a rope and gagged him The police were notified within three minutes of the robbery and woro furnished with an excellent description of the. man, but thus far no trace of him has been discovered. The robber secured $56 in money. . 'I was as my desk," said Dr. Osgood, Os-good, "when a man entered at about a quarter to three.'and asked for my brother, the dentist. 1 told him that I auld make an appointment for him Monday morning nd he accepted the proposition and turned as if to leave. I had my back urned toward him when I was prompted to look around and found myself staring Into the muzzle of a revolver ' The fellow advised me to make no outer' and ordered nie to put up my hands. I did so, at the same time stating to him bat such a procedure was unnecessary as I would give him what inonex Ilmd without further trouble. ' " 'I'll go through with it now that I've started,' he replied, and ordered me to walk up to tho wall and stand with my face 'toward it. I did not hesitate to comply, althoufih after another an-other glance at the old gun he was holding on me I was somewhat tempted tempt-ed to grab hold of it and tako a chance with him. As soon as I was in the desired position, the robber produced a "iece of rope from his pocket and tied by hands and feet. He then went Into the dentist office and brought out two towels. 'These are clean, so I guess you'll not object to them,' he said, and forced one of them into my mouth. I held my Jaws somewhat rigid and prevented him from crowding crowd-ing the towel down my throat. He then tied the other towel over my mouth and began searching me. "From one pocket he obtained a twenty-dollar gold piece and a ten, and from my wallet $5 in bills. He then examined my gold watch and. deciding that he did not care for it, he turned his attention to my ring. By crooking my finger pomowhat. I baffled his attempt to remove the ring and he finallv abandoned it. He tried my safe door. Then telling ine that he would 'call up Dr. Osgood in about two houi-R to release me,' he left the office. It was evident that he had planned ta rob my brother and was not aware of the latter's relationship to me With my hands tied, I succeeded suc-ceeded In abstracting a knife from my pocket to cut the rope and immediately im-mediately called ui the police. "The man appeared nervous while he was robbing me and his breath smolled strongly of cigarettes. H6 may be a drug fiend, although I would not be certain He was n man about 30. smooth shaven, about 5 feet 7 Inches in height, weighed about 150 ' pounds, and was dressed in a black suit, brown shirt and tie, black derby hat, and looked to be In moderate circumstances." cir-cumstances." The robber is "believed to have had time to catch the southbound Bamberger Bam-berger train and it was afterwards learned that a man with a ticket for Salt Lake nd answering the description descrip-tion given, left the train at Clinton. The police arc working on this cu'.e. no |