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Show DOOKKEEPER RODDEO HIMSELF Lost at the Gaming Table and Then I Decame an Embeuler, I (Inldnetil. N'ev Herbert K Itlgga I bookkeeper for the K 11 Newtand llmkerngn romiwny, who was found jiticuntrlotia on tho floor nf tho Now land' office last Friday night, and who ilaltneil that ho had been assaulted and robbed of 11.116 of hit emploor't noney, confessed that the entlnu ttorj wna concocted lo hldo speculations Hlgga says he lost n small amount ot money gambling, and fearing that hit '.heft would bo discovered he look all Iho money there wn In tho snfo an then bumped hi head nn tho edge ol nit desk to give color to the ttnry that he had been assaulted Ho lost tl2f gambling, suit 130 entt by oxpres bid $330 tinder the atcp In tho rent it Carpenter' union hall, nnd tucked HC0 away In Iho comer of tho sufo All tho money haa been recovered N'ewland aaya ho will not prosecute Itlgg In cause of the latter' youth an hla previous good record. |