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Show MACHINIST 15 ALLEGED BANDIT Prisoner Booked for Murder After Telling Conflicting Stories to Officers. San Francisco, Dec. 24 John Bos-tick, Bos-tick, a young machinist, who was pointed out to tho police yesterday by two victims of the scnsathmal holdup hold-up of the Sunset Limited near Los Angeles on December i, as the man who went through their car and shot dead H O Montague, a traveling paBr senger ifient of the Southern I'a ifu . was formally booked on a charge of murder today. The evidence which the police have been able to collect is overwhelmingly ! against him. When arrested, Bostlck I carried a watch belonging to one of I the brakemen on the Limited, and a paw n ticket calling for an unset dla-i dla-i mond which was traced down today laud positively Identified b the Jew-I Jew-I eler who sold it as the stone that was I In the engagement ring of Mrs Arthur Ar-thur Colen. who, with her husband, was returning from a honeymoon trip through the east when the robbery occurred. By a singular coincidence It was Mrs. Colon and her husband who brought about BoBtlok'i arrest. They were riding in a street far idly watching watch-ing the holiday crowds, when Colen suddenly called his wife's attention to a familiar face In the street. Both were sure it was the face of the unmasked un-masked train bandit. leaving tho car hurriedly, they trailed their tus- pect for twr. blocks and then called a policeman to make the arrest. Bos tick offered no resistance. When confronted with the proof against him Dostick told several conflicting con-flicting stories and when they were discovered false, he lapsed Into silence Colen and his wife are eligible to secure the Jo.OfK) reward offered by the Southern Facific, In case of Bos tick's conviction |