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Show REFORMS Ml OFFERS I TO RETURN TO PAY ' HIS BILLS Chief of Police W. I. Norton received re-ceived a letter indicating that the writer, who is entirely unknown to 1 him had apparently been conscience , stric ken and desired to make restitution resti-tution for wrongs done to residents ot Ogden a number of years ago. Believing Be-lieving that the man might be remembered remem-bered by some of the people he had victimized, the chief has made the I letter public, as follows: "Sacramento. CaL, Oct. 20, 14. "Hon. Chief of Police, Ogden. "Seven years ago I left your city owing a coupie of saloon bills, some room rent, and borrowed money. A short time before this. I had left a I drinking I was sorry for the w ay 1 I left Ogden, where I had a good job at the Eccles cabinet shop and meant to pay everv dollar I owed, but boozo had me. "When I came to California, I would leave one town after another, the same way as I did Ogden. but ! tbing3 have changed these days for j three years there has not been any 1 booze through my lips. I am serving I the Lord these days, don't need to throw my money oer he bar as I I used to. During the past summer, I j have been through these California I towns working and squaring up the ! old accounts and I want to come to Ogden and do the same and warn i other young men who are on the ! oroad way to destruction. "I do not know the full names or ad-j ad-j dresses of those whom I owe in Og i den cr they would have been pai l long ago. I am at present employed I at the Southern Pacific shops here, but it is hard to make any headway here on account of so much closing I dow n in the shops (H-ncdt A. G. BECKMAX, 706 9th street. Sacramento, Cal." |