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Show uu CLAIMS SWINDLING DROVE HIM CRAZY Denver, April G. Alleging that he feared he might obey the impulse to take his own life E. S. Braudoll, 50, is a prisoner here while the police are Investigating his story that ho was buncoed out of 7500 last Friday in Salt Lake Citj-. The department has suppressed tho story since Tuesday, when Brandell asked to be locked up. Brandoll was buying horses for George Ditty of Dillon, MonL Whie stopping at the Hotel Utah In Salt Lake, Grandell says he met two men, one of whom was named Myers, who induced him to bet $7000 on a 'sure-thing" race. He "won" $21,-000, $21,-000, he says on a race that was never run. Ho was then Induced to 'copper" tho bet for a "killing" and bet his entire en-tire roll. The swindle, Brandel says, was pulled off In an elaborately fitted "telegraph" office, within a block of the hotel. He fears that Ditty will prosecute him for misappropriating tho funds. |