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Show : POLICE BE WORKING TO SOLVE REAL 11000 MYSTERY An aged man, named Dodsell, bound from Richmond, Va., to Sacramento Sacra-mento and other California points, went, astray in Ogden today because he forgot to find out the name of the rooming house at which he registered last night. lie reported to the depot aulhori-tics'thls aulhori-tics'thls morning that he had lost his igr.'n, in which he had over a thousand dollars worth of liberty bonds. The depot authorities turned Uio man over to the police and after getting get-ting his story, the police arc making an attempt to locate the rooming house at which he stayed. Tho depot master stated that he came into Ogden yesterday on the Denver .t Rio Grande. First he though he left the grip on the train and then he was sure he took it to the room ho occupied last night. When taken to the police station, ho staled that ho had a little money on him. He took from his coat pocket a wallet and, on opening it, revealed to the startled gaze of the officers over $10,000 in government bonds and let-, ters of credit. Besides this he had I quite a sum of greenbacks. He snid he carried the bonds bo-cause bo-cause they were non-lran3ferabrc and I that he was the only one who could 1 cash them, so that in the event any-' one held him up they could get no use i of them. . ! In the "roll" wore three $2000 bonds, a letter of credit for ?o000. some treasury certificates of smaller denomination denom-ination and some greenbacks, tho amount of which was not . learned. oo |