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Show Veteran Returned to Home at Sawtelle Garrison Crane, 88 years of age, a Civil war veteran who was taken from a train here a wqe)c ago. suff ring from weakness and who had lost e railroad ticket which he said was to take him to the cast to visit relatives. h.a,s lc"n Benl back to the I ld Soldiers' Home in Sawtelle, Cal., from where he started his Journey. The man. enfeebled by old age and travel, was hi pitiable condition when he reached ogden. lb had no ticket and practical!) no funds. IurlnfT his period here he was cared for at the' county jail while efforts were made I to obtain funds with which to semi him back to the California home. Transportation was furnished him 'yesterday by the Southern 1'aclfic rall-road rall-road with the understanding tlidt he would recompense th- railroad from his pension money. Deputy sheriff Kay West took the old man to, th, d pot and placed him s.iiely on t:ie I train- ' The illness of the man made- itylm-' possible for him to continue the trip 'east unaccompanied and It was iledd-ied iledd-ied that he would be better cared for through being returned to the soldleis home. on |