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Show 'SERB VICTIM OF TW BOX THICK Steve Petkovitch Loses Nearly $2000 in Swindle at Salt Lake SALT LAKE. April 8 Twelve hours after a duo of 'oil" promoters h,d J taken $1900 belonging to him "to put it in safe keeping." Steve Petkovitch, a Serbian section hand from Suttor Ham. Wyoming, inspected a tin cash box which he thought contained his money, to find that he had been the! victim of the old "box" trick Petkovitch. by hard labor and skimpy living, had accumulated nearly near-ly $2000. he told the police. While in YVyomfnp, he met two men who clahii-ed clahii-ed to possess an oil holding in Arizona which would in the near future, hhs-' som forth as a "gusher." He paid little lit-tle attention to the men while (in Wyoming Wy-oming but when the men met him at ;the depot In Salt Lake yesterday, carried car-ried his grips to a hotel, and paid him lever attention, he was convinced uit thej were cood fellows. When ).e o jin apprehensive about carrying his :-a ing.v. one of the men volunir... d to provide ;) place of safe keeping and secured a tin cash box for Petkovitch. Twelve hours after his friends bad left him. Petkovitch examined his cash box. to discover that an empty box had been substituted for the one in .vhich he hud placed his bank roll oo |