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Show ABDUCTED AND SET ADRIFT Cox Returns, and Tells How He Was Shanghaied Shang-haied and Robbed I Tacoraa, Wash., Feb. 8. The strange disappearance of T. A. Cox, general manager of the Arizona & Pittsburg Mining & Smelting company. Tucson, Ariz., was partly cleared up late last night when he walked Into Tacoma from some Puget Sound port, after having been absent from home since December 16, last. While very reticent as to details, Mr. Cox alleges that he was shanghaied shang-haied from the port of San Francisco, December 20, and that his abductors placed him aboard a strange ship, robbed rob-bed him of hl3 jewelry and watch and about $175 In money, 'and that he was turned adrift Thursday. Mr. Cox reported here penniless, ragged and tattered as to raiment and without enough funds to pay for the telegram that he sent to his wife telling tell-ing her that he was alive. He is with friends in this city, and Is in a shattered shat-tered mental and physical state, but rational. He has promised to unravel the details of his forty-eight days of captivity as' soon as he can communicate communi-cate with friends In San Francisco and with his relatives here. Mr. Cox is a memher In good standing stand-ing of Tucson, Ariz., lodge B. P. O. E. No. 3S5, but says the reason he did not appeal to local Elks was because he had no credentials to Identify himself. him-self. He said he was 31 years of age. married and had a wife and boy in Tucson.. The company's mines and property are located at Patagonia, 100 miles south of Tucson, toward tho Mexican border. Cox said he had about finished his business In San Francisco and was about to depart for Pittsburg when he was spirited away. He says he is withholding with-holding the details of his strange experience ex-perience until he can set the machinery machin-ery of the law in motion to bring his abductors to justice in tho California city. |