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Show SOLDIER IS ROBBED OFJ50 HE MET A FAIR DAMSEL WHO j SAID, HELLO. When They Parted She Had His Money Mon-ey and He Had Her Smile and He Said "Durn It!" A snowy-haired, battle-scarred hero of two ware, Private Heals of Can- i fornla, complained to the police do- fartrnent today that he had been robbed rob-bed by a siren of tho underworld who t craped an acquaintance with him ou the street Friday night and In some manner, not known to him, separate l 1 im from about $50 lu coin of the , realm. Beals Is a man fast approaching 71) years of age, but Is still a sturdy, active ac-tive old "war horse" who defies de-creptitude de-creptitude and, until his experience or Friday evening, has defied femininity In general as he Is still a bachelor. He can recite tale after tale or "hairbreadth "hair-breadth 'scapes near the Imminent deadly bret-ch," In skirmishes wita the Confederate Price while a member mem-ber of tho Seventh Iowa cavalry ot .'61. to running fights with tho Sioux and Arapahoes on the 'plains of Nebraska Ne-braska wheu Julesburg was Fort Sedgwick, Sedg-wick, and Cottonwood Springs was the metropolitan center of the frontier. fron-tier. Not In all his experience, however, how-ever, has chance or mis-chance ever separated him from any of hla hard-earned hard-earned gold without his personal sanction sanc-tion until his ill-fated adventure or Friday evening. Deals was returning to California from a visit to his old home in Iowa, and stopped off in Ogden over night. intending to resume his Journey today. to-day. Ho visited various saloons on lower Twenty-fifth street and shortly afterward was accosted by a female ot striking appearance who . apparently took almost a daughterly Interest in him and his safety. During the brier Conversation which followed. Heal?, accompanied by his "protector," proceeded pro-ceeded about a block and then separated. separ-ated. Soon after bidding the charmer charm-er adieu, however, Heals took a casual cas-ual inventory of cash on hand and found that he was penniless. "I suspect the hussy got it all right, ' said he. "but she must have been a slick one to have taken it out or my pocket without my knowing it. Durn it! I've traveled this country over from one end to the other a score ot times and I've been up against about e very game a soldier and Indian lighter light-er can find, but I never got touched in this manner before and I never will asaln. I suppose 1 was tanked up a little, all right, or I wouldn't havo been talkln' to the hussy. Well, she's v clcome to It. A man who learns as much as I have in the last 15 hours for $50. is gettln' off cheap. I wired homo for more money this morning and got it within a few hours. Now I'm going bock to forget all about Ogden Og-den and my little experience hero. Cress you've got some pretty slick women hero, alright." An effort is being made by tho po lice to apprehend the woman who turned turn-ed the trick on Deals and there is a possibility of her being round and lorced to disgorge her plunder. |
