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Show ARMSTRONG SUES FOR James Atnislrong, Southern Pacific Paci-fic brakeman, who was arrcMled on September S. charged with grand larceny, lar-ceny, yesterday received notice that the charge against him had been withdrawn, with-drawn, and today the young man's attorney at-torney Is busy drawing the papers for an action to be commenced against Detective Cordon and the Southern Pacific; company, charging false imprisonment im-prisonment and false prosecution and asking for damuges for $5,000. The hrakeman claims he was hold simply on suspicion and the flimsiest kind of a pretext and was confined In Jail four days without a charge be. lng placer! against him, and then not until habeas corpus proceedings were instituted. I |