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Show ' aVad of the searching equad, but 1 hope was still young In thir breasts ! and chances seemed even for locating him bffore the departure of the eas-bound eas-bound train. POLICE AID III NEGROSEARCH The police were searching every nrniuhle hiding Tdace last evening In a mad effort to apprehend "Hypo" Walter FTanklln. a negro "hop head," who has given the department no end of trouble for some time. The reason for their anxiety to locate lo-cate the man was due to the arrival of a colored woman from Reno who claimed to be a former acquaintance of Franklin when the latter was a I "useful citizen." and ioHsessed In tbo?e davs of mone and Influence. The woman was evidently In pon-session pon-session t if a considerable amount of moDev which It is said she won on the Johnson-Jeffries fight and a portion por-tion of which be was anxious to spend in befriending the unfortunate individual whom ehe once called a friend. She declare to the police that shu had heard that Franklin was living in Ogden and that tho bad stopped t-ff between trains for the purpose of giving him aaslstano1 . She told them that If they could locate "Hypo" within with-in a few hours she would gladly take him with her to some point whore ho could enter ft hospital for the treatment of drug habits and that ho would furthermore stand the entire CXArlot call wa Immediately turned In at the pol'c station and patrolmen patrol-men wore toon scurrying in every direction di-rection in an effort to tike every advantage ad-vantage of the opportunity to rid th city of "Hypo's" presence. Up to a ' late tuur ho w fctlU -ral nlnui |