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Show HOLDUPS SANDBAG THEIR ViCTiM II. C. Hawkins, who claimed lo be a Spanish war votcran, was the victim vic-tim of a sandbagger last night The nun was beaten badly about the head and face and was In a bad condition, con-dition, although he had not a mark on his body excepting the swellings that always follow a genuine case of sandbagging. sand-bagging. The man said he had been drinking a little, and that he was turning into an alley leading off Lincoln avenue between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth streets, when he lost track of the subsequent happenings. He was found and brought to the station house, where he was given medical attention by City Physician Anna Reis, and restored to his faculties. On the left rear 9lde of his head was a swollen ridge, about tho shape and size of a sandbag, and on his left Jaw and near the eye were swellings of the same nature. All of the bruises were very painful and it is the opinion of the authorities that the bruises could have been adminldtci-ed adminldtci-ed with nothing else than the sandbag. sand-bag. Hawkins declared that the last oc-count oc-count he took of the contents of his purse showed something like $19 or $20, but when he was brought to the city, jail he was penniless, giving tie pollco the idea that the knockout w.ts done for the purpose of robbing the victim. |