Old Loses His Wad

Old Man Loses His Wad

Stranger Lured Into House by a Woman and

Robbed of $104.

Man Old Enough to Know Better--Refused to Make Complaint Saying It Served Him Right

John Crowley stopped in the city Sunday on his way to Toledo and tells a startling tale of how some of the residents, finding he was a stranger within their gates, took him and did for him.

He relates that time hung heavily on his hands while he was waiting for his train and that while strolling about looking at the beauties of the city, its shade trees, well kept lawns and handsome flowers, he was attracted by a face that seemed to hold for him little more than the usual amount of attraction. In fact so attractive was her beauty and so charming her manner that he readily accepted her invitation to enter her domicile and partake of the rest and refreshment he seemed to be so sorely in need of. He entered and being as he claims, a man of age and wisdom, gave no further thought to the matter than that he was able to take care of himself.

But there are evidently several crooks in life's land that John hasn't mastered yet, and he discovered one of them yesterday, for while his charmer was entertaining and he was thinking that here was an oasis in the desert, the man of the house--or he called him such--appeared suddenly on the scene and proceeded to assert his rights in the premises and resent the presence of a stranger. Crowley did not care to argue the matter and so when the man talked settlement he was agreeable and allowed them to take all the funds on his person, $104.

Crowley felt very sore over the matter and upbraided himself roundly for his foolishness in the matter, but would make no complaint to the police. He was assisted in reaching his destination last evening.

Crowley appeared to be a man of about sixty years of age and said he was a stone mason. He was on the way to Toledo to visit a brother whom he had not seen for nearly twenty years.