Arizona silver belt., 1902-01-16
AN ARIZONA MAN SWINDLED.
ch,c.so Swindlers Work a Gila County Citizen for si0o-Trested for Rabies by Bogus Doctors, Who impsrsonste pr. tssorio.

tectiye headQuarters yesterday and told a story that started the officers out in all directions hunting for two s'professional" men and hack driver who had swindled him out of SlOO by impersonating pr. A, Lagorio and rep resentatives of the Pasteur institute.
 Emmons, lying out in the open one night in the mountains hundred miles west of Phoenix, was badly oit- ten in the hand by skunk, and warn- ed by the horrible deaths Of three companions who had been bitten in the same way some months before ana had become infected with rabies, i'm mediately started of for Chicago for treatment at the Pasteur institute.
 At Kansas City the Santa Fe tram was boarded by handsomely dressed old man with a white beard, who soon got into conversation with the miner He heard the story of his misfortune in sympathizing way and then de- clared that nothing could have been more fortunate than the chance meet ing, as he was an old and intimate friend of Dr. Lagorio and could get him to the office of the institute with out loss of time as soon as the train arrived in Chicago
 When they reached the Polk street depot, on Christmas day, the friend told his victim that he would better go to the Somerset hotel, at Twelfth street and Wabash avenue, recon mended to him by his companions Tn Phoenix, and that after leaving his baggage there he might return to the depot In the meantime the stranger promised to go to the telephone and find outif Dr. Lagorio was in his down town office.
 Half an hour later, when Emmons got back to the depot, he found his accommodating friend there with a tall, dstinguished-looking man in glasses, who was introduced to him as Dr. Lagorio. The doctor" told him that he was more than glad to have been able to meet him so soon, as the city was full of sharpers and conti- dence men. who might have led him away to some interruptions quack 1T he had been alone. He added that his private carriage was in front of the station and asked the patient to ac- company him to his temporary offices for immediate treatment.
 Having no reason to doubt the iden- tity of the man and being worried ana anxious to begin anything that would ward of the dreaded disease, Emmens willingly consented, and he was driven to a tall building somewhere inside the downtown loop and taken to q suite of rooms,
 The place was handsomely furnished but Emmons noticed at once that il did not look like doctors office, and that there were no signs either on the doors or windows. His companions, however, quieted his doubts by saying that the hospital was being renovated and that they had been compelled to move into temporary quarters for a few days while alterations were going on.
 Emmons was given some drugs and paid a deposit of $50 for his treat ment, with the understanding that another S5O was to be handed over at the expiration of five days, when the full cure was to be effected. He then left for his hotel in the carriage that had taken him from the depot, after being told that he would be called for at o'clock each following afternoon and driven back to the office.
 Every day the hack stood half a block away from the hotel, and Elm mons, after boarding it, was driven tO the "Pasteur institute" He was giy- en more treatments, consisting, as has now been ascertained, of simple pur- gative medicines, and at the end of five days was pronounced cured, immedi- ately afterward paying the men the other $50.
 Fully believing that he was cured, he made all his preparations to leave for Arizona the next night, but by a pc. culiar coincidence found out a few  hours before the train started that he had been swindled.
 He entered clothing store to buy a suit and while there told the salesman of the rapid cure that had been effect. ed in his case by pr. Lagorio. The salesman had been patient of the Pasteur institute, and after hearing Emmons' story, declared he had been the victim of trickery. Dr. Lagorio was telephOned for, and in half an hour met EmmOns at the Somerset hotel. The miners eyes were opened, and th> physician at once took him to detective headquarters, where he told his story.
 Dr. Lagorio insisted on taking care of him and giving him treatment, without compensation, when he heard