The Springdale news., 1912-09-20
FORMER sPRINGDAIE CITIZEN GETS IN LIMf.EIGHT AND DROPS HIS ROLL IN DEAL

sibAt Ol h diLsas N<lls -NoliA .o4oc last night. Mostad told Captain Edwards at police headquarters this morning that he had been drugged and robbed of three S1 ,000 bills in house where there were women Captain Edwards says he believes the story.
 Mostad, rather dazed, was found at Fifth street, and Broadway early this morning by Charles Anderson. patrolman. He had a 5 bill in each hand and was trying to buy buttermilk from lunch wagon.
 At police headquarters Mostad could remember few of the details of his nights costly fun. The sub stance of his recital was that he had come here from St Louis with $3,500. Tester day afternoon he asked hackdriver he did not know to take him around. They went to place where there were women. He ordered several drinks and drank them. Then he became drowsy, tried vainly to rouse him self and says he can't remem ber what happened after that.
 The police learned that Mostad was at a roeming house kept by Ruth Adams at 615 Main Street She and two women who live with her. May Short and Ruby De Baum, We're questioned by the police at headquarters They said Mostad was at their place until nearly day light and that he spent money law ishly. They said he showed them two s10O bills and two s20 bills.
 Patrolman Anderson was sent to search Mostad's room at Moran s lrooming house, Fifth Street and Broadway He found $286 in bills and silver scattered about the room. The money was locked up for safe keeping at police headq quarters.
 Mostad is 4s years old and has a. wife and five children living in Canada, he said He recently sold a fruit farm near Springdale, Ark. and went 10 St Louis. He stopped there on his way to Canada, he said. Kansas City Star, Sept 12
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 The police sent s. A. Mostad on his way to Canada today, after con vineing themselves that at least a large part of the retired farmer s $3.000 was squandered in Kansas City and not stolen. Mostad took with him s276, all that remained of $3,600, the price of a fruit farm he sold in Springdale, Ark
 The rest of the money he scatter ed among resorts in the North Side. although the police believe some of 1t may have been stolen. R. l.. Maib and William C. Hazlett, pa- terday that Mostad had been here since Monday He was lavish with money everywhere, they learned. The police believe that if there was robbery it was in some saloon or alley.
 Mostad was placed on a train for Billings, Mont, at 9:30 o'clock this morning From Billings he will go to Canada to join his wife and child ren. He told the police early yes terday morning he had been drugg- f,, hAr there were women. Charles Ander- son, police officer, found $2S6 in Mostad'e room at Fifth Street and Broadway
 The police convinced Mostad they had done all they could to recover his money and that the loss of 1t was the result of his own indisere- tion. Hostad said the loss of $3.- 900 out of a $3.500 bank roll put an awful crfmp in his finances, but he'd let it go at that.
 The police promised the loser they would keep a lookout for his mon ey.-Kansas City Star, Sept 13.
 The escapades Of Mr Mostad. as told in the above clippings from the Kansas City Star, oeeasioned no lit- tie surprise and comment when read by SpringdaIe people Mir. Mos tad came to this locality some two years ago from the north, and pur- chased a farm southwest of town, although he didn't have very much the appearance of Q tiller of the soil. He was a very pleasant gentleman and made numerous friends. and q few. ~montA9' ago he was suaits& in marriage 10 Mrs. Bettis 6Ammons. .