A. L. Cox, late of Illinois, was in town Wednesday consulting a lawyer and from him we gleaned the following story: He had lately purchased a stock of groceries at Avilla, and was invoicing Monday, when an individual (we will not give his name) came to him and asked him if he would go and take a drink. He said he was tired, so he followed his friend to the drug store and took two drinks of what he supposed to be wine. This is the last he remembers until about dark Monday evening when he was awakened by rain falling in his face and found himself in a back alley. He claims that during his stupor he was robbed of four hundred dollars in money and two deeds, one for 153 acres in Illinois and the other for 160 acres in this county. But this is not all, for the worst part of it, for he says he was then arrested for selling liquor, when he had never sold a drop, and that his lawyers advised him to plead guilty and be fined $100, which he did. This is a strange story and, if true Mr. Cox is certainly entitled to sympathy, and the guilty parties ought to be punished severely. Mr. Cox has a wife and two children at Avilla.

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