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ED PURSER LOSES HIS EYESIGHT San Francisco Cal May 21 Edward Purser plunger has gone lillnd Twelve or fourteen years ago Purser was a familiar figure about the Chicago and Now York tracks and at that time his plunging operations attracted considerable attention attentionFor For six or seven months Pursers eyes have troubled him and recently he left the St Francis ilotel in tliis city and went to Belvedere He Iterame the patron of the Sausalito poolrooms ami ilicn came the final trouble The optic nerve be ¬ came paralyzed and he went totally Mind He has liecn attended by Dr Hopkins Dr Selfridge Dr 3Ioflt and Dr Thorne of this city hut they have been unable to help liim and have declared the case Hopeless Purser Is alKinf fifty years old lie Is 3iow being cared for hy Billy Whlttler one of his oldtlnm friends while other friends of the track foave rallied to help him through tlie trouble
