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Show Suspects Are Held i In Montana Town ! j V. B. Reeves, alias. Peterson and Jop Aiken, the two nieeu arrested at ; Dillon, Mont.. last week, believed to ' lie responsible for the robbery of the Bank of Ephraini, are making a des-j des-j perate effort to escape being brought I back to face the charge placed j against them. County Attorney A. ! W. Jensen, who. with Sheriff Sanderson, San-derson, has bad the drag net out to locate the guilty parlies, advised the News man over the telephone yesterday yes-terday that proceedings were being rushed through in the endeavor to have the men returned to Sanpete county for trial. "The men are trying to prove an alibi," said Attorney Jensen "and they claim they were in Price canyon on the morning of November 2. when the bank was dynamited and valuables valu-ables taken. 'We. have been untiring in our efforts to locate the men and the description furnished by tha Colorado Col-orado officials, tallies 100 per cent with the men who are being held at the Montana town. Another strong point of evidence pointing to the two men held as perpetrators of the robbery, rob-bery, is a black fur cap. The fur cap found in the room of one of the men at Dillon, tallies identically with the one seen worn by one of the men the day they were seen in Ephraini." The fact that the men have been "roamers" and claim to be sheep-herders, sheep-herders, is not in their favor, it is claimed.1 Their travels have been traced through Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Utah, and other western states during the past summer. . Both the men are charged with burglary in the first degree. They were captured at Dillon Wednesday night of last week after some very clever work on the part of the officers. offi-cers. Aiken and Reeves are believed to lie two of at least three men who entered en-tered the Bank of Ephraini early on the morning of November 2 and blew open the vault with nitro-giycerin. according to Jensen. One man was outside tlie bank as a lookout, while his companions were inside looting tlin hank Marshal 'Anderson came upon (lie burglars at, work, engaging in a pistol pis-tol baltle with the robbers. Him than thirty shots were fired before they escaped in an automobile. |