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Show I -BLIND PIG" ROBBED; PliOYO GETS BOTTLES Special to The Tribune. PROVO. Oct. 2 An alleged "blind pig" was robbed here Saturday night of fifty Hu bottles of beer by robbers who effected .n entrance by breaking- the glass 'out of the front door. Saturday the usual heavy shipment of beer -was "brought in. and at the time of the robbery there were several barrels of bottled beer unopened in the place, only one of which was broken open. Kach barrel, when it leaves the bottlers', contains con-tains seventy-two bottles, end consequently conse-quently the robbers left but twenty bottles bot-tles out of a whole barrel. The front door of the place ds glass. y nuh large panes, one of which being broken out made a. large enough opening for a man to crawl through, and the marks on the dirt sidewalk before the door Indkato that the man who went in and got the beer passed the bottles to a confederate on the outside, who carried them to a wagon in which they were hauled away. Tills place, situated on Lhc main street of the town, Is the same. In' which Henry Vincent was recently arrested on tho charge of violating the prohibition ordinance, ordi-nance, by Officers Mardinr and Ferre, which case in still before the court, having hav-ing been recently continued by Justice of the Peace A. A. Noon. Vincent, at tho time of his arraignment, entered a plea of not guilty and presented present-ed his own defense. When the dato set for the hearing came, he asked that the case be continued until October 20, advancing ad-vancing as his reason the .statement Hint his sister had recently died In Nome, Alaska, and that as the body would short-Iv short-Iv be hero for burial he wanted to be at liberty to attend to that matter when the time camo, and the court granted the extension as aHkud. |