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Show ! HOLDUPS ROB I CANDY STORE ; ATDIVIDEND Dividend Confectionery Was Scene of Holdup Saturday Satur-day Evening. A wave of holdup and robbery crimes is sweeping Utah county at preseat. Not long since one of the stores and the postoffice at Thistle : mis broken into and robbed. More ' recently burglars entered the Real- j i art theater at American Fork and i j the Orem depot at Spanish Fork, j Tbe most recent holdup in the i county was that staged Saturday ; evening about 8 o'clock, when after j n drinking party at Dividend two ; nieu held up . the confectionary slnre operated by Manson and later ln'Hl up one of the men with whom they hnd been drinking. Little loot was secured in either : case, according to the sheriff's office. of-fice. One. of the men who staged the holdup is known to the police of-fleers of-fleers rmd his description has been I sent broadcast to the various offi-i offi-i eers of the state. j Search for the two bandits was , br-cim immediately after Deputy : Sheriff Coates had telephoned the sheriffs office of the robbery Sat-. Sat-. unlny night. Most of that night , "d part of Sunday night, Sheriff . 'p- Byd and his deputies were on : different trails trving to locate the bandits but without avail. The search Saturday night ex-; ex-; tended down to Milford where some of the deputies arrived early Sat-! Sat-! 1 onlay morning. j ! The holdups are described by those who saw them to be tall men. oth of them wore black coats and blue overalls and one of them wore 11 p. One had a bad-looking black i ; eye. |