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Show ! CATCH YEGGS ! LOOTING STORE Three Ex-Convicts Surprised At Farming ton; Yield To Captors. FARMINGTON, Utah. July 30. djJl) Trapped by three armed men and two women, three ex-convicts of the Idaho state penitentiary at Boise were captured early today while looting the Max Florence soft drink parlor. i One on Parole- The trio gave their names as Harold Har-old Beckstead, 20, Salt Lake; Robert Underwood, 30, and Ted Lewis, 30. Beckstead said he served time for robbery and was out on parole. The other two refused to discuss their prison records. The bandits accidentally stumbled onto a burglar alarm which aroused Max Florence, his wife and daughter, daugh-ter, and Lee and Ernest Burnham. They surrounded the store and surprised sur-prised the three men as they were sorting out merchandise on the counter. The burglars submitted to capture cap-ture without any show of violence. Authorities indicated a charge of attempted robbery would be pressed. Finger prints of the three were sent to the Idaho penitentiary at Boise today. |