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Show SHOPLIFTERS GET TERM IN COUNTY JAIL ! Excitement ran high in and around J. C. Penney's Springville store for a few minutes Saturday afternoon when four well dressed men entered the store and while the sales force was busy slipped four di esses and a man's suit under their coats and attempted a getaway, get-away, according to witnesses of the incident. The men involved were sentenced sentenc-ed Tuesday to serve 90 days each in the county jail when taken before be-fore Judge D. R. Ellcrtson. They gave their names as Antone and Mike Cordisco, Joe Meade and James O'Neill. All pleaded guilty tj a charge of petit larceny. Upon entering the store they went in different directions, and soon were suspected by Olive Childs and Lucde Taylor, who kept an eye on them as they proceeded to wait on other- customers. As ! they ft Miss Childs observed their 1 strange acts, and noticed that Ihe dresses were missing. ( She called C. W. Busard's attention at-tention to the thei't and he. set in after the men who went iiv different differ-ent Mi -ret ions. Marsha 1 Wallace Bird' and Nifht. Watchman Mel Chei rington j lined in the chase and the men were soon rounded up. One in Seymour Mendenhall's loft, one sil ting serenely on a bench in the city pa rk , one in the ba 1 1 paik ?nd the other one near Martie .Bird's residence. Investigations revealed a small cache of merchandise hidden near the ball park, which was thought by the officers to have been stolen by the same men. Before entering the Penney store the men arc said to have entered J. O. Reynolds' store. They were immediately suspected and watched so closely that they were unable to get away with anything there, although al-though they ai c said ' to have handled mei cha ndise in such a manner as to . liril. j ehnkc from Mr. Reynolds. The persist ence nl' the local officers of-ficers and the m.-iivigcr of ibe Bouncy Bou-ncy store arc I'-spcn -ib!" for the catching of ilv pk"i. who are thought by op t'i be experienced experi-enced shoplif i " .-. |