Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-10 | Page 30 | Bandits Raid Idaho Towns and Escape

BANDITS RAID EAID I IDAHO TOWNS TOWNSAND TOWNSAND AND ESCAPE IDAHO FALLS Ida Aug 9 9 Eastern Idaho authorities are still sUlI seeking a party of four tour or five bandits bandits bandits ban ban- who early Friday morning raided raided raided raid raid- ed the town of Roberts north of here and secured from a gar garage garage ga ga- ga- ga r rage ge owner at the point of a gun I and stole merchandise valued at from to to tOj from the drug drugstore I store Robbery of ot ota a hardware store at DuboIs Dubols is also credited to them News of ot the robbery which oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc between 2 30 and 3 a a. a m m. did not become known until about 3 30 after r Norman garage owner owner extricated himself from the bed where he was tied by the bandits Gordon L Jenkins manager of the J Jenkins Jenkins' drug company said to today today today to- to day that the loot taken from his store consisted principally of guns and jewelry attached or being used in connection with punch boards and cameras They were valued at be between between between be- be tween and he said Authorities who Immediately got goton goton goton on the track of the bandits found that they had gone north from Roberts Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts for a short distance then turned turned turned turn turn- ed and circled back in the direction of Idaho Falls and Pocatello Garage men at both Roberts and DubOis Dubols- where a hardware store was vias r robbed got license got license numbers of ot the two cars both from front Utah Investigation both have ve been taken from cars stolen in or r near hear Salt Lake Lake City A car the curtains half halt drawn was seen in the vicinity of ot Roberts by a n. traveling salesman Thursday night occupied by four or five men I believed to be the bandits