Show BANDITS ROB STORE MENAGE OCCUPANTS Armed bandits terrorized winsome Barbara Watts 17 East high school student and held her mother Mrs Emma Watts and brother Byron 12 at bay Wednesday night while they looted the cash register of the grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery store operated by Mrs 1 Watts at 1045 Ninth East street The mother was standing near the cash register and her two children were chatting near the center of the store when two well dressed men en entered entered en- en the store just before bc ore closing time and asked for I walked to the cigar counter and was explaining that I 1 did not carry when one of the men drew drewa a revolver and md thrust it in my face tace Mrs Watts said Thursday After ordering me to raise my ray bands hands the gunman turned and brandished brandished brandished bran bran- dished the weapon in front of ot Barbara Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- bara and her brother ordering them to back against the north wall of ot the store The armed bandit forced Barbara to tell ten his hl companion how to operate the cash register This second bandit scooped from the cash till while the gunman warned the three victims to stand quietly and not to spread an alarm The two men ran across across' the street and had disappeared in an alley an-alley alley before before before be be- fore members of ot the police prowl car detail could reach the scene |