Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-01 | Page 13 | Bandits Seized Counting Loot from Robbery

BANDITS SEIZED COUNTING LOOT FROM ROBBERY Victims Victim's Recollection fo for Faces Leads to Quick J Arrest ArrestA S A A A- good memory for fac faces and ability ability abil abil- ity lly to think quickly quickly- and calmly in a ac c crisis resulted in the the- arrest of oC two men early Friday on charge I ing ine up the Morrison Brothers Brothers' servIce station at S South uth State street Ray 1879 1819 Lincoln street reet night attendant at the station tation remembered having s seen en one of the men before and remembered his name i and approximate address He He ph phoned ned police immediately after the robbery and they went to South State street where they arrested William Mawson 22 and a companion Vie Vic Morgan 22 of f Green street COUNTING LOOT The two young men were in the act of counting the 2861 taken in tho the holdup when the hou house e was entered by the officers police said Additional Addition Addition- al evidence against the pair was furnished furnished furnished fur fur- through ability to remember remember re re- member the license number of of the car th the two were driving despite the fact t that at the license plates were bent up so so that the number was hard to read The car was found parked in iii inthe inthe the rear of the Mawson home told police two men drove into the service station about 3 a a. a m. m and asked for for five gallons of gaso gaso- line After he hc had sold them the gasoline t and was peering under th the hood o of the car to check the oil he said he felt something hard against his back and turned around to find one of the men with his hand in hla hi coat pocket as if U he were holding agun a gun KIDNAP ATTENDANT was vas ordered into the filling station and told to open the c cash sh reg reg- ister After taking the 2861 from from the cash register one of the bandits got into the front seat of th the thC car and the other ordered Morek into the back backseat backseat seat scat with him They drove to Ninth South and Third East streets where was searched and told to get out o of the car He phoned police as as' as soon as he had walked back to th the service station told police he formerly worked at a filling mUng station at Thirty- Thirty third South and State streets and while employed there had seen a man he thought was one of the bandits come in and out of of a house at South State Police went vent there and arrested Mawson and Morgan Both are held in inthe the county jail pending filing tiling of of- robbery charges The car found in the back yard of ot the Mawson n home had cad t to police been stolen a few hours before fore from David Keith Holladay boulevard William O. O Mawson's county jail jaU record shows he was arrested April 2 2 1932 for possession o of liquor and fined 25 Mawson was again arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested on August 31 1932 in connection connection con con- with a Ii statutory crime against a young girl The latter case was Wa dismissed September 7 for lack of ot prosecution the report o of W. W L L. Foxley Fox- Fox ley icy county expert shows