Show r. r II S. S L L. ARRESTS SUSPECTS IN BANK HOLDUP Officers Trace Men Through Auto License Reported by Teamster Robbery charged will be filed in n Davis county Monday Monda against three men held by police Saturday in Fridays Friday's Fridays Friday's Fri days day's holdup of oC the Farmers' Farmers St State e bank at Woods Cross according to Orlando Bowman Davis county at at- torne torney They were George Thornton 37 of 01 1083 West Broadway Allen Ailen John Edwards Edwar s. s 41 and William Charles Phipps 42 both of the D Delphi hotel South State street The three were arrested on a tip given police by Lee Cahoon F FER E R B A teamster of Woods Cross who noted the license number of an automobile bearing two rough looking men which he saw parked near the he bank before the holdup According to police and bank officers officers of of- two bandits entered the bank about 1250 p. p m m. Friday and forced Miss Elizabeth Hatch assistant c sh- sh i jet r alone in the place to put in cash in a bag they gave her Then they bound her to a chair In the thc directors directors' directors directors' directors directors' di di- rectors' rectors room and fled lIed in an automobile automobile auto auto- mob mobile le parked outside with a third man man at the wheeL At a police Saturday mornIng morn- morn Ing Mr Cahoon identified Thornton and Edwards Ed as as' as the two men he saw In the automobile John M. M Knight commissioner ioner of p public bUc safety Saturday commended the police automotive department particularly Detective R R. W. W Morrison Morri Morn son and Patrolmen Joe E E. E Mansfield and R. R E E. Cahoon who made the ar ar- rests Miss Hatch Saturday identified Edwards Edwarth Ed Ed- wards warth as the tall bandit who menaced her with a gun She was not sure Continued on Puce Page Two I BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS HELD I Officers Trace Men Through Auto License Reported by Teamster Continued from tram Pate Pue C Cas Cas as to the identity of Phipps according accord accord- ing tog to police Officers said that Lawrence Hatch a relative of or the cashier identified Thornton and Edwards as men whom he saw sitting in a car in Woods Cross the morning of the robbery Police reported Saturday that they found round m in the hotel room of oC Edwards and and that the they had learned that Thornton had purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a suit of clothes and several other articles Friday afternoon The license number they obtained from the teamster was re registered to Thornton off officers jeers said He was not at home when they called but was arrested about 10 p. p m m. m at Fourth South and Main Mam streets He denied all knowledge e of ot the holdup and told officers that his car had been parked on Second South street between n State and Main streets Friday morning It was later in a garage on Eighth West street near South Temple street he said Traced by License Officers found that the license plates had been cleaned recently with gasoline Plates of ot the bandit car had been smeared with grease or mud Edwards and Phipps were arrested after police learned that they were associates of Thornton and had frequently frequently fre Ire been seen in local card rooms to together ether The men were asleep In their hotel room when police arrived Officers found round in currency and in silver in a tobacco sack wrapped in ina a suit of underwear According to police Thornton purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a suit of clothes and presents for his children Friday afternoon also leaving 25 with his family Probe Holdup Police PoUce said Saturday that they were also questioning Thornton concerning concerning concern concern- ing the robbery of the Barnes Banking Banking Bank Bank- I ing ng company at in which a lone bandit escaped with last August 31 The Kaysville robbery was never solved but police believed that the automobile in which the holdup man escaped had been stolen th the day before before before be be- fore in Salt Lake City Sergeant A. A H. H Rogers of the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau of identification and Public Safety Safe Sal e ty Commissioner Knight went vent to Woods Cross Saturday to inspect the bank for fingerprints Thornton has a criminal record In InV V Washington and Utah police said He served a term in the Washington state prison for robbery one in the Utah state prison for assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to the state industrial school at Ogden in 1016 1116 for a holdup |