Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-05 | Page 13 | Grocer Traps Armed Robber

They Battled in Bandit Capture I i T m I i 1 Hi 1 j. j rw L H 4 1 4 7 I II ft I t. t J J. J I it m FIGURES IN GROCERY HOLDUP ATTEMPT Lynn ATTEMPT Lynn Gillespie left Herman McCrea 1 J. J H. H Cleminson Lester B. B Cleminson Inset William Villiam Muir l suspect GROCER TRAPS ARMED ROBBER Fells Holdup With Can of Corn in Fight Suspect In a frustrated grocery grocery- store holdup in which he allegedly alleged fired a pistol at the proprietor William Muir 43 43 3 of ot South State Stat street alias William Blackin Black In was in the city jail Wednesday awaiting awaiting awaiting await await- ing filing tiling of ot charges According to the proprietor J. J H. H Cleminson Muir entered the Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton market and grocery East Fifth So South th street et t at 6 C p p. p in m. Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day purchased grapefruit and ana loitered loitered loit bit ered until the store was as clear o of other patrons Then Mr Cleminson said Muir Mui pointed a pistol at him Youre joking Mr Cleminson retorted stalling for time The Th Theother Theother other him in strongly strong flavored language that he was no not joking jolting whereupon Mr Cleminson called to the thc butcher Lynn Gillespie 25 in a a back room Bring the rifle Lynn With the pistol jammed agaInst Mr Cleminson's stomach the holdup holdup hold hold- up forced the proprietor to walk wal backward toward the office When Mr Gillespie emerged from the back room carrying a rifle Muir according to Mr Cleminson fired tired his pistol the bullet lodging in a walL valL walLIn wallIn valLIn In the confusion Mr Clem Cleminson ins on grabbed a can of corn and brought brough it down upon the intruders intruder's head knocking him to the floor The proprietors proprietor's son Lester B B. Cleminson n who vho was outside durin durIng the excitement ran inside am and joined his father a Mr Gillespie Gillespi and Herman McCrea delivery boy in subduing the holdup Father and son were sitting upon Muir when Detective M. M D. D McGinness Me Mc- Ginness and Patrolmen J. J P. P Emer Emery and Owen Poulson arrived