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Show LOCKED UP INVAULT County Treasurer Is Found After Fifteen Hours; $15,000 Gone.- PRESCOTT. Aria.. Nov. 10. Jas. P. Storm, county treasurer of this county, has been found locked in the steel vault of bis. office, bound and gagged, with $15,000 missing from the cash funds of the treasury. Mr. Storm had been In the vault fifteen hours when found today to-day by his daughter. He says that about 4 o'clock Tuesday Tues-day afternoon while seated In his office two men entered the door with handkerchiefs hand-kerchiefs tied over their faces, and. presenting pre-senting a revolver to his head, ordered him to throw up his hands. Storm complied and the two men closed the door of the offices, produced a string of baling wire with which they securely bound his feet and hands. They forced a handkerchief Into his mouth and pushed him inside the vault Afte gathering up $15,000 and leisurely ransacking the office for more money the men closed the door of the vault, locked the office and departed. Storm was so securely bound that he was unable un-able to release himself and remained in the vault until 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, when his daughter came to the office and discovered it locked. |