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Show .. ..... A Grim Which Must Be Speedily Solved .: Tb brutal shooting of Davis county " . . grocer by trio of thug who robbed him of about f 10,000 In cash Thursday afternoon 1 challenge to ths law enforcement en-forcement officers of Utah and to the people of Utah generally, i This ' waa a particularly heinous crime the kind of vicious crime which tend to breed other such criminal misconduct mis-conduct unless It la quickly stamped out ' Homer E. Black, proprietor of grocery gro-cery stores in Ogden and at Sahara Village, Vil-lage, Just outside ef Hill field, was returning re-turning from the Laytoa bank to his Sahara Sa-hara Village store with $10,000 la currency cur-rency which he had withdrawn for use tn caahing Hill field pay check. He apparently ap-parently picked up a hitchhiker en the way back. - The hitchhiker waa a decoy for the robber trio. One ta Mr. Black's delivery truck, ha forced the grocer to ' drive off ths road, where two other baa-dlta baa-dlta joined them. They robbed Mr. Black aad then shot him three time before leaving the scene. They apparently believed be-lieved their victim was dead. He waa seriously wounded, but b managed to get to his Sahara Village store for help. ,-' This crime give every Indication of . careful planning. Itinerant thug would hardly pick ths proprietor of grocery ' atore in a small settlement off main highways high-ways for holdup. The robbers must have known It waa Mr. Black's custom to ash Hill field pay checks and to drive to ' the Laytoa bank for the cash. They might eves have known be habitually Iticked up hitchhiker. . Employer of the grocery said offl- . ears from Davis and Weber oo unties and from ths state highway patrol responded with utmost speed to ths call for aid. We hope that evidence of police alert- " a ess and cooperativenes is a forecast f efficient police work la tracking down these vidous intended murder. It should be the joint responsibility of all of Utah's . law enforcement agencies, working in the elosest cooperation with Davis county . eflViala, Tbia la oa Utah rim which should be speedily solved. r |