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Show i " ! :- . LL ' A ' " ""'"' y ""7" . ... ?' , : : - cTJV , , Bandils'Viclim At Ogden To See Photos i V , Folic Exports Gothor - Hoguos' OalUry For Woundod Grocer By Du VaMithw . Homer K. Black. Sahara Village grocer brutally shot in a $10,000 holdup Thuraday afternoon, was to be aaked late Friday to identify picture of a auapect rounded up -by Weber and Davt county authorities. au-thorities. He is in av Ogden hospital. hos-pital. A polio photograph of 4 37-year-old Ogden man arrested early Friday by Ogdea police in a locked room wan -to-bo shewn the strlckea grocer. Sheriff officials in both counties had also gathered . a portabi "rogue gallery" to take to the bedaid of Mr. Black, lilted In "fair condition" in St. Benedict' hospital in Ogden. - Lt. I M. Hilton, head of the Ogden police identification bureau, aaid two "clear" fingerprint have been obtained from Mr. Black' delivery car. Study Fingerprints ' Alio under study by fingerprint expert are prints taken ' from ' three beer eana obtained from a Clearfield tavern. It was reported re-ported that three men were in the tavern Thursday Bight "flashing rolls of money."- Ogdea Police Chief M. J. Schoof broke into a locked Ogden hotel room Friday and arrested a 37-vesr-old owner of a yellow eon- . . , Tribaee-Talecrss SUM KnM Fbets 4 Chock for Brutal Bandits' Prints Detective Robert F. Carver, fingerprint expert el the Ogdea police dtuaiUucwt gees aver dcHiery truck for flagerprasU watch officers heps wIM I lead them to robber tria who shot Homer K. Black Thursday near Sahara Village. Watching proceedings pro-ceedings la Depaty Zeaaa Beaaett af Syraeuoe. vertible. The four-stats hunt for the armed bandits who shot Mr. Black, operator of the Sahara Village Vil-lage grocery store, three times and left him near a haystack, hinges on a yellow eonvsrtible used in the brutal shooting. Oaa In Car The man arrested In Ogden refused re-fused to open his hotel room when officers traced him through the ownership of a IMS ysllow convertible con-vertible coupe. The car was picked up Thursday night In front of ths Ogden city library. A shotgun was found in ths car. After entering the man' room. Chief Behoof said hs found a new (100 and two new $20 bills plus a number of dlsguisss sues aa false teeth, wig and toupees. . The man, who la out att WOO bond on a morals charge, ia being held for questioning by Davis and Weber county officials. , Mssawhile, Mr. Black waa In fair" condition in an Ogden hospital hos-pital Friday. Hs underwent an emergency abdominal operation Thursday night. He is suffering from face and back wounds. Davis eouaty ahsriff's deputies Friday marveled at the stamina and fortitude of Mr. Black aa army veteran who stsggsrsd and pulled himself mere than a mils down a lonely road after he was shot "It's amasJag." Deputy Zenoe Bennett said. Mr. Black, suffering suffer-ing from severe back bullet wounds, apparently waa left for dead by the bandits ia ths back of a lonely haystack about onc-balf onc-balf mile south of Sahara Villags and a half mils wsst of the Laytoa-Hill Laytoa-Hill air force bass road. Mr. Black's enclosed delivery ear SeaPage t, Cohsma 1 Ogden Chief Nabs Suspect In Brutal $10,000 Holdup : "I Was just tacky and stumbled across it," the deputy said. After Ms walk across the field and lonely roads, Mr. Black staggered stag-gered Into his store, the Wise-Way market at Sahara Village. ' His face was dripping blood and he half-stumbled as he came in the door. The store's butcher, Otto Achenbach. Achen-bach. rushed to catch the tottering grocer. The dirty so-and-sos tried to kill me," Mr. Black stammered. "Maybe they did but I'm still alive." Emergency Medicine Crew Mr. Achenbach and the clerks In the store carried Mr. Black to the office in the back of the store and settled him in a chair. An emergency medical crew from the Hill air force base responded re-sponded to the call and Mr. Black was rushed to an Ogden hospital. Highway blockades were thrown mi lmmariiar.lv mi all maid. ConMnaed from Page One was fauna aeae the- haystack by officers, His bloodstained hat was lying some 15 feet from the ear, and the scuffled ground Indicated that the grocer had fought with his assailants before they pumped three bullets into bis back. . - Cash fee HID. Checks ' The 'robbery occurred between and S pjn. Thursday. Mr. Black, as is his custom, went to the bank In Layton to get cash to take care of the Hill air base pay roll checks. One of the last persons to see ' Mr. Black before the holdup was ' Maragert Lock, cook at Nellean'a cafe in Layton. "He was laughing and Joking as be always does," she said. Bhe said that it was a habit of Mr. Black's to stop In at the restaurant with the pay roll money before returning return-ing to bis store. 1 couldn't say for sure that he had the money with him," -she explained, . "but I do remember that he el ways' came into the cafe with a money sack en pay days . and laid. it oa the counter.'' After questioning cloee friends of Mr. Black, Davis county authorities author-ities believe that the grocer was the victim of a hitchhiking ruse. "One of the bandits wss probably prob-ably waiting on the sidewalk when Mr.-Black came out of the cafe and asked him for ride to Ba- hare Village," a deputy said. "Mr. Black is the kind of fellow who finds it hard to turn down a man." Continuing, the theory of the brutal robbery la that two accomplice accom-plice followed the Black car In a yellow convertible and helped .the lane hitchhiking bandit overpower Mr. Black. Lxry to Fbkl Car ' Deputy Bennett, who found the gi acefe car' tn a matter of mln- - utes Thursday afternoon, said that tb robbery must have been the work e rnn familiar with the Ogden and 14211 air. base terrain. Be said the ear was hidden In a . secluded spot where It could have goaa undiscovered for days. big out of the Ogden area. However, How-ever, sheriff's deputies said that the bandit probably had "at least a half hour's heed start" They estimated that it would have taken the wounded grocer at least SO minutes to stagger to the store and give the alarm. Mr. Clack was robbed of approximately ap-proximately 110,000.-At the First National bank In Layton he had received $6000 In $20 bill. 13000 In $10 blOs and 1000 in $5 bills. Authorities believe that the bandits ban-dits had "cased" the grocery and Mr. Black for soms time. It la Mr. Black's habit to bring from $10,000 to $18,000 In currency to take care of HiU air base pay roll check. However, the, pay roll Is usually on Friday, but payday was set ahead to Thursday this week because of Armistice day. - With the roads blocked and all . law officers In neighboring states alerted, authorities still bad very .little to go on Friday as they pressed the search for the bandits. From Information gleaned from Mr. Black In a semiconscious state, authorities gathered that the hitchhiker was about H years of age. - Mr. Black also eald something some-thing about a "brown coat.' , |