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Show Principals in Holdup Case x v !? f , i - Jr f .. iv a ' 4a VICTIMS OF RUSH HOUR HOLDUP Delia Jensen, left; Opal Bingham a; wye isnjfTT.?y' . . - . I """"' . ' I ) v ' J l1 - ' NEW GLASS EYE DAMAGES ALIBI Suspect 'Identified' With Difficulties j Cecil R. Wright, 28. allegedly tried Monday to evade identification aa the bandit who robbed a cashier at the National Dollar atorc in a rush I hour holdup by removing his glass' eye. j But police were too smart for him. i They got him another tye and. I they reported, he immediately was recognized by his victim. i Wright was "wearing" his glass right eye when arrested Saturday night at First South and Main streets, a few hours after the holdup. hold-up. But when he was takes to ''show-up" ''show-up" Monday morning to be viewed by th cashier. Miss Delia Jensen, 2246 Eighth East street, police were astonished to see only an empty socket where bis glass eye should hav been. 1drntJf.rat.on' Delayed Becausa of his strange appearance. appear-ance. Miss Jensen was unable to identify Wright. Wright, known as Jack Hardy: when he "did time" in the state pris-ion, pris-ion, wh? re. incidentally, he lost his; jown right eye in an attempted es-1 j cape, wouldn't say what he did with the glaas substitute. I Police surmised he disposed of it (Continue! on Pace Seven I Column Five, CECIL R. WRIGHT Artificial optie provided NEW GLASS EYE ' DAMAGES ALIBI . i tCoutlmMd from Pas One! I in jail and bought him another, and , called Miae Jensen back. "I'm sure that's the man." shs , exclaimed. "Only he baa different , clothes on." Officers said Ruby Wardle, (0 West Malvern avenue, clerk at the store, identified Wright as ths man shs asked if shs could serve. Robber Takes $50 Llda Johnaon. 641 Coataville avenue, ave-nue, another clerk, aaaertedly aaid he waa the man aha followed from the store sfter the holdup. A recheck st the stors, 245 South Main street, showed the loss to be $50.97 and not $75, as firat reported. The bandit, ignoring crowda of shoppers, thrust a gun at Miss Jensen, Jen-sen, frightened her to the verge of fainting, grabbed the money and ran through the crowd. He menaced two shoppers who unwittingly got In his wsy and ea-caped ea-caped through the Main street door. When arrested. Wright had $22 DO. which he told Detectivea L B. Glf-ford Glf-ford and W. M. Rogers hs obtainsd from ssis of clothing. Ths officers said he waa unable to tell them where he made the aale. Has Crime Record Wright has a criminal record that began in 1R2V. police aaid. Aa Jack Hardy, he entered the Utah prison February 21. 1B20. on a robbery charge from Salt Lake county. On August 1. 1930. he attempted to escape by climbing the east wall and received a buckshot in the right eye from a guard's gun. The eye was removed. On July 1. 1933. his sentence wss termlnsted by the state board of pardona. Wright served a term In the I Washington etate reformatory In ' 1 1927 for burglary and in November, 1933. was arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, for investigation. |