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Show 1 Trapped by Burglar Alarm HELD AS BURGLARY SUSPECTS Joe Mahoney, left, and Jim McCarty Downtown Store Bandit Linked To Second Holdup by Victim Police said Wednesday they had linked Cecil R. Wright. 28, confessed con-fessed robber, to a second holdup in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, two alleged burglars were under arrest, caught in the act of prying open a game machine after an A. D. T. alarm sounded at the Taylor pharmacy, 780 South West Temple street. Wright, charged with robbery Saturday at the National Dollar store, 245 South Main street, was Identified by Gus Papas as the man who locked him up and robbed him at his grocery at 13 West South Tempi street November 1, police said. Papas assertedly picked Wright out of a lineup of prisoners. Papas and a customer, Mrs. Amy Cardwell, 130 West South Temple street, were locked in a back room while th bandit and a companion took 112 50 from a drawer. Wright told police his roommate, Paul Johnson, 19, also under arrest, did not take part in th Papas robbery. Wright, in a written confession, also absolved Johnson in the National Na-tional Dollar store holdup, saying Johnson merely walked into the store with him. Complaints charging Wright with th National Dollar stor robbery and Johnson with receiving stolen property were on file in city court The two were expected to be arraigned ar-raigned during the day. Johnson allegedly received from Wright $ of the $50 taken from the Main street stare. missed again and the guard fired. Despite the escape attempt and the sentence of "not less than five years." the pardons board terminated terminat-ed Wright's sentence on July 1, 1933. He served less than four and a half years. Following Is Wright's criminal record, according to police, apart from his Utah prison term: Arrested at Sacramento. Cftl., May 3, 1927, on vagrancy charges. Arrested at Seattle May 30, 1927, on burglary charges. Arrested at Seattle June 3, 1927, on burglary charges. Sent to Washington state reformatory reform-atory on burglary charge. Arrested for investigation at Fort Worth, Texas, then released. The burglary suspects arrested at the Taylor pharmacy were booked as Joe Mahoney. 39, no address, and Jim McCarty, 40, who, police said, took a room recently at th New Salt Lak hotel. Four colic officers and two merchant mer-chant policemen of the A. D. T. system found th pair in the rear of the store, police said. Cash registers reg-isters had been rifled of $2.40. The meager "haul," police said, was th result of caution on the part of the pharmacy, which had been robbed before. Police said they found the entrance en-trance door to the store unlocked, indicating that th burglars lisd entered by picking the lock. McCarty Mc-Carty is reortedly out on S10O0 bond from Morgan county. Three boys were surprised in the act of robbing the Taylor pharmacy June 25, after the A. D. T. alarm nounded. E. P. Schmitt, proprietor, surprised a burglar in the store July S and fired a pistol at the intruder as he fled. - Byron C. Offer, 25, was -booked by police Tuesday on charges of grand larceny as th result of the alleged theft of a fur coat, valued at 1130, belonging to Mrs. Vern F. Harris, 324 Sixth East street, from th Rendezvous at Hotel Utah Monday Mon-day night Police reported that Offer allegedly alleg-edly took the coat from the booth occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Harris. Mrs. J. A. Kimball of Stratton apartments, 49 Fourth East street, reported to police that when ahe left her apartment for 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon a burglar entered en-tered the apartment by ascending a fir escape, took a handbag containing con-taining 15 from a dresser drawer and left via the apartment front door. Waa Released Wright, records revealed, had been turned loose from the Utah prison by the state board of par-dona par-dona before a minimum sentence imposed by Third district court had been served. Wright, as Jack Hardy, was sentenced sen-tenced to not less than five years for taking part in a robbery at the Murray Stat bank January 10, 1929, in which $674 was taken. William James and George Funk were convicted in the same case. Wright entered the state prison February 1, 1929, and 18 months later, on August 1, 1930, attempted to escape. He lost his right eye in th attempt, at-tempt, being struck by buckshot from a guard's gun. Wright, with a denim rope taken from th prison overall factory and a grappling hook attached, threw the hook at the east walL It missed and th guard ahouted a warning. He tossed th hook a second time. Burglars who jimmied a basement window at the home of N. Guss, 850 Sixth East street, Tuesday night, ransacked atf drawers and closets in th horns and took $10 and a woman's compact, polic reports Wednesday said. |