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Show S. L. Bandits, Surprised by Prowl Gar pAt-HoldupEscape-Police-After-Ghase WATCHING BANDITS FLEE EMPTVeHANDED WAS JUST PART OF THEIB JOB Duane Simons, left, and Dick (Jolburn, clerks at the Stat pharmacy I ' .... n-v -c - J'.'VeeWeueeeaaea"ew' jji-.amani aon. ' . , JT i v'- v f. " ' k V .J" " v s :" - ; ) - Store Stickup Auto Abandoned in Street Here An abandoned automobile Wednesday Wed-nesday was regarded as a possible "lead" on four armed bandits who tried to hold up the Stete Pharmacy, 1701 South State street, Tuesday night. Isspector O. B. Record found the car early In the morning at West Temple street and Broadway. It bore Idaho license plates and tallied tal-lied with description of the bandit machine in that it was mud spattered. spat-tered. The bandits entered the store bout :30 p. m. and ordered O. W. Bauman, manager, and three clerks to "stick 'em up." Instesd, Mr. Bauman dared gunfire gun-fire and ran for a cellar door, hoping hop-ing to reach a telephone. Escape After Chase The gunmen were surprised snd fled, bopping onto a waiting automobile auto-mobile in which a companion was t the wheel. Meanwhile. Patrolman Harry Pol-lei, Pol-lei, driving a prowl car, had rounded round-ed a corner and saw the holdup. He chased the bandit car, but it got away. The bandits fled south on Stste street Patrolman Pollei said the car was a 1928 or 130 model sedan, gray or dark green, with license numbers num-bers obscured by mud. Bandits Described The clerks on duty were Dick Colburn. 18. of ISO First avenue; Duane Simons. 14, of 1023 Blaine street and Eldon Walton. 17, of 363 East Seventeenth South street. They and Mr. Bauman described the men as dark, short snd well dressed, all apparently of foreign birth. One man had a ruddy complexion. com-plexion. The gang may be the same that recently staged a holdup in Denver. 1 thtir descriptions tallying, police said. Daniel Padilla. 25. was arrested Coalnu1 on PaE Sintl (Column Onal . HIS DASH TO PHONE ROUTED GUNMEN O. W. Bauman... Not overawed by guns I BANDITS FOIL POLICE CHASE ( Continued from P&t On ) early Wednesday on suspicion of automobile prowling. ' He waa apprehended in the 600 block on West Second South street, where a parked car belonging to Jack Gregory, 1M Meade avenue, was looted of a blanket Wendell H. Dean, 28, waa held by police Wednesday on charges of shoplifting at a downtown store. Police were investigating Wednesday Wednes-day the reported theft of 11 radios, valued at mors than $400. allegedly stolen from the storeroom of the Western States Radio company, 20 South West Temple street by thieves who gained entrance during the night through a rear window. Detective Fred Lee said a truck or car apparently waa used by the intruders to cart away their loot Investigation was being continued Wednesday by Detectives Lsstsr Wire and William Eggleston. Tony Guevara, It, of 41 West Eighth South street, wss In custody of O. H. Peterson, parole agent of ths state industrisl school at Ogden, following his confession to Salt Lake City detectives late Tuesday of three burglaries snd numerous petty crimes. Guevara, a parolee from the Institution, In-stitution, confessed he looted the home of C. Iwata, 291S South Second West street, on November ; admitted ad-mitted he looted ths home of Vern Rampton, Syracuse, Utah, and the . burglary of the home of J. C. De-cinco, De-cinco, 147 South Seventh West street. In addition, police said the youth confessed 11 car prowls and theft of six women's purses at various times from the lavatory of the Eagles Tavern, 404 South West Temple street |