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Show I S. L. Holdup Victims Visit Hero Chaperoned by Kidnapers '""y-'W''.! 'yuan mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmma I A. - t, , c ! t r 'kk v -? j ." " . ; ; fill VICTIMS OF TWO ARMED BOBBERS ' Gust J. Anton, left; Kenneth Lund and B. Dean Badham t ' BOBBERS TOOK HIS MONEY AND AUTOMOBILE Fred Mess was forced t give kidnapers long rid Boy Kidnaped at Ogden, Robbed of Money, Car Two Bandits Hold Up S. L. Market Clerks, Patrons and Escape With $114 An outbreak of major crime, including an armed kidnaping and robbery and the holdup of a j5alt Lake market, sent authorities authori-ties in Salt Lake City and three counties on the trail of law- breakers Thursday. Sought by authorities of Salt Lake, Weber and Utah counties were two armed men, one of whom posed as a hitch-hiking college student, stu-dent, who abducted and robbed an Idaho youth. Held by Salt Lake police were two men arrested for questioning in connection with armed robbery of the Superior market, S79 South State street A three-county hunt was under way Thursday for two armed men who kidnaped and robbed Fred Messe, 18, of Inkom, Idaho, a Tribune carrier salesman, late Wednesday night Young Messe, en route to Salt Lake City to visit friends while on a brief vacation from the University Univer-sity of Idaho, southern branch, at Pocatello, had stopped his father's car at the junction Just north of Ogden to reed highway signs when two men climbed Into the back seat of the sedan. The youth, son of J. H. Messe of Inkom, told police that one of the men carried a large suitcase with a white "A" painted on one side, apparently using the suitcase to make motorists believe he was a hitch-hiking college student. Both men showed automatic pistols pis-tols and ordered him to drive to Salt Lake City, young Messe said. In the city, they forced him to drive on to Camp W. G. Williams at Jordan Narrows, through the camp and along a road leading to Lehi. On the latter road, he said, they forced him out of the car, took $28 from him and drove off In the machine. Young Mesae wandered along the highway until he was picked up seven miles from Bluffdale at 4:05 a. m. by Deputy Sheriffs H. C. Holley and Lee Richardson of Salt Lake county. From the description given by young Messe, the officers said the victim had been forced from the car In Utah county. The car Messe was driving Is a gray sedan, Idaho license 1656, officers ssld. Young Messe gave these descriptions descrip-tions of the men: No. 1. About 24 or 25 years old, five feet 10 Inches tall, 180 pounds, wearing dark coat and hat, having hav-ing a dark mustsche and southern drawl. No. 2. Nineteen or 20 years old, five feet six inches tall, 140 pounds, wearing dark hat and plaid zipper Jacket Two 29-year-old men were being questioned inursaay oy sail Lake (Continued on Pare EIkM) 1 l Column Elshtl I TWO KIDNAPERS OF BOY HUNTED (Continued from Page One) City police after their arrest as suspects in the $114.33 armed robbery rob-bery of the Superior market, 679 South Stat street. The men are Robert William Savage and William Francl Quarry, both of whom, according to Sergeant Sherman Falkenralh, chief of the detective bureau, have police records. They are also being questioned regarding several recent beer parlor burglaries, police said. The suspects. Sergeant Falkenralh Falken-ralh said, will be put in a "show up" late Thursday for possible" Identification by the victims of the ' holdup. Two bandits, one armed with an automatic pistol, held up the store manager, a clerk and five customers cus-tomers at 6:20 p. m. Wednesday and escaped with 1114.35 from two cash registers. Kenneth Lund, 22, of 255 Eaut Fifth South street, clerk on duty at the cash counter, told police one of the bandit stopped Just Inside In-side the front door and the other went to the cash counter and ordered or-dered a carton of clgarets. .A-h' flM order, Mr-Tuna Mr-Tuna said, the bandit "revealcda pistol he had been holding under his coat and ordered the clerk to call the manager from the rear of the store. Gust J. Anton of 962 East Sixth South street, the manager, was summoned and took a place beside the clerk and a customer, Victor A. Peterson of 56 Gregory place. Following th bandit's orders, Mr. Lund was placing the cash from two cash registers in a paper sack when four girls entered. Tho girls Irene Kelkas, 17; Tula Papa-mlkolas, Papa-mlkolas, 17; Wllla D. Papamikolaa, 14, and Alice Flangas, 18, all of Magna were ordered to stand near the cash counter. Taking the money and the clgarets clg-arets he had ordered, the gunman Joined his companion and ran to an automobile parked on Seventh South street and drove east. Mr. Anton pursued them east to Fifth East street and north to Sixth South street before losing track of them. Meanwhile, R. Dean Badham of 243 Hubbard avenue, ave-nue, on duty in the meat department depart-ment at the rear of the store, was unaware of the hold-up until Mr. Lund informed him. It was the second time the store had been held up, Mr. Anton reported, re-ported, a bandit having robbed it in August, 1938, while the sam three employes were on duty. Loot at that time, he said, was S306. i ! |