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Show bete6toes tmwz mw.m. mmm ABIT SHOP is mm OBJECTIVE Prisoner Said to Have Con fessed He Intended ttf "Clean Out" Establish, ment on Main Street ROBERT DYKEXS, 44 yean of age, was captured last night by Detective Roy Larsen and C. W. Rosenkrantz as ho lurked in the doorway of th Miller Jewelry company. 115 South. Main atreet According to the police, Dykena confessed that he had planned to "clean out" the store. " " The two detectives hod responded t a ausplcloua character call In another part of the city and. were returning te the clty-when they spied Dykena. He attracted their attention by dodglnf Into a doorway as Patrolman J. C. Smith walked that way on hla beau The detectlvea turned their machine) about and Informed Smith of the mA hiding In the doorway. Dykena wag found to have thirty feet of rope Wound about hla waist and a half a brick In his coat pocket He la as 14 to have made an Immediate confee slnn of his Intentions to rob the store. Although he refused to state the puri pose 67 the rope. Tire police beliey that he la a "skylight artist" and roba stores by smashing the akyllghta and lowering himself Into the Interior on a, rope. He wore a prison made shirt and is said to have admitted that ha waa photographed at Leavenworth prison In Kansas, The detectives are Investigating his record and bellev that he la wanted In the East. Harry Allen, who resides In Gunnel court. Informed the police last night that he waa assaulted and robbed by two men Hunday night. They obtained U7.E0 from their victim and then beat him until he waa unconscious. He said that he was so severely Injured that he was unable to appear at the police atatlon until last night. Allen said the thuga were very dark com plexloned and spoke with a Southern accent. , |