Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 1 | Coalville Man Held Here as Slot Machine Looter

f Crime Career Brief Was 1 i 7 rit Ii i t S S 4 F r V IT T ADMITS ADMITS' WHOLESALE LE THEFT OF COINS I I Vern Phelan Things are arc tough in Coalville Coalville Man Held Here As Slot Machine Looter Bad Times Blamed for Theft of of Devices Battered Games Cash Recovered Vern Vera Phelan 34 of Coalville had the simplest of explanations Friday when police asked him why he turned from the strai straight ht and narrow path of a laborer and went on a slot machine looting p spree Things are tough in Coalville he lie answered Phelan's arrest came about when a marble machine firm salesman saw him with his automobile loaded with slot machines Phelan assert assert- edly told the salesman he was employed employed employed em em- by another company handling handling han han- dung such devices and the salesman checked with the firm mentioned meanwhile taking the cars car's license licens number Learning Phelan was not an em em- the salesman informed po po- po- po Continued on Page Seven Column One I I 1 MACHINE lOOTER NABBED s tt Continued from Page One t who nho started a a. search for lor the thet Iville man t 1 had nickels 60 dimes several hundred sales tax taC tokens Itt i possession when arrested 1 late ate b. b hen en they found him the they y hed his car and found the L s but the machines were gone t Chelan helan led them to a trail leading Wasatch boulevard where he heed hew e k w wed ed them the battered machines tt r said he had taken them from yule me business houses nelan helan was expected to be turned r to Coalville authorities during day ay Moore 46 South State street t day day had reported to police that v en January 1 and 3 a prowler it 4 3 entered an unlocked door stole amily portrait a crystal ball t r ring ing ing and other articles from apartment eft of ot 20 from a aing 1 fag ing dock at the Interstate MoLines Mo- Mo Lines South Second West et yet was reported to police Frit Fri Fri- Fri Fri- t diamond ring was stolen from jt d home Mrs Leo Brandenburger 3 lEast East Ninth South street told ce Friday et Ie heft of tw two gallons ns of oil was Friday at a Utah Oil Reg Reng Re- Re 5 ng g company service station at i East Twenty-first Twenty South street three ree cases of automobile prowl- prowl were vere reported to police Friday 0 SUms tims and losses were A A. R. R en en n 1017 Second avenue electric 1 or and hosiery Mrs Frank O. O ymond Magna purse watch and 3 and Robert D. D ede 1036 Jefferson street blan blan- and md flashlight t Mth V th police holding Dean Richad Rich Rich- nd ad 15 of 1037 West Second South t ae Jet et for action of juvenile aur au au- r ties in connection with the glary December 20 of the West West- Cooperative association st it Second South street Mickey Inson 18 originally suspected of in the burglary walked of the city jail free Friday Po- Po said arrest of Dean had cleared key who had been held in jail jaile jaille le e December 28 thieves h eves teves followed a long trail to tok k kels ls in the Wasatch school 1155 sti st South Temple street during night breaking a window lead- lead to a court another window windowing Sing ing into a play room and tak tak- an office door off its hinges tock to tock tock ck the school office and tearay tear teara tearay a ay telephone off the wall Miss elyn R. R McCoy principal rethe re re- the burglary w