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Show . 1? f t ? - ) . , ... : I , V ; 1 r .... . 1 SUSPECTS APPREHENDED Patrolman Joe Benson and Curtis M. Shields with one of two men apprehended near Cove Fort Tuesday morning and believed involved in the robbery of a Springville service station a few hours earlier. The one man ran from the car but failed to escape over the high wire fencing along the intertsate highway. Patrolmen detain pair believed involved in station robbery Two men believed responsible responsi-ble for the robbery of Ned's Phillip's 66 Service Station on North Main , early Tuesday morning, were apprehended at about 5 am., on Highway 1-15 approximately two miles from Cove Fort. According to a report from the Springville service station attendant, Harry Hutchings, 24, Provo, two men entered the station at about 3:10 a.m., and asked for gas and a quart of oil. They followed him into the station office, v presumably to pay and held him up with a .22 automoatic pistol. They rifled the till of approximately $100. After tieing Hutchings with a cord in the back room, the men left. The attendant later worked loose and called the Springville police describing the car as a blue oldsmobile. The ! men, he said were about five feet nine or ten inches tall and one was blonde, the other, dark. When highway patrolemen Joe Benson and Curtis M. Shields stopped a blue oldsmobile oldsmo-bile near Cove Fort, one man . ran from the car but could not escape over the highway wire fencing. The other man made no effort to resist the officers. The men were taken by the highway patrolmen, to Beaver, and Tuesday were awaiting the I arrival of Police Chief Ashley Graham and Officer Dan Barton, Bar-ton, who left Tuesday forenoon j planning to bring the two to Springville, for further investi- ' gation. Ironically, one of the two men apprehended was carrying a rifle identical to the one which was used in the assassination assassi-nation of President Kennedy, just three years ago Tuesday. |