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Show JEFFERSON MERC ROBBED; SUSPECT CAUGHT IN NEVADA The Jefferson Mercantile store was robbed early Thursday Thurs-day morning, ihe second time in three weeks that a burglar.. ..has broken into the establishment establish-ment and made his getaway with between $20 and $30 in j change from the cash registers. regis-ters. This latest thief, however, was in no hurry and apparently not worried about being apprehended, appre-hended, as he too khis time about the pilfering and fed the inner man, a quart of milk and several doughnuts while he meandered from cash register to cash register regis-ter to pick up his change. Bud Whittaker, en route home from work about 3:30 a. m. Thursday, noticed that the glass door in the grocery department A transient giving the name of George Madden, address unknown, was arrested at CaV.-ente, CaV.-ente, Nev., about 10 o'clock Thursday morning, and placed in the Lincoln County jail at Pioche, where he is being held, for Beaver County officers. It was reported that Madden coi Jessed to robbing the Jefferson Mercantile Co. on three separate sep-arate occasions. He will be returned to Milford and probably prob-ably charged w'.th grand lar- ceny. |