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Show Tropic . Robbery Attempt Jugs Trio Of Jack Rabbit Hunters i Willie the residents of Tropic slept peacefully Monday, about 4:30 a.m. robbers broke Into the Fair Deal Store, an accomplice sat in a car nearby. The Wallace Otts, who live across tho street from the store, heard the breaking of glass, got out of bed and saw a man enter tho front of the store via the broken window. They telephoned the proprle-tors Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Man-gum. Mrs. Mangum hurried to the store, to be confronted by a man standing outside the building with a shotgun. She asked him what he was doing thcro and he replied ' that ho was hunting jack rabbit's. A man Inside the building heard the conversation, saw his partner drive away in the car, so he left via a back door, and the other person cut short his conversation and ran around the other side of the building. Local officer Af ton Pollock trailed them north of town and went back for help. When he and Dean Wintch returned to tho place, they came out of hiding, onto the highway, probably thinking tho car was that of their accomplice. Sheriff George Middleton and Patrolman Otho Bulkley then arrived and arrested the two culpritslJ.aterlthe..one in . ... A. the car was found by means of a road block. Upon a quick examination of tho store it was discovered that they had taken candy, gum and cigarettes, also some change from the cash register. Sheriff Middleton took Al-vin DeLong, 27, Thurston Brown, 21, and David Olsen, 19, all of Cedar City, into custody and placed them In the County jail in Panguitch where they are being held on $300 bail each under second degree robbery charge filed before Justice of the Peace Harry Gardner by Mr. Mangum They will be tried before sixth district judge Vernon Erickson on the 28th of this month. |