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Show Clearing up Bank Robbery Mystery. Salt Lake City. The mystery of the robbery of the Commercial bank at Tooele, Utah, on June 7, when the cashier was bound and gagged and robbed of $9,996. seems to be clearing clear-ing up. Saturday George C. Higgs, who has been made cashier of the l ank since the robbery, and C. B. Walton, a real estate salesman of Salt Lake, were arrested, on the charge of being the robbers. The charge was made by S. I. Shafer, the cashier of the bank when the robbery occurred, who is alleged to have made i confession, declaring that the robbery was a put up job in which he and two other men were to share the money taken from the bank. Higgs and Walton, Wal-ton, it is said.- also confessed to participation par-ticipation in the robbery. |