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Show County Courthouse Burglarized; Damage Extensive The Iron County Courthouse in Parowan was burglarized sometime Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Havoc was raised with office equipment and structural facilities fa-cilities such as windows and doors, but early Wednesday actual losses were undetermined. undeter-mined. Little disturbance to files in the various offices was noted but damage to the building and property will be extensive. Entrance was apparently gained by jaming one of the lower floor office windows. Inside In-side file cabinets were broken brok-en open, doors were broken including in-cluding an accordion door in the clerk's office, and doors to vaults and important files were also damaged. Locked filing cabinets were riped open but filed contents in the cabinets were relatively undisturbed, it is understood. Every office in the building was apparently entered during the night, but investigation early Wednesday failed to reveal re-veal any substancial leads and county officers were busy trying try-ing to determine what losses had occured, if any. |