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Show Sugarhouse Bank Scene of Hold-up Salt Lake, Sept. 2S. More than $1,500 In currency was taken from tho vault and cash drawers of tho Sugor Banking Company Twolfth South near Eleventh East, at 12:30 o'clock today by a slnglo bandit, who entered quietly and startled Cashier Georgo A. Goff and Clifford I. Goff, bookkeeper, by a sharp "hands up" order. An automatic pistol clutched in the hand of tho bandit who was unmask cd was poked into tho faces ot tho two men and thoy wero ordered to walk into tho vault and stand with their hands up and their faces to tho wall. The robber then took the currency from tho till and tho safe, amounting to $1,525. No securities wero touched. Within n few moments after entering enter-ing tlio bank tho robbery had boon completed. Keeping tlio pistol leveled at tho backs ot tho Golf brothers, tho holdup slammed shut tho door of the, vault upon them and left the building. build-ing. No cluo ns to tho further movements move-ments ot tho robber has been obtained obtain-ed other than tho story of several persons that they saw two horsemen galloping cast on Twelfth South street at about tho samo hour. Tho men Imprisoned In tho vnult hammered at tho lnsldo of t:io heavy doors until u half hour later, tho raps wero faintly heard by persons passing pass-ing tho bank. From tho lnsldo ot tho vnult, the men told what had hap pened nnd shouted tho combination to tho vault. An attempt was mndo to open tho doors by tho uso ot the combination but tho bolts and plungers plung-ers had been Jammed by tho violence with which the doors wero slammed shut and would not respond. Finally Get Out At 1:10 o'clock, -10 minutes after they had been Imprisoned Georgo Goff succeeded In breaking tho lock from tho Inside with a heavy iron screw driver. Tho pollco wero notified by telephono nnd all available mounted officers, plain clothes men and detectives detec-tives Wero assigned to the case. Tho sheriff's ofllco was notified and deputies, depu-ties, with tho detectives and patrolmen patrol-men wero rushed to head oft tho approaches ap-proaches to tho canyons. According to Cashier Goff this at ternoon tho banlc was amply protected protect-ed with lnsuranco against robbery, with tho United States Fidelity and Guaranty company, of Baltimore, Cashier Goff said that depositors would not loso a cent through the, robbery. Search Being Made At 2:30 p. m. pursuing ofllcers woro continuing tho search south toward to-ward Holllday and tho Cottonwoods, taking step to guard tho entrances to those canyons. All tho detectives and plain clothes men hnvo returned to tho city excepting Detective Clove- land, Patrolman Conyr nnd Chauffeur Chauf-feur Malln who aro still out. Tho sheriff's forco Is also scouring t!.c country, nnd a party of deputies head, cd for Parley's canyon returned nf ter meeting automoblio parties from tho canyon who reported that no t har acters answering tho description of tho holdups hnd been met or seen in that direction. |