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Show I Stiff Sentence , Handed Down To Car Robbers Arraigned before Judge Will Hoyt in the district court in Fillmore Fill-more Monday, the three young men who held up and robbed a Delta family of money and their cor Oct. 20 received a stiff sentence. sen-tence. Charged with the crime of robbery, rob-bery, the three were sentenced to 5 years to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary and were taken there Tuesday by Culbert Robison, sheriff, to start serving time. They were William Mc Gillivray, 19, William E. Solbrig, 20, and Harold Har-old Lee Roy" Franklin, 25. They admitted ad-mitted their guilt to the court. It was also revealed that all three had been in reform schools and one had served 3 years of a 5 - year sentence in Texas state penitentiary for armed robbery. The trio are the ones who held up James S. (Sib) Ross in Marjum Pass on the morning of October 20, took his wallet, stole his car, and at gun-point set Mr. Ross, wife and child, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ross, also robbed, afoot to make their way as best they could. Earlier the three had abandoned , a new sedan in the pass, where it had overturned, and they told ar-1 resting officers they had stolen the car a week before in Provi- dence, R. I. All three were caught that same day, the two younger in Milford, the eldest in Baker. Nev. The car and some of the money was recovered re-covered for Mr. Ross. The robbers were lodged in the Fillmore jail, lacking bail, by Jack Bennett, deputy de-puty sheriff, to await trial. |