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Show DISCOVERS TRIO ROBSii VAULT THREE MEN WHO ESCAPE WITH $7,000 BIND AND GAG BOOKKEEPER Man Who Was Overpowered By Robbers Furnishes Description; No Indication of Auto Used By Yeggman Moab. Safecrackers blew the safe of the First National bank here Friday Fri-day morning and escaped with $7,000 after binding and gaging the booK. keeper. The robbery occurred shortly after 2 o'clock. H. J. Green, bookkeeper of the bank, heard the men at work and arose and went to the scene. He was attacked by the trio and bound and gagged effectively. The work appears to have been done by experts, soap and nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine having been used in blowing blow-ing the vault. It is thought that the robbers are still in this vicinity, as no trace of an automobile has been found. That there were three men implicated impli-cated in the robbery is certain, according ac-cording to the bookkeeper. Descriptions Descrip-tions of only two are available. One of the men is described as being be-ing thirty years of age and about five and one-half feet talk He was well built. The other is said to have been about 25 years of age and about 5 feet 10 inches tall. His manner indicated in-dicated that he was or had been at one time a cultured man. The telephone wires were not cut and as sooon as the robbery was discovered, dis-covered, reports were sent to adjoining adjoin-ing towns. Local authorities believe that the men are within a few miles of here in hiding as the apparent absence of an automobile almost eliminates the possibility at an attempt to leave the section. |