Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-04-06 | Page 8 | Fail in Attempt to Rob Bingham Market

oo . FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO ROB BINGHAM MARKET Salt Lake, April G, -Police and sher, roads entering Salt Lake in an effort to capture three bandits who attempted at-tempted to blow the safe of the Bour-gard Bour-gard meat market in Bingham. At 1:20 o'clock Mrs. Jerome Bourgard. wife of the owner of tho market, who lives across the street awakened when she heard a noise In the store. She looked from her window and saw a man swinging a sledge hammer at the combination nob on the safe. Two other men were outside the store. She telephoned the police and a moment after she lifted the receiver from the hook the men outside the storo whistled shrilly. The man inside opened, the front door and ran with the others to an automobile standing a few feet from the market. The license plate had been either removed or covered with oil and the number could not be seen. The car is described as a small roadster. According Ac-cording to D. W. George, city attorney of Bingham, there is no such car own-ed own-ed there. It is believed to have been stolen from here. With one man at the wheel and tho other two standing on the running boards, the, machine raced out of town headed east. The machine had the headlights dimmed. B-uurgardV jowner at thoiraarkot, a branch shop and the slaughter house there, estimated last night that there was between $300 and ?500 in the safe.