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Show I SUSPECT BANDIT PAR M JAIL Draper Girl Shot, in Serious Condition; Spinal Cord Severed SALT LAKE. Vre U. -Miss Rovl-ance Rovl-ance Fitzgerald, 19, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Fitzgerald nf Draper, wae shot by bandits on the DrapSI roadway Salurdny nlglit while being 1nken to a daneo by Rodney Cushln nf Sandy In bin automobile fh" WM tnken to the L t. 8 hospital where shn Is reported as In a critical condition, condi-tion, the bullet having BevSfSd her spina cord. Descriptions of the bandits ban-dits have been Bent broadcast throughout through-out the stato by the peace officers. Two suspects have leen arrested on the Rlvcrton road and others at Bait Lake. The shooting Of Miss Fitzgerald came as the aftermath of a night of terror caused by bandits armM with revolvera and rifles. The Essex sedan last known to havs bejn in the possession pos-session of the thug was recovered front a mud hole near West Jordan -with tli" tread of a new tire completely complete-ly worn off. TRACT! D.YMMTS Officers traced the tracks of two men that had left the car to nn abandoned aban-doned cabin on the Btedlttati farm where the trail was lost. Four automobiles were stolen and two prfornteJ vrlth bullets by the bandits before the shooting of Miss Fitzgerald. A Chandler automobile was stolen from the residence of A. Anderson, 131 Second Bast Street, Saturday nltrbt at 7 30 o'clock. Later came the robbery of the general gen-eral store of Henry Bills at RlvertOJl where the bandits secured $t00 In cash, to le followed shortly afterwards by the holding up of an oil station near South Jordan, In charge of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith. The police had hardl, i icelved the rt-port of that robbery when 'arl Rea-dicker, Rea-dicker, employee of the Grady Motor company, drb ing B Cole touring eat on the Provo rond. was held up and ; forced to transfer the Cole car for Anderson's Chandler the bandits driving driv-ing off in the COlfl TABUS ANOTHER CAB. IO. x. uur, ui vjiiiii, c 1 1 ivun-Provo ivun-Provo in an Essex sedan td 8S Ilia iather, who had met with an Rccident. passed the Cole and Chandlet while the transfer was being made, only to be overtaken a few moments later when the bandits opened tire at him. shooting off his ey -gl IS B and splintering splint-ering thf windshlHd or m- ttssex, after which they forced him Into the Cole car and continued their mad flight In the Essex. Shortly afterwards the bandits overtook over-took the Cushing akland and attempted at-tempted to hold up the oocUpants, which was followed by the ehootlng of Miss Fitzgerald |