| Show I I I I I I K NI 1 J J t y J Yi ar MM I 1 I 0 Persistent Thieves Steal Whiskey Tools Cash in Three Kamas Visits Thieves were busy three nights in a row in Kamas this his week On Friday Saturday and Sunday nights there were break Sheriff George Fisher Marshal Elmo Atkinson and officials from Salt Lake are investigating the r robberies Friday night the new liquor store at the Stevens Motel operated since Dec 1 by Milton Stevens was damaged but no entry etry was made as the robbers were apparently frightened away Saturday night they returned to the same place and escaped with at lea least t two cases of whiskey Sunday night a crew broke into the Kamas Valley Lumber Lumber Lumber Lum Lum- ber Company and took about worth of tools They also tore the telephone from the wall of a pay booth outside the lumber company's store and took the change from the coin box Glass in the window of the liquor store was broken Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- I day night the padlock hasp was hammered and an attempt had been made to wed wedge e the door open but the place was lot ot entered Mr Ir Stevens facetiously remarked to his wife wire Sunday Sunda y I morning that he had better g go goi 1 I i see It if the thieves had been back He lie was shocked to find that the they y had had and and this time they made a haul hall Entry was made by sawing through a narrow panel of the 1 wall of ot the building and the burglars burglars bur made their exit the same way They took a full case of Old Sunnybrook and probably a dozen lother other bottles Auditors from the State Liquor Commission were checking the loss Joss this week Stevens traced footprints in the snow which he believes Indicated two kept watch at the corner comer of the motel while a third entered the liquor store stole Loot Taken From Kamas Store The entrance Into the l Kamas amas Valley Lumber Store Sunday night was more simple simple- the burglars burglars bur bur- Kicked the glass out of the front door The place is lighted all night but if It the Intruders crawled about the store they would be almost invisible from the street They took power tools toots hand tools electric razors files tiles wrenches and smaller items carrying them out In III a wastepaper wastepaper wastepaper waste- waste paper basket which also is miss miss- tag lit About in in small change was taken from a cash register No attempt w was as ma made e upon the floor safe considered almost impregnable Im pregnable Robbed Before Tho The store was robbed of several hundred dollars about three years ago At that time three persons entered the store during business hours and two engaged clerks in conversation while a third emptied em plied the open safe Perpetrators of the gipsy trick were never captured A spokesman for the store which Is la operated by Ward Bias Blaz- yard zard said Sunday nights night's loss kiss lolliS lolli'S la le lenot lanot not covered by insurance Workmen had been engaged in r store front L la in stalling nailing an office for tor Manager mn I front door entered the building The remodeling had no effect on the robbery however It merely hastened the moving of the door opening to the center of the storefront store front I j Sheriff George Fisher said he believes belle the robberies were by byI byi I i two different groups Tho The method of operation he said varied con con- Specialists from Salt Sail Lake City took fingerprints at both the liquor store and the lumI lumber lum lum- bet ber stole stare I |
