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Show Burglars Enter Residence Here, Remove Valuables Striking American Fork for the second time within a week, burglars entered the home of Walter B. Dev-ey Dev-ey Friday evening, ransacked drawers draw-ers and a penny bank, and got away with a wrist watch and other valuables. valu-ables. No clues were left to indicate definitely defi-nitely whether or not the second burglary had any connection with the entrance of the Alpine Motor company Monday night, but it was the opinion of city officers who investigated in-vestigated that the two "jobs" may have been perpetrated by the same person or persons. The Deveys discovered the burglary burg-lary Friday evening, after returning from Midvale about 8:30 o'clock. They had been away less than two hours Articles missing included an expensive wrist watch, a .22 caliber pistol, and electric shaver, small change from a bank, and fishing tackle. Drawers had been ransacked ransack-ed and the contents scattered. The intruders entered apparently by kicking out a basement window. Albert Birk, city peace officer, investigated in-vestigated the burglary Friday evening eve-ning Walter Durrant, sheriffs deputy, and Clyde Chestnut, city marshal, joined later m the mvesti-gation. mvesti-gation. In the Alpine Motor company burlary, $60 in currency was taken from tie till, Monday night. The large back door of the garage was forced. |