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Show ISUSPECTED ROBBERS ARE HELD FOR TRIAL Frank Anderson, alias George Dwy-er, Dwy-er, J. E. Bauer, and who is also known as Fred Wagner, and John Ryan, who, it is said by Sheriff James H. Sanderson, San-derson, are charged with robbing the Gunnison Valley Bank on the morning morn-ing of January 3rd, were bound over to the District court at Manti last Saturday, Sat-urday, following a three-day hearing hear-ing before Justice of the Peace Alfred Allred. ' Bonds in each case were set at $5,000. The men are being held pending the trial before the District court. During the trial a volume of evidence evi-dence was introduced and the three days were taken up with evidence introduced in-troduced by the prosecution. C. M. Edwards, county attorney, prosecuted the accused at the preliminary hearing, hear-ing, while Lewis Larsen of Manti represented rep-resented the three accused men in the defense. The crime for which the three men have just been bound over, was committed com-mitted at the Gunnison Valley Bank abount two-thirty in the morning of January 3rd. As will be remembered, the vault used for storing records was blasted. Dr. S. S. Kunz, who, with Mrs. Kunz. was occupying quarters above the bank, was awakened when the blast exploded. Dr. Kunz im-1 im-1 mediately gave an alarm and soon af-iterwards, af-iterwards, Ira Overfelt, Marshal Tolles- trup and Fred Jones were on the trau. The alleged burglars were traced north and finally located hiding in a haystack just south of Levan. They were routed and when being placed under arrest, John Ryan was acci-dently acci-dently shot in the abdomen. The injured in-jured man was taken to Provo for treatment and it was not until his partial recovery thathe was able to I appear for a preliminary hearing. iRvan. it is said, is still suffering from Ithe bullet wound. The wound was i accidently inflicted when one of the officers of-ficers attempted to disarm Ryan. Witnesses at the hearing were Ira Overfelt, cashier for the bank which . was broken into, F. H. Jones, manager mana-ger of the J. C. Penney Company in j Gunnison, Marshall Tollestrup of this city. Owen Taylor, garage owner of Levan, Frank Hudson, service station manager at Nephi, Deputy Sherriff Lewis Garrett and Police Officers Roy Nielson and George Goble of Nephi. The various witnesses told of following the trail from Gunnison and of passing pas-sing a car supposedly carrying the robbers. rob-bers. The pistol, which vy; found in the snow close to where the robbers were concealed in the haystack, was identified as one tallving exactly I with that taken from the bank. A heavy sledge hammer was also found. ! together with a bag containing a drill and other articles that would be used in robbery work. No definite date has been set for the trial of the three men charged with the burglary, but County Attorney Attor-ney Edwards believes that a date will be set for some time in March. Gunnison Gun-nison Valley News. |