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Show Suspect Is Held .... Utahn Storekeeper Is Shot, Beaten In Tuesday Robbery Still in a serious condition in the L.D.S. Hospital, where he wastaken by ambulance Tuesday, Tues-day, is the victim of an assailant who shot and beat him during the robbery of a general store at Utahn. William'Robb, known as William Wil-liam Strong, 45, Utahn storekeeper, store-keeper, was found in a serious condition in his store Tuesday morning, approximately 10 hours after a would-be customer custom-er shot him with a 22-caliber rifle and beat him about the head with the weapon. The cash drawer with $100 was missing from the store. According to Sheriff Arzy Mitchell, who left for Salt Lake today, to return Cloyd Ivie, 26, who was arrested in a Garfield tavern Tuesday on request of Duchesne county officials, Tvie is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with attempt to kill. Ivie was held in the Salt Lake county jail after being-picked being-picked up at Garfield. Ivie has been living in the Rock Creek area with his wife, who was contacted by the sheriff. sher-iff. She advised Sheriff Mitchell Mitch-ell that her husband had left home sometime Monday and had not returned. Mr. Robb was shot in the chest and suffered severe lacerations lacer-ations and bruises in the beating. beat-ing. He told investigators he was alone in his store Monday between be-tween 9 and-10 p.m. when a man pulled up in an auto to purchase some gasoline. Mr Robb was shot while checking the oil in the auto and the beating beat-ing followed. When he regained consciousness conscious-ness some time later he said he was in the rear of his assailant's assail-ant's automobile, traveling out of Utah. He said he grabbed Continued On Back Page I Utahn Storekeeper (Continued from 'age 1) the rifle and forced the man to drive him back to the siere, where he apparently lapsed into in-to semi-unconsciousness. A bloody and bent .22 ifle and the cash drawer from the cash register were recovered in Ivie's car by the Salt Lake county officials, Sheriff Mitchell Mitch-ell said. The accused man w ill be retained in the county jail at Duchesne until his preliminary prelim-inary trial is held. |