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Show Ind. School Escapees Nabbed By S. H. Police At 3rd Robbery A triple robbery by two Industrial School escapees was nipped in the bud by two wideawake Sugar House policemen at 3:33 a. m. July 24. The police officers. L. C. Barrett and Willard De Rose, had been notified that the boys had escaped from the school and. acting on a hunch that the boys would come to Sugar Su-gar House, the officers were on the lookout for the escapees. A triple robbery by two Industrial In-dustrial School escapees was nipped in tin bud by two wideawake wide-awake Sugar House policemen at 3:33 a. m. July 24. The police officers, L. C. Barrett and Willard Will-ard De Rose, had been notified that the boys had escaped from the school and, acting on a hunch that the boys would come to Sugar House, the officers of-ficers were on the lookout for the escapees. When a call came over their police car radio from the dispatcher's dis-patcher's office that someone had seen a burglar in Brimley's Market, 601 E. 21st South, Barrett Bar-rett and De Rose raced down 21st South from 13th East and surveyed the store. They found a broken glass in the front door which, though only 2Vi feet wide and 1 foot deep, was the means for entrance for the burglars. burg-lars. Officer Barrett climbed though the opening while De Rose covered him from the window. win-dow. As Barrett walked to the rear of the store De Rose saw someone near the front counter. He tapped the window with his pistol, which drew the attention of both the burglar and Barrett. Barrett then covered the young robber with his pistol and ordered order-ed him out of the store for interrogation. in-terrogation. Under questioning De Rose learned that this was one of the escapees. The other had seen the policemen come and had run down 21st South to State street, giving himself up to a merchant policeman on that corner. De Rose saw the boy look north on Sixth East during questioning to a 1937 Pontiac parked about 50 feet from the store. The boy admitted that he and his campanion had stolen it from 1934 Douglas St. A paper clip was used by the boys to unlock un-lock the ignition. Both boys were very well dressed, so the officers asked them where they had stolen the expensive clothes.. They admitted admit-ted taking the clothes from the Specialty Cleaners, 1113 So. 7th East, just before driving to Brimley's Market. Their own clothes they had left at the cleaning establishment and across the street in the irraga-tion irraga-tion ditch. The stolen car was returned to its owner, George Miller. Clothes and money were returned return-ed to the Specialty Cleaners. The boys were returned to the Industrial School. |