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Show 'YEGGS' HIT PENNEY tlundreds of dollars bonus dolla s its employes had earned were stolen and the basement safe of the new J. C. Penney Store in Sugar House was burned by burglars burg-lars working the wee hour? of last Friday, police reported. Apparently someone hid in the store before closing time, officers surmised, and broke his acetylene- torch bearing compatriot into the place some time after 2 a.m. The door nearest the D & RG railroad tracks had been forced open from the inside, and officers offi-cers said the welding-cutting equipment was then hauled in, the door closed, and the yeggs went to work. They were amateurs, police said, for they attempted to blaze their way into the safe from the front door through chilled steel bars and case hardened rods. Professionals would have sought safe entry through bottom, rear or sides, officers said. However, their attempts there failed to yield results, although they damaged the safe irreparably. The would-be cracksmen then scurried around and found many envelopes containing, in cash money, the Christmas bonus monies each employe had earned " during 1954 Willard DeRose, night watchman watch-man privately employed by 40 Sugar House firms, said he passed by at 2 a. m., noticed nothing out of the ordinary, came by again in an hour or so, saw a light burning in the rear. However, inasmuch as Penney's is not one of his private clients and because of some previous misunderstandings with regular police, he made no examination, presuming the light might be the night custodian. Officers DeRose did, however, take the license number of a light car parked in the vicinity which was said to be bearing another an-other car's license plates. Police are checking a follow-up angle there. A second burglary, that of Reed's Rexall Drug store at 2015 East 27th - South, plagued Sugar House this week. Using a burning torch, the yeggsmen cut a chain on a double freight door, entered the establishment establish-ment Sunday, and fled after obtaining ob-taining two cameras. |