09 May 2014

Keeping Cool in Holdup - Bandit locks up six victims in ice box

Salt Lake's "cool" bandit struck again Saturday, locking five employees and a customer of a chain grocery store into a refrigerator after looting cash registers of several hundreds of dollars. The dapper gunman entered the Piggly Wiggle store at 1234 Eleventh East street at 7:20 a.m., shortly after the establishment had opened for the day, flourished a heavy automatic and lined the five employees up against a wall behind the meat counter with the calm announcement that "this is a stickup." In the store at the time were A. W. Small, manager of the meat department, 9652 South Ninth East street; Philip V. Harry, manager of the grocery department, 1466 Tenth East street, and three clerks, Sterling Hixson, 1390 Eleventh East street; Ralph Gibbs, 652 Second East street, and Odell Anderson, 1118 Sherman avenue. The gunman, after calmly crunching a lighted cigaret beneath his heel, ordered Mr. Small to accompany him to two cash registers in the establishment and to open the money containers...

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