7 SLOT MACHINES TAKEN IN EARLY HOURS THURSDAY

Apparently timing their operations with the induction of new police officers, robbers entered the Eagle pool room and Herb Carlson’s early Thursday morning and took seven slot machines.

The thieves entered the Eagle by way of the back door and moved four slot machines and a quanitity of merchandise to a truck. They moved on to Carlson’s place, where entrance was made through the rear of the barber shop and took three machines. Nothing else was missing in the place, Mr. Carlson said.

The city street cleaner observed the flat bed truck moving from place to place with coverings over the loot. Unaware of the mission of the men, but slightly suspicious, he informed law enforcement officials. That was about 3 o’clock in the morning.

Sheriff Robert Ellersick responded immediately and an investigation is already under way. Proprietors of the places robbed expressed the belief that the men who did the “job” had spent at least a portion of the previous day in their places to get the “lay of the land.” The theory was presented that they may have hid in the places awaiting the early morning hours to commit the robbery.