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CLERK TRICKS STORE BANDIT, SAVES MONEYLone (* ii 11 m a n “Short-Changed” by Quick Thinking EmployeROBBERIES LINKED!An alert young clerk worked a “short change” trick on a bandit who tried a holdup at a downtown cigar store early today.By his cool thinking the clerk, jJoseph Auteri, 18, of 147 SouthNinth street, handed over onlyI §2.80 in bills and coin* and thussaved $10 in the cash register,| Auteri clerk* at the Star Cigar store , operated, police Haid, bv James Tripodi, at 13G North Sixth street.A young man entered the tobacco shop at I a. m. this morning and ordered a pack of cigarettes. As Auteri was filling the order, the bandit poked a ‘ black'1 revol* ver across the counter and ordered the clerk to “clean out the cash registe r\“Auteri fumbled jn the drawer and pulled out the $2.50, the hall dollar in pennies, leaving the rest of the money in flu* till. The gunman: his face partly concealed by a felt hat pulled down over his eyes, then backed out of the store and fled north on Sixth street to-I wards Washington, j The holdup was much in tfusty le of an attempt made only 24 hour* before to rob Agosto Biilia, j South street grocer, who balked the bandit who threatened him with a pistol by throwing 20 cents worth of bologna in his face and putting the gunman to flight. Police said the two robbery tries may be connected.
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Steubenville Herald Star
Steubenville, Ohio, US
Sat, Nov 26, 1938
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