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Officers Check New Lead In Evelyn Hartley CaseLA CROSSE, Wis. (UP) -Authorities refused to label a newdevelopment in the three-month-old Evelyn Hartley abduction case as a substantial lead” today, but said •'we're going to check it out.”Dist. Atty. John Bosshard* said investigators are checking on the former owner of a car that apparently resembles an auto used in the strange disappearance of the 15 - year - old baby sitter last October.Bosshard said his officers might go to Minneapolis to check on the car. formerly owned by a Duluth, Minn., man.We don't think it has any con*nection with the case,” Bosshard said, “but we’re going to check it out to make certain.”Until we have more details I don’t think wc could call it a substantial lead,” he said.Minneapolis authorities said the car, a recently re-painted 1950 Buick. was turned over to the University' of Minnesota by a student.Furnace Haunted?SHATTER, Calif. (UP)— Mrs. William Johnston said she was sure her furnace was haunted when she heard strange sounds coming from the basement.She went to investigate and stood frozen with fear as a grimy, hairy hand emerged slowly out of the furnace door. The hand was followed by a gas company serviceman who had gotten into the wrong house to fix a furnace.To Attend MeetingRepresenting the city of Waukesha'at the annual mid-winter meeting of the state advisor/* board,* American Automobile assoc.. Wisconsin division, wall be John Weber m. local committee chairman, and , E .C. Phillips. The meeting is being held in Racine and will have as its theme, “How to Improve Traffic Safety in Wisconsin.”The student said he had noted the car fitted a description of an auto witnesses said was used in the abduction.Meanwhile, officers at Duluth reported the man in question, whose identity was not revealed, was not working at his job the (lay Evelyn disappeared.Bosshard said he had • not received a final report on the alibi of the Duluth man.Student Owns CarMINNEAPOLIS (UP)—A car resembling the or.e believed used in the abduction of babysitter Evelyn Hartley and the alibi of a garage mechanic were the latest clues today in the three month-old investigation of the La Crosse, Wis., girl’s disappearance.University of Minnesota police had the car, which was bought by a student last December at Duluth. The student, Frank Elevitch, turned the car over to university authorities when he noted its description fitted that of the car allegedly used in the Hartley girl's abduction.Clinton Hanscomb, the university’s chief investigator, said Friday night he had found no evidence” it was the car used in the abduction last October.However, Duluth police report the30-year-old mechanic who sold the car to Elevitch wasn’t working the day Evelyn disappeared.John Bosshard, La Crosse County attorney, said the mechanic told Duluth police he owned the car from June. 1953 until he sold it Dec. 30. The abduction was Oct. 24.Bosshard said “we have determined there is some blood in the car,” but he would not elaborate. Bosshard said County Sheriff Ivan Wright may come here Monday to investigate the car and its former owner.Bosshard emphasized that the Minneapolis car, a 1941 Buick recently painted dark green, was one of several spotted by police that fit the same description.
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Waukesha Daily Freeman
Waukesha, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 16, 1954
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