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Suspect is soughtin boy’s abductionNANSEMOND, Va. (AP) -Police in two states today sought a man with a history of sex crimes after a 13-year-old boy who was held eight days in a wooden box was found byrabbit hunters.‘‘If it hadn’t been for four rabbit hunters, I doubt if anyone ever would have found the boy,”.said Police Sgt. S. B. Chapman.The boy was discovered Friday in a large wooden box buried in the ground. Police said be had been kept chained and bad been sexually assaulted.Richard W. Ausley, 32, a Portsmouth carpenter and aPackel objects to proposal for elective officeHARRISBURG (AP)-Attor-oey General Israel Packel has objected to a proposal by two western Pennsylvania legislators that would make his $27,-500 post an elective office.Sen. John N. Scales, D-West-moreland. and Sen. Robert B. Fleming, R-AIlegheny, plan this week to introduce legislation for a constitutional amendment that would remove the position rf the state’s top law officer from the appointive powers of the governor.“My preliminary, reaction,” said Packel, “is that the attorney general should not be an elective officer. I think the office of attorney general should be one viewed with great reprison parolee, was named in warrants charging him with abduction and sexual assault. Ausley was being sought in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina,but had not been found earlytoday.Police said Ausley, paroled in 1971 after serving a prison term on a similar charge, was an “accomplished woodsman” and might have fled into the vast Dismal Swamp, a 300-square-mile area of heavily wooded swampland in the two states.Chapman described Ausley as “armed and very dangerous.”Four rabbit hunters told police they were at the dead end of a logging road in a remote area Friday morning when they saw a boy’s head suddenly rise up out of a six-foot mound of earth.Police said the boy began crying, then explained he had been kidnaped by a man whopicked him tip on a Portsmouthstreet and asked him if he wanted some work helping move furniture.The boy had a chain attached to his left leg and the chain was secured to a nail driven in the side of the plywood box.The box was covered with earth and leaves and contained various survival items, including food and water.The boy told police he hal been beaten and sexually assaulted repeatedly in the eightdays he was held prisoner. He was released to his parents aften treatment at a local hospital for a broken nose, a broken ' tooth and facial injuries. His name was not made public.
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Monessen Valley Independent
Monessen, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jan 22, 1973
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