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NAZI PRISONERS(Continued From Fage I) ..farmer to detain the men until the officers arrived.Had. Camp Raincoats] Hie prisoners had with, themj their, camp raincoats on which the • \ letters “?W were still in place. The letters did net appear on any ■ t of she clothing' they were wearing ■; when, captured. The prisoners were’not armed.I ■I!J They seemed in good spirits and . lt;smiled continuously In the York I •; police station.Their English was described by f . - the York officers as “poor and j( - little information, had been secured i{ ' about their movements since they * * escaped over the stockade early last j -• Monday morning. It brought on a j , two-state manhunt led by the FBI ] i ; with local authorities and state 1 »police feeing required to run. down ' steady 'stream of “tips*'' from j ] | nearly every part of this county j J Sand in many sections of the state.; ■ : They were described this morning j: !as being apparently in. good condi- | «ion. One was baclv in. need of [}1 a shave. The other's beard, wasI V—I very K*•light- j ?I Used Hideout I c! The prisoners, Thomas Kostaniak. f i ; 27, and Axel Ostermaier, 22, both J infantry sergeants in the German J *lt;before their capture, were: taken into custody by these state 'policemen from York: SergeantI Gibbs, CpL A. J- Swallnski. Pvt.. Leslie Jackson and Pvt. J. A. Tappe.I Police disclosed they had searched I that section Monday evening after j Justice of the Peace John P. j« ! Strickhouser, cf York New Salem, | -‘ reported he had come upon zwo j c 1 men answering the description of! the prisoners in a hideout along a | stream where he was fishing. ; £ • The search Monday evening was j * I fruitless. The farmhouse where the } j ; capture was made today was about j -] a mile and a half from the hide- j £ :out along the stream. j c\ The FBI said last week that thefti prisoners are not guuty of any. -• crime under international law and | c ; will not be subject to punishment f: for escaping from the camp here. 11,
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 11, 1944
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