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TWO GERMAN WARPRISONERS FLEE(Continued From Page One)trousers. Kostaniak carried a barracks bag containing a German Army sergeant’s uniform. The uniform can be identified by two stars ■ on the shoulders.The escape is said to have occurred between roll call at 6 a. m.,Monday and 2 o’clock on Monday j afternoon. The men are said to have escaped through an eight-foot, barbed wire stockade surrounding! their camp, along the Emmitsburg road, south of Gettysburg. Police throughout the state were notified of the escape by the State police teletype system on Monday afternoon at 3:17 o’clock.Every clue Oi report reaching Army or State Police headquarters was being tracked down and patrols on all roads were instructed to maintain extra vigilance through the night because it is believed the Germans are hiding out during the day and traveling afoot after dark.Reports, none of which has brought about their capture, had the prisoners in the vicinity of York Springs, in the Harrisburg area, in York and in Baltimore.Sheriff John E. Millhimes reported he saw two men, wearing denim overalls, disappear into woodlands hear York Springs at about midnight on Monday as he drove along * road near York Springs. Army guards and State Police immediately Investigated but found no trace of the Nazi soldiers.It was unofficially reported atYork that the two men applied at the rear of Ted’s place, 108 North George street, Monday night, for food. The occupants of the restaurant, this story said, were unaware of the escape of the prisoners, and merely stared at the men. Theprisoners immediately left thescene.It was also rumored at York that two men, who might have been the Prisoners, had attempted to obtain an automobile ride to Harrisburg.In Baltimore, city police and FBI men took up the search when two men were reported to have Jumped pom a southbound Western Maryland Railway freight train near Frederick avenue and Brunswick street, in the western section of the2 T . ®ne man. discovered in the •cuuty, was detained for a time but as released after questioning.. Joseph Wallace, chief inspector of police in Baltimore, said thatr'try policeman in the city hadwen given a description of the two escaped prisoners and ordered to mto custody any person who csembles them. Especial vigilancewas ordered in the Southern, Southwestern and Central districts to prevent the prisoners, should they go to Baltimore, from reaching the waterfront.Baltimore police said that a resident of the city had informed them that he had seen two men leap from the Western Maryland train at the Frederick avenue crossing, yesterday at 6:15 a. m. He said the freight was headed to Baltimore from Gettysburg.One report said that the two prisoners were given a ride in a car traveling east on the Lincoln highway, being picked up about three miles from Gettysburg. State police stopped motorists throughout this area and searched automobiles as they systematically combed this section.The war prisoner camp was set up last month near Gettysburg to permit a group of German prisoners to help with the harvest in ! Adams and this section of York • county. The Army Third Service Command in Baltimore said at the time it was established at the request of local authorities in Gettysburg and the request was cleared through the War Manpower Commission.ADAMS COUNTY BIRTHSA son was born, yesterday, at the Annie M. Warner hospital, Gettysburg, to Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Baker. Taneytown R, D. 1.Two Persons InjuredLevere Markle, eight-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M Markle, Thomasville R. D. 1, suffered a fracture of the right wrist when he fell from a binder, Monday. The injury was treated at the Annie M. Warner hospital, Gettysburg. Allen Bollinger. 49, Taneytown R. D. 2, was treated at the hospital vesterday for a deep laceration of the right hand, received when the member caught in a hay loader.Additional Charge LaidThomas Kimmel, Dover R. D. 3, who was lodged in the Adams county jail during the week-end on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating drink, was charged today with driving without an operator’s license. The information was laid by State police before Justice of the Peace Robert P. Snyder,Gettysburg.Gettysburg Resident FinedAl Frock, Fifth street, Gettysburg, paid a fine of $5 and costs before Justice of the Peace John H. Base-hore. Gettysburg, yesterday on a charge of drunkenness and dis-orderly conduct. He was arrested on Monday by Officer Lloyd E. Wlsler. of the Gettysburg: uolice department.
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Hanover Evening Sun
Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 05, 1944
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