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POLICE CHASE\itHOT TIPSIIESCAPE CASEIth‘antrlcopredmThe search for the two escapedHerman prisoners of war went Into its sixth day today as state, countyand I oral authorities here continued 11doggedly to run down every clue they receive on the fugitive Nazi* while the FBI pre« e« the earch over a two-state area sothneBtate police, Sheriff John E. Mill- rn hirnes and Chief of Police H 8. hlt; Roberts of l.ittlestown vohinteer civilians and 'ddler guards from ththe p-ison camp here searched for hours on two tips that led the au- tn thorltles to lower Adams county tirP»Chief Rollerts this morning told The Gettysburg Times, after searching in vain for nearly four hours in $1the Two Taverns section, that he trelieves the missing Germans were sighted near Two Taverns at dink by a youth who reported the incident to other bovs. The report did not reach authorities until nearly 11 o’clock Friday nightVFlee I rom YouthsRoberts said Calvin Krug was walking along the highway near Two Taverns when he suddenly tame face to face with two stocky ‘trangers, who fled from the road-o. bv trui rii annoared behind road -buildings at the sight of young Krug. They were swarthy and woreonly trouser*. Kruguaiirclt;bFciThe father of one of the boys wno heard of the Incident from Krug called Chief Roberts about 11 ^ o’clock The chief railed state po-lire here and the prisoner camp ^ Seven prison guards, Chief Roberts *,and five volunteei civilians pressed p the fruitless search in the darkness until 2:30 o’clock this morning ♦,While that search was underway a Sheriff MiUhlmes and Corporal C. \F Ternke of the state police were fdealing through brush and weeds t near a proj»erty, unoccupied for 20 a years, about tw'o and a half miles cl south of White Church in the White s Run section where berry pickers ereported they had heard unseen men conversing in a language that the r picker could not understate cOther ReportsaHours of ^.arching failed to locate the pair but the officers found j a sjiot m bushes near the abandoned home where boughs had been torn off small trees and brush tomake a bed under the tree*. The officers said the “bed showed signs of having been made and used recently. There was nothing to indicate that prowlers had been using the abandoned house, they said.crTeletype report* received here by the state police continue to carry word of clues being run down in other parts of the state. Friday i1 atternoon authorities in lower York lt;county checked reports the prisoners had been seen there.tt]
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1944
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