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NAZI AREIN YORKThe two German prisoners of war | ’5* ho escaped eight days ago from ^ the prison camp at the southern j edge of Gettysburg: were captured this morning a sour 10:39 o'clock at' s farmhouse five miles southwest of York by troopers from the York state police substation, summoned. by a farmer who had been asked • for food by the fugitives. \The prisoners, apparently in good; health and excellent, spirits, were* taken into custody by the officers • without any show of resistance or ; any effort to escape when the police • appeared. ;One of the prisoners wore the«s5Sirc of Ziis German Army uniform ?when captured. Neither wore the ’ Dlae denim, overalls described as j their garb in first reports of the ? escape. They were wearing brown ? and olive drab trousers and shirts jwhich they said they had since lesv- ! ing Gettysburg. jTurned Over To Army . | The prisoners were taken to the r York state police substation where f they were met by a special agent of \ the Federal Bureau of Investigation j who had been working cut of York j on the escape. The Gettysburg [ camp was notified by telephone and i police at York said they understood | guards were being sent from here ;to York to take the men Into cus- :**tody. The FBI told. The Gettysburg ; Times this noon that the men were;v.;if^rr.pf^..rv»»r t.ct m;liTj?ry-offr^fgH - *The capture was mace in Spring i Garden township four and a half lt;to five miles west of York and south i of the Lincoln highway. The farm- ; house is located near Indian Rock i cam. IftSgt- Lloyd B. Gibbs, a former j resident oz York Springs and grad- j uate of Gettysburg high school, IXTnow stationec witn me state ponce j at- York, told The Gettysburg Times j this morning that the prisoners were j detained by a fanner who had been f tipped off by police Monday eve-1 ning. that the fugitives were hi the I vicinity. The officers found the j prisoners in the back yard of the | farm house. The capture was mace !9without any difficulty. jApparently food was used by the [ {Please Turn to Paee 5) \
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 11, 1944
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