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A-8[ P C 0 31 t 310 301 23 K IQiFEDERAL BUREAU (IF LMXSKGATION'TO mils DEPMMiLYT OF JUSTICEB. C.'ANTEDCKOftG fiAIKTNCR! altk illuj (|t^f UZlTiItESCAPED PRISONER OF WARTBl No. 4,405,523n11'-V8111inUl|liltHv,'lt;PflieMClI r.PcKiKiDESCRIPTIONPhotograph taken In 1943. Photograph taken Augustr 1943.Age, 26, born December 18, 1320, In Gemany; Height, 51114*1; Weight, 171 pounds; Eyes, blue,- Hair, brown; Complexion, fair; Sex, male; Race, white? Nationality, German; Education, high school; Civilian occupation, draftsman? languages, Qcrman and fluent English; Marital status, single? Scars and marks, acir oft left index finger, dimplea chin.'Georg Gaertner, a German Prisoner of War a Prisoner of War Camp at Deming, New Wexjco,saped on or abouty^eptember 21, lEWSjfrwnAny person having information which nay to immediately notify the Director of the Federal Justice, Washington, D. C», or the Special Agent i of Investigatfon listed on the back hereof which iiss1st In locating Georg Gaerincr is requested BurcaJ of Investigation, U* $lt; Department of n Charge of the Division of the Federal Bureau s nearest your ciLy.IDENTIFICATION! ORDER NO. 2099(over )Issued by: JOHR EDGAR KODVER, DIRECTORTHIS IS THE WANTED POSTERon Georg Gaertner, a German prisoner of war tvhu escaped on Sept.21, 1945, from a POW camp atDeming. Ringed at the top left is the date the nationwide bulletin was issued—-Jan. 15, 1947. Gaertner is still at large.Ofd Posters Never DiePOW Missing Since 194521,hisBy ROB LEVEY Tribune Staff Writer WHERE IS HE? CLtv Det. Late on the night of Sept, Charles Carter points to a 1945, four months after wanted poster, 20 yeai's oldcountry had surrendered, German soldier Georg Gaert-ner sealed the wall of the U.S. prisoner-of-war camp at Deming and vanished.Later, 21 lA years and twonow, that tells about Georg Gaertner, a prisoner-of-war escapee still sought by the FBI.IStnff pholo by Walter McUopalfl)wars Jater, his case is stillopen.It’s but one of 143—many ranging back to the 30s—that the' FBI has never solved and has recently started reinvestigating.On Display This yellowing rogues gallery is on display at city police headquarters. And it teils a fascinating story—often by innuendo—of the days when federal crime was mostly violent and desperate, and not a matter of tax evasions and civil-rights semantics.Georg Gaertner's case was red hot from the bp.ginning. but the nationwide FBI circular on him—true to the communications difficulties of the times—is dated Jnn. 15, 1047, nearly a year and a half after his escape.Considered Dangerous Gaertner was (and as far as the FBI is concerned, still is) considered armed and dangerous. And FBI Director John Edgar Hoover (he was Jjhn on posters then) provides a telltale sign of the grammar of the day with this interrupted infinitive: ''Any person having information which may assist in Gaertner's arrest is requested to immediately notify . . But nobody has.Wanted Longest Nor have they in the case of George Daum, who would now be ?1 and who has the distinction of being a men wanted by the FBI for the longest time (since Feb. llr 1933, as described on wanted flyer Number 7).The poster on Daum has photographs of charcoalAcross the deep capitals,top, in 3-inch-is the legend:“DANGEROUS BANK RUBBER/J a seeming guilty until proven-innocent heading that today has given way to wanted for questioning.Accused by Jury Daum. was accused by a grand jury n Seattle of holding up a bank there in Feb-r u a r y, - 1933, and escaping with ?4,000,Antonio Tavera, a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, is wanted still for investigation in the murder of a customs inspector at the Tijuana-San Ysidro, Calif., border on June 27, 1945,Tavera was “presumed to have fled into the United States, says the FBI poster. But, again, no one knows for sure.Fnr Jailbreak All the other “oldtimer”rnockups instead of the usual fugitives are wanted lor jail-mug shots, andfingerprints.provides no break and interstate flight toavoid prosecution.Possibly the most colorful oF the lot is Paolo Boon vino, a Sicilian native who apparently, look his last name too literally (good wine73) and got arrested for bootlegging in New York in 1932.-Buonvino, described as “hefty” in those days even at and 150 pounds, walked away from a work gang at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas into thin air after serving two weeks of his two-year sentence.Where Are They?Where could all these men have gone?The odds'are that they are either long dead or longjj respectable, say Albuquerque detectives.But the search goes on.STUDENT HONORED 1 Don CJark, 2837 Valencia.! NE, was among Indiana University students cited at the honors banquet of the department of chemistry.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Tue, May 23, 1967
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