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ESCAPED POW SURRENDERS IN BROOKLYNWilhelm Schmidt, a German prisoner of war, billeted on the battlefield in the former CCC camp, who' escaped some time ago, surrendered himself to Brooklyn police Thursday j and was turned over to the FBI. !Apprehension^ of the prisoner, announced in an Associated Press dispatch Thursday from New York was the first inkling given out that a prisoner had escaped from the the local camp. The dispatch follows;New York (AT)—A blond, heavy-set man, dressed in bedraggled, muddy clothing, stag-ered into the Brooklyn candy store (6923 4th Ave.) of Louis Overkin Thursday and said rti a hoarse voice:“Cop, get cop.”Ovorkin called police who identified the man as Wilhelm ?tchmidi, escaped German prisoner of war from a camp at Gettysburg, Pa. Tired, and hungry, Schmidt was turned over to the FBI.Police Not Advised Gettysburg police told The Times Thursday morning that they had not been advised that a prisoner had escaped.At the prisoner of war camp a junior officer told The Tunes that he ‘didn’t know anything about an escaped prisoner.” He said he was a new officer at the camp, having reported “a few days ago” and that the commanding officer was not at the camp Thursday, and was not expected to return until 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon.The officer also said that he did not know that an escaped prisoner had been caught.Gettysburg police also told The Times Thursday that two German prisoners, who had escaped from, the local camp about two weeks ago, were caught while sitting on the curb in front of the Plaza restaurant. The officer said that the two prisoners were wearing overalls. Two camp guards, the officer said, who were in town, noticed the two men. thought they looked familiar and picked them up. In that instance local police had not been advised that two men had escaped.Shortly after the prisoner of war camp opened here on the Emmits-burg road two prisoners escaped. About 24 hours later local police were informed. Newspapermen were not informed. The FBI in Philadelphia gave details of the escape, and a description of the men to The Times by telephone more than 24 hours after the men fled. They were later apprehended in York county.
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Gettysburg Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Oct 27, 1945
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