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Issued to Albert Heber- Yer of DuQuoin Found! in Texas. Five More Forged the EAST ST. LOUIS (Special) Fur ther proof that foul play befels the party for two prominent |Southern, Minois | couples who mysteriously disappeared May 22, sit New Mexi co while touring to California was ‘offered today with the report that five more ‘forged checks, |issued to] Albert| Heberer, Duquoin,'one of the four missing, were passed in Texas) . Sixteen checks: issued to‘ George| A. M. Lorius, East St. Louis, whose car tain the party won riding, was found abandoned May 28 in Dallss, Texas, street, already have been found to be forged. They, also were passed in Texas. The forged Heberpr checks were reported to have been signdd with the same green ink as was used on the grad ulent Lorlus checks. They wer passed in Van Horn, Big Spring, Fort Worth,Grand Prairie and Dallas. The Lorlus dhe 5! have been reported go far from Toysh Abilene, Cisco, El Paso a Dallas. Saw Lone Driver That the four were victims of foul play ‘was even more definitely established Tuesday when an oper ative for the Burns’ detective agency,’ working on the case, re ‘ported learning from a Ning. ‘a Honerator’ 44 miles “Sojitti of: corré|that he “had seen a young mirage about noon on May 23 driv ing a setan of the Lorius ie aid tion with no passengers. He sat the left side of this car had bee damaged by, collision} Govern ment agents are scouring the reg ion surrounding Albuquerque 1 the theory that they were robbe and probably murdered within 12 miles of’ Albuquerque.The d scription of auto driver tallies ws that of a' young man ‘suspected of passing four of Lorius Khecker El Paso’ on May 23, Gov. Clyde Tingley of New Mex ico, Tuesday announced that eight| men of the state police |force ha been designated, to work continu ouslyon the case. The theory that the party were victims of crime near Albuquerque is held by all au thorities now, jA shock on the miledge of the car was made Monday afternoon. Based on the knowledge that th party] was in Albuquera’ ie on May 22 and that the car had] been gee: in El Paso on May 23 it was evi dent that whatever hapened curred within a|limit 125-mile rad ius of New Mexico City. It was believed by fedral seat that all of the 40 traveler cec carried by Lorius and Heber were passed within a were in$10 amounts held to Heb erer. Department office inves tigators continued to search through Texas for the check pask er who registered in an El Pago rooming house on May 28 as James Sullivan, East St. Louis, * ,Rapehera, cowboys and residents of the ‘journey of death’, district around Albuquerque, spurred on by the offer of a $500 reward by the Mississippi Valley consistory, of which Lorius was member, renewed their search for the part.
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Urbana Daily Courier
Urbana, Illinois, US
Tue, Jun 11, 1935
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