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Seeking the key to a mystery which has defied solution for more than a year, diving operations here are shown in one of the “bottomness lakes” in the desert near Roswell, N. M. Following a tip given to New Mexico police, the search is being made for the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. George Lorius of East St. Louis, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Heberer of Du Quoin, who vanished while on a western tour in May, 1935. With the water lighted by a portable plant and a gasoline air compressor on shore, a diver work ed in the lake, hunting through the many crevices on the boulder-strewn bottom for trace of the bodies. OSWELL, N. M., June 17.—(UP)—State police today were endeavoring to raise an automobile from 125 feet of water in a lake near here in their search of four East St. Louis and Du Quoin residents who disappeared more than a year ago, the automobile was found by a diver as he searched the lake bottom after police received informa tion from a state prison convict that the missing tourists’ bodies would be found in lake. BE. P. Lane, the diver who found the car, said it apparently had been in the lake about a year. The missing tourists, Mr. and Mrs. George lLorius and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Heberer, disappeared May 22, 1936. They last were seen at Vaughn, N. M., on that date.
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Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Wed, Jun 17, 1936
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