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Moline Dispatch Man., March 16, 1964 .DOE RUN, Mo. (AP) — An Oklahoma convict on leave of absence is expected to be re turned to Cook County today after finding the grave of a woman believed to have been killed near Chicago in 1961. The convict, Charles Lubbes, 42, found the woman’s skeleton Sunday buried in a grave 60 miles south of St. Louis. The grave was hidden in woods, a quarter of a mile from a lonely country road. Jook County authorities be lieve the woman was Mrs Jean Moritz the mother of two small girls who was fatally shot Feb 24, 1961, in a tavern near Chi cago They will attempt to pos itively identify her through a pair of false teeth found in her mouth Oklahoma Gov. Henry Bell man allowed Lubbes a 60-day leave after the convict offered to help find the grave The con vict then was released to the Custody of Daniel P Ward, Cook County state’s attorney The two-day search over miles of country road was led by Roswell T Spencer, Ward's chief investigator. Lubbes final ly found a lane leading into the woods where they found a mound of clay over the blan ket-clad skelton. Spencer said Mrs. Moritz, 28, of Addison, Ill, was killed by Gene Webb, 37. Webb, charged with the woman's murder, is being sought. He is an ex-con vict Spencer said Mrs. Moritz was shot in a tavern in the Chicago suburb of Harwood Heights, but would not offer a motive. He said Webb and Lubbes then took the woman, who still was living, to a house in Chicago. Lubbes told Spencer the wom an died the next day. Lubbes said he and Webb then put her in the trunk of a car and brought her body to southeast ern Missouri Lubbes entered the Oklahoma Penitentiary at McAlester Feb. 5 under a one-year term for grand larceny.
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Moline Daily Dispatch
Moline, Illinois, US
Mon, Mar 16, 1964
Page 26
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