Chicago Police Launch Great Manhunt For Murderer Of Two Young Girls
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Is icuran of 40 years with tnitei Police gave lie detector tests
Frei. ami hat mnt most of that time to three men Tuesday night and
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One of the men, Walter
Krantz. a railroad steamfitter.
first denied and then admitted
past stories include coverage of the
ipone era's in( warfare; the post
Horid War II stronr-arm and robbery
Kancs: and the Suzanne Dernan slav
inc. Hhich led to the rapture and con
viction of the teen-aged William
Uelrens.
By ROBERT T. LOUGHHAN
United Press Correspondent
Chicago (U.Ri Police today
launched Chicago's greatest man
hunt for the killer of two teen
aged sisters in the second vicious
slaying of teen-agers to shock
this city's millions.
The unclothed, frozen bodies
of Barbara Grimes, 15, and her
sister, Patricia, 13. were found
in a muddy ditch Tuesday by a
construction worker taking an
afternoon drive.
It was the second time in 15
months that missing Chicago
school children were found mur
dered under strikingly similar
circumstances.
Open House Held at
Loan Association
About 100 people attended an
open house of the Southern Ore
gon Production Credit associa
tion Saturday at its new office,
1212 Court st. Medford. Previous
location of the association was
in the Holland hotel building
The new office building re
cently was completed.
Membership of the organiza
tion now totals 750 farmers from
Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson
and Josephine counties, he said.
Association board directors from
Jackson county are Melvin Lat-
tie and Lawrence Luy.
. The association moved to the
new location Dec. 1.
Chest X-Rays Planned
For Nursing Homes
Chest x-rays for residents of
nursing homes in Jackson couiv
ty are being provided by the
Jackson County Public Health
association, according to Mrs.
Robert Paris. . director of x-ray
for the association.
The Medford convalescent
home. Rowell home, Gardiner
home, Jackson county farm
home and Mitchell sanitarium
have participated in the pro
gram, and plans are underway
to complete the program in the
near future, she said. Arrange
ments were made through Miss
Agnes White of the Jackson
county welfare commission.
The chest x-ray clinic is open
to the public every Thursday
from 2 to 5 p.m. and the first
Wednesday evening - of each
month from 7 to 9 p.m7"The
clinic is at Sacred
pital.
he telephoned police with a re
port the sisters' bodies could be
found in Santa Fe Park on the
city's southwest outskirts. Their
bodies were located only a short
distance from the park.
Admits Making Call
Krantz admitted during the lie
detector test that he made the satisfied" with the outcome of
anonymous call to police last
week, authorities said. He had
been questioned last week, but
released.
However, Krantz denied any
knowledge of the crime.
Lt. James McMahon said when
Krantz was asked how he hap
pened to get the idea the girls'
bodies were in Santa Fe Park,
the steamfitter replied that he
"dreamed it."
McMahon said he was "not
Krantz' lie detector test.
The girls disappeared from
their homes three days after
Christmas when they went to
see a movie starring their idol,
singer Elvis Presley, for the
11th time.
Pending an autopsy today, au
thorities said preliminary indi
cations were that the girls had
been dead about two weeks. The
autopsy had to be postponed
until today because of the
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R. K. Keniston, claims repre
sentative in the Medford Social
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GOVERNOR'S MOUSE
Indianapolis (U.R) Among
souvenirs Gov. George N. Craig
collected during four years in
office was a toy mouse. He told
newsmen one day that a mouse
was living in his office, and
quipped: "I feed him because I
want to have one friend." As
sociates later gave him the toy
mouse.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
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sisters' crumpled bodies.
All Chicago and Cook county
law enforcement agencies joined
in a unified, all-out effort to
solve the crime.
Clue Search Hampered
Snow, which apparently cov
ered the girls' bodies and pre
vented their discovery until this
week's thaw, again covered the
area Tuesday afternoon and
night, hampering the search for
clues.
However, police laid a tarpau
lin over' the ground to preserve
any possible clues prior to the
resumption of their search to
day. The entire region was cor
doned off and a nightlong guard
posted.
The frustrating lack of clues
was one of the points of similar
ity between the slayings of the
sisters and the unsolved murder
of three schoolboys in October,
1955.
The slaying of John Schuess
ler, 13, his brother, Anton, 11,
and Robert Peterson, 13, touched
off a continuing manhunt second
only to the present investigation.
Only Monday, a group of
wealthy Chicago men organized
a crime detection institute and
pledged a reward of $100,000 for
the solution to the Schuessler
and Peterson slayings.
Leonard Prescott, 39, Hins
dale, 111., who spotted the girls'
bodies, said at first he thought
they were clothing store dum
mies. Barbara's body was found ly
ing face up on top of her sister's.
There were three puncture
wounds in Barbara's chest,
which appeared to have been
made by an ice pick. Patricia's
face was battered and bruised.
Fear Mass Killer
Police threw some 9.000 men
into the search, fearing, that a
mass killer of children may be
loose in Chicago.
Sheriff Joseph Lohman said
there were "marked similar!-1
ties" between the murders of i
the sisters and the boys. :
Undersheriff Tom Brennan j
said the two cases "could be the I
same thing or else it could be j
somebody following a pattern.
The girls' father, Joseph, iden
tified their bodies as they lay in
a ditch and then broke into hys
terical sobs.
Their mother, Loretta, a di
vorcee, who also had insisted
during the weeks of tense wait
ing that her girls had not run
away, was near collapse.
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