Evening star., 1934-11-25
DEATHSOF 3G|RLS
BATTLE PROBERS.
Monoxide Blamed in View of
Lack of Vio|enCe-Iden.
titles Mystery.
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the western section. About Is miles
to the south is Gettysburg.
The theory that carbon monoxide
fumes may have caused death was eX-
pressed by Harry L. McElroy. detective
chief of the State police. He said the
only theory he had was that the chill
dren might have been killed by
monoxide fumes and brought to the
spot where they were found"
AutopsieS show no signs of internal
violence, physicians said. The coroner
added, however. that the case may
hinge on an analysis of the stomachs
and blood.
Haegele said one was "criminally
said she had been attacked, but he
Gid not know if it was criminal case.
He said: Il would judge they had
been dead from "a to 48 hours"
Check-up Begins.
Two men found the bodies. A Ma
tjon-Wide check-up Of missing chill
dren began at once.
Miss Mary A. Parker, superintend-
ent of the Children's Home of Baltl-
more County, Md, flew to Carlisle
to view the bodies on the theory that
they might be three of five children
who were missing from the institu-
ton.
These are not my girls" Miss
Parker said.
Meanwhile. the Maryland children
had been found walking along rail-
road track
A minute examination of the cloth
ing worn by the girls gave no clues
except N. R. A. manufacturers code
slips sewn into the coats. Police said
they will endeavor TO learn what re-
tail stores handled the garments.
A thicket about 20 feet deep sep
arated the damp, leaf-matted bier
from a main highway. Haegele says
he believes the little forms were car
ried there. They lay on an expensive
green blanket with satin hens and
were covered with similar blanket.
They wore new shoes. green coats with
full collars and silk underwear.
OF Good Family.
"The girls all were yaCclnated by
the same physician" the coroner said.
Each had a vaccination mark high on
her left arm. He expressed the opin-
ion they came from a good family"
Sergt. Gene Wood of the Carlisle
department voiced the Staying theory.
John E. Clark and Clark Jardlne,
employed on the James M. Cameron
estate at Kings Gap, nearby. found
the children and at first thought they
were asleep, so coily were they tucKeo
in beneath the blanket.
Rain drenched the mountalnside
last night and the coroner says he be-
lieyes the bodies were brought there
after the rain. Leaves beneath the
blanket we're wet: the bodies we're dry
He fixed the time of death at about
$50 last night and said he believes
the bodies we're brought to the woods
less than an hour later.
The faces of the children were
swollen as if by exposure or poison
Blood smeared the faces Of the Oldest
and youngest, but the coroner says
this might have come from a nose
bleed caused by exposure or hemor-
rhaee at death He said he IS in
clined to believe the children were
carried through the underbrush from
machine parked by the roadside
during the night.
Although hundreds pressed through
the briars to view the bodies, none
could identify them and they we're
removed to Carlisle.
A Harrisburg woman, who said her
two daughters have disappeared,
rushed to the mountainside GREATNESS
and on the verge of hysterla, but the
children were not hers.
The pair who discovered the bodies
were preparing to cut down massive
oak tree when they made the dis
covery.
Clark said he saw the blankets and
walked over to them. He said there
were no paths leading to the little
clearing, about feet square.