Evening star., 1934-11-27
Phi|adeIphian Says He Saw
Slain Man RecentIy-Vic-
Tins Ages Tally.
CONNECTS MYSTERY
WITH DOUBLE SHOOTING
Partial Identification by One Bus
Driver Withdrawn-Mysteri.
GUS Scar Puzzles Police.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CARLISLE, Pa, November 81
With two other new and promising
clues shattered, investigation Of the
deaths of three young girls found mys-
teriously dead near here Saturday
turned again to a vague Sign Of the
cross" on the forehead of one of the
little victims and the story told Phila-
delphia police that the children might
be those of Horace Hughes, formerly
Of San Francisco.
The information came from Larry
Carney of Philadelphia.
Carney said he was discharged from
the Army six years ago at San Fran
cisco and decided to remain in that
city where he stayed with the Hughes
family. Hughes was at that time an
officer with the Salvation Army.
Hughes told him. Carney said, that
he had hitch-hiked TO Philadelphia
from the Pacific Coast with his in
tended wife" about 81 years old and
his three daughters by a former mar
riage The children. he said, were
Geraldine, about Is, Dorothy, about
r. and third, about 8, whose name
Carney does not know
All Of Hughes children, Carney said,
had pug noses.
The night of November 19 I saw
my old friend at Thirteenth and Mar
ket streets, Philadelphia, Carney said.
Didn't See Children.
He said # he didn't get job in
Philadelphia he was going to Pitts
burgh. where he said he had brother
or a brother-ln-law.
When l heard about the three lit
tie girls whose bodies were found /
thought maybe they might be his. ]
didn't see his children"
After a quick and secret investi-
CATION, State police today announced
that a homemade house on wheels,
found in a local garage and bearing
California license plates, belonged to
a travelling evangelist and had no con-
nection with the mystery.
About the same time Glenn Will
liams. Harrisburg Pittsburgh bus driv-
er, who let a woman and three chill
dren off his bu: at Cresson Wednes-
day night. said the bodies of the
three girls we're much bigger children
than those witt. the woman on his
bus.
But Paul White. another bus driver
held to his identification of the bodies
as those of a trio he took from New
York to Harrisburg Wednesday.
Blamed on Wound.
Lieut.. A. j. Hudock of the State
police advanced the opinion that the
mark on the girls head was not a
brand" but stitch used by doctor
in closing a wound
There is an indentation on the
forehead. a ridge running straight
down from the hairline" Hudock said.
1T is crossed about the center of the
forehead with horizontal mark In
my opinion. this is stitch used by a
doctor in closing a wound, probably at
birth. 1t is not a brand"
1t was during a second post-mortem
that the scar was found.
Because the little bodies must be
buried soon, State police made death
masks for their records. Of1cers in
vestigated today to find some secret
society whose symbol might have been
marked on the child.
Coroner E. A. Haegele. Cumberland
County, and Coroner L. U. zech, York
County, said that while the mark
might have been caused by a fall or
blow it was more likely the result OF
branding"
No Poison Found.
The second post-mortem last night
failed to disclose evidence of poison
ing and the brains we're normal. ply
sicians said, another blind alley in the
case which has been traced from New
England to the Alleghenies.
At the same time Maj. c. M. Will
helm. deputy superintendent of State
police, told news conference in Har-
risburg that he believes there is nc
connection between the unsolved Car
Isle tragedy and the finding Of slain
man and woman in Duncansville
shack near Altoona.
In the Duncansville case, he said
it appeared to be murder and suicide
while at Carlisle available evidence
seemed to indicate death by exposure
Here again theories clashed. Other
State police investigators clung tc the
belief the slain couple might have
been parents of the children laid away
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