The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-12
COMB STATE FOR GRAFT CASE KILLER


SCIloIVI } OVuy
Found in Car
Victim Was Key
Grond Jury Witness,
Authorities Reveal
BY JACK I. GREEN
LANSING, Jan. II tAP}
- Three shots that killed
State Senator Warren 6. Hoop-
er. key witness in q srond jury
CROFT inquiry. on q Jaeksom
county road lost night. set of
one Of the most intense mon.
hunts Of recent yeors in Mich.
gan todoy.G
County and~State Police, and
Special Prosecutor Kim Sixier
OF Judge Carr's grand jury, CO.
ordinated their search for the
killer of the 40-year-old Repub-
lican legislator and for clues to
the motives behind the Staying.
IN BURNING CAR
Shot from such close range
that powder burns ringed the
three bullet wounds in the left
side of his head. Hooper was
found 4lumped in the burning
front seat of his automobile,
which had skidded off the pave
ment- of highway M-99 three
miles north of Springport.
Jackson county authorities
sought possible witness of the
killing this morning after re-
ceiving a telephone call that two
boys in the neighborhood re-
ported they had "seen the car
stop" The boys were to be taken
to the prosecutors office for
questioning.
Sigler, who said Hooper had
been granted immunity by the
grand jury for his testimony.
conferred at Lansing with Cir
cult Judge Leland w. Carr and
set his staff of investigators to
aid in running down the killer.
NO BLIND GUESSES
Capt. Harold Mulhar of the
State Police Detective Division
said I've are working on this
case with no preconceived ideas
of why Senator Hooper was kill
ed. We are working on all an
giles. No motive has been estab-
lShede and we are not making .,
any blind guesses about it,"
Mulbar said he would set up
a temporary headquarters" at
Jackson this afternoon for the
manhunt, with Detective Lieu
tenant Lyle Morse. a specialist
in m u r d G r Investigations. in
charge. Seven detectives will be
assigned TO this headquarters,
to work with the grand jury's
scores of uniform
ed State Police. and local law
agencies.
APPEAL TO PUBLIC
The State Police captain ap-
pcaled TO motorists to report any
hitch-hikcrs on the roads to the
nearest police official.
The fire that smouldered in
the front seat of Hooper's auto
had charred his body
from the knees 10 the chest, One
avenue of investigation being
o low d was to determine
whether Hooper might have
been carrying any valuable rec
ordS. pertinent 10 the graft in
Hooper was enroute from Lam
sing, where the Legislature had
recessed for the weekend. to
his home at Albion when he was
slain.
State Police. who said they
still had not found the gun that
killed Hooper, were concentrate
ing on at least two tangible
clues.
One was a bullet. removed
rom Hoopcr's head. which was
discharged from a ,38 caIibr0
pistol. The other was a set Of
footprints leading from the car
through the snow To the pave. (
nent. Capt. William Hanson q
he State Police said the prints
we're small and might have been
made by a woman.
CHECK MYSTERY CALLS
Police also Woeo investigntina Z
everal "mystefi0ans to1ephou 4
.alls 10 HoopeFAo -Wlle. Col11o
tia. At Albion, Nh, ~ 2
My few hours psief 81 L
hootinR. ss. 4
Mrs. Hooper tojd po1l6
he caller had asked ~ ~ "a
he senator YVES coming - ? /
nd how he IVES travelling. y