Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-25

ing lone of the worlds leading
authorities" on exposure anc
freezing of human beings. said
the medical man asserted in ar
interview that 1t would take
to 10 hours for a person to freeze
to death in temperatures around
20 to "a degrees. That was the
range at Chicago's Midway Air.
port in the hours around mid
night December %.
Other experts say a reading
iof 20 or lower is needed foi
freezing the body.
The official United States
Weather Bureau records show
that the temperatures at Mid
way Airport, which is IS minutes
by automobile from downtown
Chicago, ranged from a high OF
SO to a low Of 20 on December
%. from 81 to 10 on December
90 and from 80 to 10 on Decem-
Der 80. There was one inch OF
snow on the ground in this
three-day period.
On the other hand, the range
January 10, the day Bonnie said
he disposed of the bodies, wa.
from 10 above to 3 below zero
For the next four days readings
never got above Is and hit a low
of Z below. Five inches of snow
was on the ground in this period
Bennie's statement in his con.
fession that it was showing and
snow was on the ground" CORE.
sponded with the actual situa.
ton January 10.
DR.. Camp, however, was moi
impressed by these statistics. He
said it probably was colder ir
the forest preserves than at the
airport and that if the ground
was frozen it would have actec
as a refrigerator.
Two Good Leads
Sheriff Lehman currently has
two new leads to the Crime.
mystery investigation. He be.
lieves either one could break
the case wide open.
One concerns a scarf or ba-
bushka said by a witness te
have been left by one of the
Grimes sisters when they were
in a drive-in restaurant with
Bonnie Bedwell and another
man.
Mrs. Grimes comedies that the
scarf bears a striking resem-
iblance" to a scarf in the Grimes
home-one of two she bought
just before Christmas.
Laboratory tests on these
scarfs and two others bought by
the sheriff's Office at the same
shop already have shown that
the scarf found in the restau-
rant and the one Mrs. Grimes
turned over have similar for
eign matter on them. The other
scarves do not. Additional lab
oratory analyses are being made
in which fibers from rugs in the
Grimes home and the girls blan-
kets are being compared with
the foreign matter noted above.
The other hot" lead con-
Germs a friend of Bennie's, a
woman. who says she drove him
to within a block of the Grimes
home several times last year. and
saw Bonnie and Patricia to-
gether.
Mr.. Lehman believes this
woman knows more than she has
told, and his aides are trying to
convince her she should CO.
operate fuzzy.
Sheriff's Witnesses Listed
Among other witnesses the
sheriff has are:
/. Three persons who, like The
Duros couple. say they saw the
girls. Bonnie and a Mexican
man in the Duros restaurant
January s.
2. A bus driver and an elderl,
woman passenger who say they
saw the girls on a West Madi-
son street bus January 2 or 8
They said one of the sisters
stretched out on a seat tneal
the old woman and the other
kept running to the driver to
ask him where Homan avenue
was and telling him to be sure
to let her know when they came
to it. The witnesses say the girls
got out at Homan.
3. A tree surgeon, who stopped
at a skid row joint, near Homan
avenue. for a couple of drinks
January 5. told police he saw
Bonnie and the Grimes girls
there. Pat. where are my
shoes?" one girl asked the other
he said. They had been dancing
in their stocking feet. The wit