Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 9

i ryy fih in Harmeier case Man robs Coed's murder the low Authorities said Larry McNew Rt 1 Kirklin attendant at the Pa cer Gas Station 1959 Wabash St told them the robbery occurred when he approached the driv er for payment of $10 worth of gas purchased Sunny skies and warm tures are expected riday Ex representative sentenced fined shatters quiet as Hollandsburg did Probe clears West Central PE teacher WILLIAMSPORT Halloween fun limited to the young Residents of the Meadow Heights Nursing Center here are planning a Halloween party and dance for Monday and even designing jsome of their own costumes 5 The party is scheduled for 7 pm that night at the center on Short St The public is invited as are the families of residents and the staff Mary Ann McSloy who is helping some residents design their attire said prizes will be awarded for the most creative cos tumes A band will perform during the evening INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ormer State Rep Bernard White South Bend faces a $1000 fine and a six month suspended sentence for fed eral income tax evasion High pressure now centered over Indiana will move to the mid At lantic states ty tonight holding overnight temperatures in to mid 40s just like that Hollandsburg vesting corn on a north of his rural home The Stafford farm is about seven miles from where Miss Har vimeier is believed to have abandoned her disabled car Sept 12 while returning from her family home in Cam bridge Cjty to Indiana Univer sity Police studying sex offender files Home plans costume fete RANCESVILLE An in vestigation by West Central School officials here has exonerated a education teacher of a charge of brutalizing a sixth grade pupil Supt Richard Kirkpatrick said after the investigation that would that the in cident did not happen allegedly occurred in a gymnasium other boys Kirkpatrick said He said interviews with the other pupils did not support the allegation of the student that a teacher pushed him against a wall and bruised him Deputy Pulaski County Prose cutor Michael Austin said the fa ther had made an initial complaint at the office but that the prosecutor was allowing the school system to investigate the af fair He said the father had not re turned to file a formal complaint not see anybody living there Road 700 divides two cornfields half harvested brown and dry It is isolated and quiet The route from the aban doned car to corn field takes about seven minutes to drive if the driver knows where he is headed The spot where the body was found is about a quarter mile north of Egbert Rd across the road from an abandoned bam Stafford found the body near a still green sod path next to a drainage ditch It had been hidden from sear chers by cornstalks which grow more than seven feet high But the field had been harvested Wednesday and the remaining stalks had been crushed flat from police cars and an ambulance used to take the body away McNew told police the driver pulled him by the shirt to wards the van and demanded him all his money or bust The robber was not armed Police said McNew was fright ened by the threat and handed over all the cash he carried in his pock ets The van then was last seen head ed east on Ind 28 The body was found late Tuesday by Lawrence Stafford while he was har I lieiu JUSL RANKORT City police are looking for a brown haired musta chioed man driving a brown ord van who robbed a local gas station of an undetermined amount of cash early today tempera and Sat urday with highs in the upper 60s north and low 70s south The mer cury will hover in the 40s riday and Saturday nights forecast calls for cooler tem peratures Sunday and Monday with highs in the 60s and lows in the 30s to mid 40s White 39 was sentenced here Wednesday by Chief US Distric Court Judge William Steckler who also imposed one year of pro bation White now chairman of the South Bend Public Transportation Corp board of directors was con victed of willfully failing to file in come tax returns for 1971 White' who served two terms in' the Indiana House 1968 71 was ap pointed in 1971' to a two year on the Indiana Judicial Study Com mission created by the legislature to study the judicial system and make recommendations for im provements SCHOOL BUSES were run ning on roads in the area ear ly Wednesday and children stood in front of their houses as they do every morning But this morning there! was ai difference One mother who lives near Egbert Rd and Ind 37 said she now watches her children from a window until they board the bus just know what to do anymore You want to scare them and my son "says big enough to stand there alone But you want to warn them have to tell them ev erything bright and beautiful Ever since that girl was stood by gas station at rankfort THE ROUTE POLICE be lieve most likely was used by the killer begins on the broad four lane concrete sweep of Ind 37 at a point about two miles north of this small Hoosier town Driving north from there motorists pass a state fish hatchery and the Martinsville Country Club before coming to Egbert Rd A sign calling attention to a plush suburban development vacation you come home to every stands nn the west side of the inter section There is no sign to that window and watched the east the direction in which the killer likely turned Egbert Rd is one ot a' number of small roads that twist their way through com fields and over hills in thearea At first there are on each side but INDIANAPOLIS Authorities studied files on known sex of fenders today in their hunt for the killer of a pretty coed whose par tially nude body was found in a cornfield The discovery ended a five week search for Ann Loouise Har meier a 20 year old drama major at Indiana University who was driving to the Bloomington campus from her Cambridge City home when she disappeared The body was found Tuesday a miles from where her aban doned auto was discovered Sept 12 The car had broken down MISS HARMEIER was positively identified Wednesday after an autopsy and a study of dental charts Dr osefino Aguilar an Indianapolis pathologist said the young woman was strangled with a shoestring twisted by her own hair brush Another shoelace bound her hands behind her back The autopsy which took five hours because the body was decom posed indicated Miss Harmeief had been sexually assaulted Aguilar said adding that medical proof of that was impossible because of the decomposition He said the young sweater had been ripped off' her bra s' tom away and her jeans and underwear pulled down around her an The body was found lying face up between two rows of com IT WAS REPORTED this morning that a man was being held in Texas somewhere after a map of Martinsville Ind was found in his possession Police reportedly have some evidence found at the murder scene that could lead to the man in Texas The suspect was not named and Indiana authorites reportedly declined to comment on the re port In Cambridge City David Weston the leader of a com mittee that mounted a nationwide search for Miss Harmeier said (the killing) was in the back of a lot of minds as a possibility very saddened about the situation but on the other hand if it has to be that way glad that she was found If any consolation at all glad that been are very said State Police Maj Stan Kenny who heads the investigation WESTON PRINCIPAL at the elementary school where Miss Har mother Marjorie Harmeier teaches said the same towns people who searched for the coed now may turn their efforts to help ing police locate the killer as a community have done just about everything that could have possibly been done said help Ann but maybe this will help somebody else in the future that might meet with the same kind of uneral services will be at 10:30 am Saturday in Cambridge United Presbyterian Church where Miss Harmeier was to have preached a sermon Sept 25 By GENE POLICINSKI Gannett News Service MARTINSVILLE A thin early morning fog shrouded the northern Morgan County cornfield Wednesday morning where a few hours earlier a farmer had found the body of Ann Louise Harmeier XYThe discovery and autopsy results Wednesday afternoon 'ended a massive statewide'search for the girl that hadincluded hundreds of police men television com mmercials billboards and bumper stickers all asking: 5 is The body State to bask in climbing temperatures By The Associated Press Indian summer will be in full swing riday as a rapid warming trend heats the state the National Weather Service said today of four youths near wouanas burg in west central Indiana just believe they found her right over there just the road 4 sure hope they find whoever did it When they do they ought to' 700 Again there is no sign zi hang them or something tn mark the TOaO DUl aS tmoner said about thing where they killed them the first road you come to four getting so you that you can look down and feel safe them You just never know anymore going to come Another woman who lives just north of where the body was found saia sne now is afraid to live at home She also said the discovery of the 7 body raised anew fears ouickly the road breaks into founded in the eb 14 slaying open fields wun uuiy Uiu barns and abandoned home sites visible ABOUT THREE MILES from Ind 37 there is an in tersection with County Road JlegicnalStaie Journal arid Courier Lafayette Ind Thurs Oct 20 1977 B4 1 MMIUJ MPRT HO Wfl Baby's heart repaired Sharon and "James Nelson of ort Wayne observe their newborn daughter who has become the young est person ever to receive a permanent heart pa cemaker The pacemaker was implanted in heart of Lesley Jane shortly after she was bom Tuesday in St Petersburg la She remains in the intensive care sec tion of a St Petersburg hospital (AP Wirephotol ABC eyes new liquor rules INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A set of proposals including one to require that brewery prices be as low as those charged anywhere in the na tion has been drafted by the In diana Alcoholic Beverage Commis sion The agency says it expects the new rules to help increase com petition and force the liquor in dustry to loosen its grip on the ABC is up to the industry to con vince us that we do not have the legal authority to adopt these pro said ABC Chairman James Sims may also convince us that' the proposals would not be the way to solve the The proposed regulations also will banish exclusive sales terri tories franchises and outlets and require all retail outlets to build shelters around their liquor sup plies The proposals will require the manufacturers to indicate if the Price fixing probe ended Beer Distributors of In diana Inc reports it has been advised that the US Department of Labor has ter minated a two year price fix ing probe of the industry and plans no action Termination of the in vestigation what dis tributors have always main tained that there never has been any conspiratorial action to fix beer prices in the trade association said same product is sold more cheaply under another name and require any producer who sells in Indiana to sell 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