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--v (E SIX THE ODESSA" AMERICAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957 In Swamps and the remnants of a loaf of bread BY MAKJORIE ROEHt AND JtUTH KEYNOLDS Uttered the car. Lejeune said they followed the blue car to Frenier Beach and parked out of sight of the in the car. Finally the man who knew Audrey reached down to the weather to be communing with nature out on Lake Ponchartraln." The sheriff and his deputies declared it was entirely possible for the murderer to have piloted. a boat with Its motor off almost to -Leading from the jedaa toward! the woods were the prints of bare Hounfi Newi of Thomas A. feet small enough to be a woman's.

death would have reached bit wife sooner tf she had not kept bar telephone buay on Sunday nighOIoV.1 The footprints wars apeced wide Justice Story the" HotaiarTTTie-knier-coiild apart, indicating that the woman would be a good idea for Audrey to use his name. So she did tell yon, Mr. Hotard was certainly good that baby. Why, ho took as good care of it as though It had his pwn-el-waya bringing things to Audrey and Jacqueline." By the time Mrs. Hotard learned about Jacqueline also knew Celotex records showed that her husband had worked only one Sat WM "'ii" running.

Mingled with these have beached his craft with only a wncuicr nau seen foOtDfintf Were the tracks Of a slight crunching sound, crept up Tom in the last 48 hours, rear floorboards of his car and "What you gonna do?" Lejeune asked. "Never mind. Just sUy here and shut up." Then he walked to the other car. "I saw him shoot into the rear window," Lejeune said. mail's boots, About ltt feet along, Finally, her telephone wa Idle! the sheriff came upon a set of to a rear window of the sedan and blasted Hotard.

Abducting' Audrey would have been comparatively long enough for a call to come automobile keys. Snagged oa a bush was a piece of bright plaid through from an acquaintance. easy. But what was she wearing? J. I sport shirt.

-m uu, i "As the woman came running out. the car, police concluded that Aud-K. or.hK dr.n5 h-r "Mrs. Hotard," he said, "I bate to be the one to tell you, but the body of a man thought to be Tom has Just been found at Frenier All the marks en ed abruptly in a grave! patch at te road which leads rut to the mam highway. And rey left with only a brassiere andjhw fhe hair lnto th.

a- skirt. Her- purse was missing. here Hcbert fouci a single tire Beach, near Laplace. He was track, kind wii might have If she ran for her life, she would urday in the last four years. With leu restraint than she had previously shown, the widow talked about Audrey's six-months stay as their bouse guest "She never helped me in any way not even with the dishes.

She hated housework and she was always around Tom. If be was working on his motor boat or reading or anything, there she was. She been made by a cle. Even when Gretna, police hardly have clutched her handbag, The automobile keys carried the; told Beulah Vicknair Hourd that throwing-out her car keys as she was sitting, I begred him not to hurt her, to let her go, but he told me, 'If you don't shut up, I'll kill So 1 shut up and hetarted the car. "Down the road he stopped the car, pulled the woman out and went back into the woods.

After a long time, I heard three or four name of Mrs. Audrey Moate, Baton her husband had been killed at ran. On the other hand, it seemed Rouge. Frenier Beach, she simply couldn't unlikely that her pursuer, overtaking her, would have searched Did Hourd know Mrs. Moate?" believe il Hotard, she told Investigators, ton "Why, yes several years ago her handbag, cast her car keys In knew she was causing dissension when she worked at Celotex." ans just wasn't the type to be at one direction and the post card in shots.

He came back to the car. between as. She wasn't at all at wered Mrs. Hotard. "Back in 1992, another, but keeping the bag it-: toak out of thr trunk and but she was Intelligent while Celotex waa on strike, she Frenier Beach dead or alive.

The spit of sand and shells Jutting Into Lake Pontchartrain from tangled and seemed well-educated, and she stayed with us for six months. But e'fr went bark to the woods- Aftera A thorough check ot Audrey's while he came back once more, belongings turned up a letter stuck By then it was daylight and he away in a corner of her office desk drove me back to New Orleans. had a way ot twisting people there wasn't anything between woods and desolate swamps is around her linger. I hated her! visited only by hunters In search of Tom and Audrey. Tom and I were married for IS years.

He was such! a good man he never could see To some, these words offered a game and lovers seeking privacy, Shoes Found Near Murder Scene at Kaiser. It consisted of a few, "He told me if I ever breathed possibility that Mrs. Hourd might what I'd seen he'd kill me, so the But 46-year-old Tom Hotard was no hunter and he seemed devoted anything bad in anybody. be responsible for the disappear-! rather rambling sentences of the -'L-am fine, how ZTT1 ance of Audrey and the murder next day I took off for Donaldson, because I was scared to But all this time my "conscience. to his wife and two children, Thomas 19, and Susan Ellen, 13.

of Hotard. Pi if tk unt.v. "I I But investigators could find The investigators felt that Mrs. Hotard had been deceived. When they found Moate's car standing in a restaurant parking lot in Laplace, nearest town to Frenier Beach, they found bills addressed to "Mrs.

Audrey M. Hotard" in the nothing absolutely nothing to i Justify such suspicion. Indeed, they. About the only time Tom wasn't puttering about his house in Gretna, according to his wife, were the hours Saturday mornings included when he worked as a safety en found the missing Mrs. Moate will take care of you later." It was n8 Deen bothering me.

So I had Signed "Fathead." te" what 1 knew." ZSttST jn gets U. mad when he', It was now exactly 12 days since i sheriff Hebert found tne story a Gretna neighbor saw Hotard I interesting but shot with discre-kiss'his wife good-by and turned; th. iee. the more of a puzzle than Mrs. Hot glove compartment ard.

For instance, on the final Satur gineer at the Celotex plant But police knew that instead ot Information about the missing Mrs. Moate was given by her mother, Mrs. Minnie Smith of day morning Audrey told her rg to work oa Saturday, Nov. mother she was going to work. 24.

Hotard went Frraier Beach! Baton. Rouge ime-of Hotard's death had been wth a woman. During World War II, blonde. can mother had been blind to her illi ri't you be like Tom Hotard? esUblished as Saturday a perfect family man!" mnrninn nnt Saturdav nicht Other a perfect family morning, not Saturday night Other About 10 o'clock on Saturday! gray-eyed Audrey married George He's ornlngTTfapfeary At4 o'clock the afternoon tinelemeinrtidTrot-ccide-wKh- cit j-omance and approved of her friendship with "Hourd. They usually met on Saturday, so what made this day different to Aud and his teen-aged son.

David, sawl Joined the Navy and Audrey noved 6. the telephone rang in the information gathered by investiga-New Orleans home of Mrs. George'tors. Leicune was wrong about to California to be near Jim. War's a blue four-sedan parked approxi- a maieiy live yarns irom tne water Moate, Audrey's former mother-! the position, in which the Hotard rey? As they approached the heads of a msn and a woman suddenly bob- Hebert had no trouble esUblish- end found them bacx in Louisiana with two chil-lra and a growing incompatibility.

After several brief attempts at. reconciliation, the Moates marriage Anally ended in ing the fact that Audrey drove ln-uw. Mrs. Moate answered. car was parked.

During three visits "Mom!" came a woman's to Frenier Beach, he failed to fine "This is Audrey. I'm in very bad the place where Audrey might havd trouble I need help!" beei buried, up from the back seat The alone to Laplace and got into Hot' Mcxarels backtracts in embarrass ard'a car after she parked her ed haste. divorce in 1954. Audrey met "Mr. Hotard," as own.

Apparently, Hotard drove di rectly to their last try sting place "Where are you. Audrey? Where1 ine mai" i-ejeune accusea, you?" cried Mrs. Moate. At ever- was no. figment, of his ima-once the Une went dead.

jgination. He was well known in k.H k. Ck VfavlrA Mrs. Smith called him, in 1930 Three hours later, another hunter noticed the sedan. The right rear door was open and he saw ai man "sleeping in a strange posi at Frenier Beach.

After that what? OflC A nlrsii VfAAaa UIC UaI MIC A ICUVII while she was working at Celotex. They had a common interest In scouting. Hourd was a scoutmas is, vt nuuici, mi inuaic but police found no evidence to The sheriff called' upon every insisted to the police. tion'' on the back seat Iconnect him to the Hotard-Moate ter and district commissioner for noaaiDie resource in ms nuni ior nn SHERIFF HEBERT But the hunter was a good dis- the missing woman. First, livin ln riiiorniaj tance away, so be didn't Boy Scout camping aad al-geK 1 Hied activities in, his area.

Audrey Lejeune's story of his flight was About 10:30 Sunday morning, the led a Girl Scout troop. The groups 7nr-K; reporters left town n-nfe Sam Monarets, hunting rabbits and. met on the same night and ottea squirrels, returned to the area. To! merged afterward for informal way la "nW Nov. 25.

the day after Hotard 1 r. i-j. scceni anywnere. jwas murdered. "He was so ner- their surprise, the automobile wasj dancing.

Then, according to Mrs. still there. They could see the man, Smith. Audrey decided io become out lor snakes as weu as a oooy.i. aaa nTir.1 lying on the back seat, which was, a safety engineer like Mr.

tioura "I've thought of that," said Mrs. sistingK if anybody asks you, be SUte police observation planes and Coast Guard helicopters criss-. "He helpedjher with a corres-Dondence course and with her Moate. "But I was about the only sure to say I've gone to Texas- opened into a car bed. Moving closer they saw a woman's comb, a vanity case and other odds and crossed wrnn enu wini i t- ll i -M.

mmwr. to tnat" arithmetic," said Mrs. Smith. leveL Two hundred national guardsmen armed with walkie-j Ulkies were called out to tramp ends usually found in a handbag, "Then he took her into his home scattered on the ground near the, while Celotex was on strike. After Orleans and we were still friends.

There was evidence, too, that She paid me a visit only a couple Lejeune hid out for several weeks of months ago. After all I am the in Donaldson, grandmother of her children two! "A victim of delusion," said km Maolui all nnlirtf and dismissed his at arm's length through the treach open right rear door. the strike, she quit Celotex and "Something is maybe kind ofibroufht her two children down erous section. i. i -uaidsman-iouoilposMajd 'Come on, David.

We make sure addressed to Audrey partly sub- th monev t0 Cal( dentified women have been foi found she took a clerical Job with the Kaiser Construction Co. in Gram- if anything is going on. merged in muck not far from her own mottttT in Baton Rouge, ercy -They went to the car for a closer look and then they went for the; and maybe she was too frantic to "Ever, after Audrey left Celotex, floating in the Mississippi River near New Orleans, but neither answered Audrey Moate's description. Mrs. Smith believes her daughter is a victim of amnesia brought on the car.

Said am going on the assumption that Mrs. Moate ia still alive or that her body is in Lake- Pontchartrain. In cold Mr. Hotard took an interest in her, think about phoning collect sheriff. Fot a dead man with a shotgun wound, in his back wis ly- Audrey Moate's picture appeared He used to see her a.

lot Saturday mornings to help her with her stMesT'rff''tte1yas-ni--ei int face Lgawn on the rear suy under far more than a week. French mother-in law also is convinced day and -waitresses in a SHERIFF PERCY HEBERT Audrey Moate Disappeared man." I Between her job and her studies But Lake Pontchartrain gave up! Market coffee shop reported to the. missing woman is alive per- 'Special gift plan for new, small hearing aids. (pronounced A-bear) found Ho no secrets. police that they had seen her.

At haps held on one of the uncounted fbesides ber responsibilities at tard's identification papers in one Hugt Pet Investigators could learn nothing: they had seen a haggard, and unchartered bayou Islands off home). Audrey had a nervous of the dead man pockets. From Freniur Beach. disheveled young woman whose re breakdown. That was in July.

1955. O.MG COVE, Nfld. Boys ter. They draeged the whale to, the location of the wound and the about the origin of the single tire track found at the gravel patch She told her mother that ber doc fronrthis Trinity Bay community! a nearby pond where they feed it position of the body. Hebert theor- loate- is still listed as a missing person and Torn Hotard' murder is marked "unsolved." EM 6-7011 P.

O. Box 1322 J. J. Finley, Dist Mgr. where the woman's footprints and tor-advised her to get away, so have adopted a pothead whale, fresh fish.

The whale seem con- ized that Hourd, whue prone. semblance to Audrey was striking. She ordered coffee and doughnuts early one but when she saw them eyeing her, she paid her tor -five the man's boot tracks stopped. No I heard someone corning and rose! he caught foundering in shallow wa-'tent. body in the vicinity had- seen or Islightly Just before the shot ripped months, check and fled.

into him. There was a small hole In! "Well, two days before Christmas heard a motorlycle months This report put every policeman the rear window of the car, indi Audrey came how with a 4-day-old baby Mrs. Smith told de Naturally, Audrey's ex-husband, and dozens of civilians in New cating that the shotgun was press-. George Moate. was questioned.

But Orleans on the lookout for the; tectives. "The baby's parents didn't want her, Audrey said, and he, happily remarried, was elimi ed against the glass when it was fired. Scattered over the front seat and nated as a suspect missing woman. If the woman at the French Market was 'Audrey Moate, her second disappearance NYLON NlTP she was going to, adopt Jacque floor was a woman's clothing Police brought in for question- was as complete as the first. inc iust about every man from shoes, stockings, sweater, coat.

line that's -what she canea tne baby. Mr. Hotard came to see her right sway. He wanted to sponsor th adootion and he thoucht gloves, slip and pants. Empty i miles around trappers, fishermen, moss pickers.

Vienna sausage cans, potato chips Nineteen more weeks passed. Last April 28 Jackson Lejeune, a New Orleans produce dealer who bought vegetables in the French proniinent New Orleans law yer, who requested that he be shielded from publicity, gave im Market went to police. petus to the theory that the killer 72" Wide 30 New Colors used a boat if "I was hunting near Frenier Beach about 1 o'clock that Satur day afternoon, 'he told police. "I saw Hourd killed and I know what happened to Audrey Moate" he said, keeping a nervous watch over his shoulder. "A certain man I'd know for about five years came up to me in the market that Saturday afternoon and asked me to have a drink with him.

had a few, and then he said. 'Come on. Jack, let's go for "when my attention was attract' MrHjt 9 Ivftous ClwffataMt ptAt iWf yona foniily "fcejejgJijJ (fca v'tiSe Christmas Red, White Green Inc. ed to a speed hull just drifting on the lake waters. In the bow was a woman all huddled up as though IHhi phff fvr wmm IowptN.

PCI she were cold. A big man was in the stern by the motor. I espe a ride, we drove to Laplace where we parked by a restaurant. cially noticed them because they were so still I WvrhtMr ftono if ym kmmi for OtrataMaV Suddenly he kind of rifted his "Thev weren't fishinc. The motor: k.

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