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(CltUagn Sailg STrituttr Wednesday, January 23, 1957 Part 1 Page 2 CHILDREN FAIL TO COME HOME; Officials View Bodies of Sisters; Hunt Clews ordered tarpaulins thrown over the site, to protect evidence against snow, and directed that a 24 hour guard along the ice-covered Rahway river. Missing are Richard Johnson, 9, and his sister, Martha, 7, children of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm and Philip Harrington, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs.

David W. Harrington. Police chief Lester W. Powell said he had ordered his entire force of 50 into the search. COMB BIG AREA Cranford, N.

Jan. 22 UP Police searched this community of 25,000 persons tonight for three children who failed to return home from school today. Floodlights were set up be. maintained there until the site has- been searched for clews. Confirm Mother's Fears The discovery confirmed the worst fears of the girls' -O-j i ft -vs r' IXiF v' I "1 'J Lai I ri --y-- momer, Mrs.

Loretta Grimes, 48, who was divorced from her husband 11 years ago and worked for a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm to keep her family together. She has another daughter, Theresa, 17, and two sons, Joseph, 14, and James. 11. Another daughter, Mrs. Shirley lives in Bridgeview.

Grimes had contended since, the girls first failed to return home from a movie at 4207.Archer av. that they had been" taken against their will. They were not the type to 4 7 I TRIBUNE PllOtoil Harry Glos (left), chief investigator for coroner's office, and Undersheriff Thomas Bren- nan discussing discovery of bodies of Patricia and Barbara Grimes at scene west of Willow Lt. John Ascher of Chicago police (right) and other officials Springs yesterday. viewing nude bodies of sisters lying in roadside.

run- away, and there was no told them he had been di- than a score of reports re- reason for them to do so, she maintained. vorced for three years, was aieeived by police that one or She pointed out that Pa WHAT GRIMES GIRLS WORE AT THE TIME THEY- DISAPPEARED marine corps veteran of World War II, and was a moderate drinker. He told them he was paying $45 a week alimony to made. Kranz then was released after questioning. After his arrest last night he was brought to the detective bureau and given two lie detector tests.

Walter Gehr, technician who administered the tests, said Kranz gave "unsatisfactory" home, if plea reached them and they were able. As the search continued and was extended into other states, her hopes for their safety faded. Plan Autopsy Today A gruesome joke on Jan. 1 added to the family's misery. both of the missing Grimes girls had been seen alive.

Brennan and Capt. Walter Fleming, head of the sheriff's major investigations unit, ordered more than a score of his ex-wife and their three! Police early today released children a description of clothing worn The other patron In the tav deputies into the Santa Feiby lne murdered Grimes sis 'jters when they disappeared tricia, who was 13 on Dec. 31, had planned a birthday party for some girl friends on Dec. 29. The girls had left all their Christmas presents at home, including portable radio sets which they particularly cherished.

Fan of Elvis Presley Their sister, Theresa, on the day the girls left for the movie, told Patricia to meet her. the next day on Archer a and she would buy her a blouse as a birthday present. She said Patricia replied, "Okay, and you can buy me ern at the time the call was made by Kranz was Stanley Cerwicz, 38, of 5422 Aberdeen St. He was seized by police in his home and also given a lie detector test. Police said the test showed he had no knowledge of the crime and he was An anonymous phoner called the home and told Theresa that the bodies would be found in an alley behind the Archer av.

theater. Police searched there and found nothing. Because of the frozen condition of the bodies, Glos said an autopsy could not be per 'released. Police said Cerwicz Dec. 28.

None of the clothing has been found. PATRICIA: Black shoes, size 8 or yellow sweater, size 32; black jacket with a white stripe on thq. sleeves, size 12 or 14; blue jeans, and white babushka. Black ballerina shoes, size 5Va gray tweed skirt, waist size 22 or 24, with a label bearing the name, Robinson, State and Jackson, Chicago; yellow blouse; gray car coat, i length, size 12 or 14, with a Robert Hall label; white bobby sox, and a gray 4 formed until today. It will be i I.

done by three pathologists: Dr. Jerry Kearns, Dr. Edwin Hirsch, and Dr. A. C.

Webb. Glos said the inquest probably will be started tomorrow. lunch, Patricia was known at St. Maurice school as a girl with a -gay, buoyant personality, addicted to Elvis Presley records. She once told a classmate she had skipped school and Kranz were not acquainted.

Police also began reappraising a story reported to them by Catherine Borak, 13, of 3313 S. Claremont a 7th grade classmate of Patricia at St. Maurice school. Tell of Another Call She said that about a week after the sisters disappeared, she got an anonymous call at home from a man who said: y-2'r. At the county morgue, where the bodies were taken, experts from the crime laboratory took scrapings from the fingernails and toenails of the two girls.

It was hoped they might provide clews. One of the first suspects 1 Catherine Borak park area last night to canvass taverns and roadhouses in a search for clews. 200 Men to Search Area A task force of ,200 men state, citv, county, and sub- to journey to Memphis, Presley's home town, to see her idol. Her mother, however, said this story was not so. Barbara, a sophomore at Kelly, High school, was quiet Walter Kranz answers to many questions.

He said the machine showed defi- We rented a cottage and Pa- 'seized in the case was Walter tricia took her clothes off but1 urban police will be organ- nite disturbances to most key I her sister wouldn't. What are ized this morning to comb the questions of the killings arid reserved. Tho older than her she was somewhat smaller. Friends said that Patricia" had the dominant personality, and what she suggested Barbara would not argue you going to do about it, going western area of Cook county to call the police? around the site where the Kranz, 53, of 5949 Halsted a steam fitter, who previously had been questioned about the girls' disappearance. Arrested Jan.

13 Kranz was arrested Jan. 15 "Yes. I am," replied Cath-1 bodies were found. ft Chicago's Commis against. Bridgeview, Summit, Bedford Park, and Willow Springs, and forest preserve rangers.

Glos and McMahon said the bodies of the girls appeared to be in good condition. They expressed the belief the girls had been slain within the last eight to 14 days. The mystery ahead of police is to determine how Barbara and Patricia Grimes spent possibly as much as two weeks before the apparent time of the slaying. Virtually no clews were found in the hilly, wooded area where the bodies were erine. Then, she said, the caller hung Police, who for weeks have held to the opinion that the Object of Wide Search sioner O'Connor directed Kyran Phelan, deputy commissioner, to cooperate fully with after police received an anony They had been the objects; of one of the greatest missing I mous telephone call at the cen Brennan and county police in girls ran away from home, persons hunt in the city's his-Ural complaint room at police Admits Making Call On the first test, Gehr said Kranz denied making the telephone call to the complaint room.

However in the second test Kranz admitted making the call. In both tests he denied killing the sisters. During the second test Kranz explained he had a dream about the girls' bodies being in Santa Fe park which inspired him to make the telephone call. Gehr refused to told Catherine's parents the the investigation. Fifty Chi tory.

Scores of police searched call eeuld have been a hoax, jcago policemen, including 22 Catherine also told of being men on three-wheel motor-in a restaurant at 3551 Archer i cycles and 20 foot patrolmen, av. on Dec. 29 and seeing Pa- will take part in the search 7 Also taking part will be police tricia walk by with two other girls. This was one of more from La Grange, i dumped beside the road. comment directly on what headquarters, 1121 S.

State in which the caller said the girls could be found in Santa Fe park. The park is in the village of Tiedtville, about a mile and a half south of where the bodies were found. Stock car and motorcycle races are held in the park, and police said the area is frequented by youths and men sporting long sideburns, and flat top and duck tail haircuts. The call was traced to a tav- thru freight cars in the Brighton Park community. Thousands of circulars were distributed, giving the descriptions x)f- the sisters.

At various times they were reported seen in hotels and at filling stations, restaurants, or In buses or bus stations in various states. Just last week their pictures had been identified as those of two girls seeking jobs in Nashville, Tenn. i Mrs. Grimes had appealed It can be found only at Bramton! leading into Spring with a slim line to soft jersey a bit of blousing at the waist ond touches of bright gold buttons make this two-piece ensemble so right so often. Beige, powder blue, or navy.

10 to 16 29.95 I I I action was registered on the detector as Kranz about the dream. Kranz was returned to the 1 Englewood lockup after the 4 tests. Lt. James McMahon, chief of the homicide section, i SAVE. in our semi-annua i for anyone holding the girls; em at 6108 Halsted where against their will to release said he would be given another lie test at 8 p.

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