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unconcerned, while Ida May kept caressing the shiny "engagement ring” she wore on
the third finger of her left hand. Said a Portland judge; "I feel sorry for you children.”
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MAINE and Maryland police were dumbfounded  model, expensive car in which they traveled Dver
1V1 recently when they set out to solve a gruesome   called police. Caked with blood was the car^ Pyer    (
murder mystery, found it had been committed by   seat A check revealed it to . 8 r r •        \
three bright-eyed, adventuresome adolescents-, boy   Browning,8Stinerantdatpentb that f.G rainger
and two.girls. It a 11 started 1 when Herbert Cox, Jr.,   had promised to drive the youngsters past Wash
16,andhistwogirl friends, Leona Cunningham, 15,   ington. Browning’s, body was found in the woods    \
and Ida May Price, 16, made romantic plans for a   near Conowingo, Md. He had been shot through the    ’
futurefrom. which all reality had been expunged,   back of the head, robbed. The "Trailertown Kid«”
Dver1 of pnowoftheir escapade was an uncle, James   each confessed at last that Cox shot Browning after    /
Uyer, of Portland, Me., whom they visaed after leav-   he made advances to Ida May that all had helped
ing .their parental homes in an Alexandria, Va.,   dispose of the body. Cox, convicted of second degree    (
trailer camp. His suspicions aroused by the late   murder, got 12 years; the girls, reformatory terms     )
Body.was found by, enterprising newspaper No Cinderella's slippers did these dancing pumps turn out to
reporter, Edward Freeman (above), in a be for Ida May Price. Portland, Me., police examine them
thicket near the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, carefully after they were found in the luxurious auto which
rowning had been shot in back of his head. Cox and his gal pals appropriated after killing Browning.
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