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Show "SLAIN" GIRL ALIVE; CLAIM Russell Beitzel Gets Temporary Tempor-ary Reprieve While Probe Is Carried On PHILADELPHIA, July 30. il'T.) Captain of Detectives Andrew Manuel today received a telegram frc m Huron Fitts, district attorney of Los Angeles count, California, asking him to investigate here in connection with the Russell St. Clair Beitzol case. Boifzol, under scnt&nce of death in California for the murdor of Barbara Mauger, h'm sweetheart, has received a temporary reprieve white Governor Youn of California investipatos Beitzel's eleventh hour declaration that the Mauger girl is , alive. Beit zd's statement said the girl was alive and in hiding for fear of prosecution for two criminal offenses of-fenses alleged to have been committed com-mitted here in 1925 and 1927. Fitts asked Emanuel to invesi i-gate i-gate whether the girl was wanted on a charge of absconding with $1,500 from market street store in July, 1D25. He also wants to know whether she was wanted for forgery forg-ery of a check on the Manayunk national bank here in 1927. No record of such charges against the girl have been found here, Emanuel said. However, he has assigned a detective to check up the matt.:r with officers of the store and bank. LOS ANGELES, July 30. (UP) The hope of Russell St. Clair Beitzel Beit-zel convicted murderer of his common-law wife. Barbara Mauger for an eleventh hour reprieve rested today with District Attorney Buron Fitts. Governor C. C. Young said he would take no action in Beitzel's case except on receipt of a formal request, based on substantial grounds. District Attorney Fitts is taking urgent steps to investigate Beitzel's Beit-zel's prison statement that "the Mauger girl still Is alive." |