Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-17 | Page 1 | Boy and Girl in Auto Shot from Ambush

BOY AND GIRL 111 AUTO SHOT FRO pUSH Relatives Find Bodies on Lonely Mountain Road After Ail-Night Search; Posses Take the .Trail Steel-Jacketed Pellet Passes Pass-es Through Youth's Head, Then Inflicts Fatal Fa-tal Wound on Girl If A ft Y SVTUJEL Pa, May JT. A slngla ahot from a rlfta vii raapoa-Ibhi raapoa-Ibhi for Ul murdar xt AlUa. Jaat Kllanborc. I, af HolMayabunr. Pa. and Harry (ianatsr. 1,, president of th graduating rlasa of MarysvUla Hiffb school, authorittoa Inveatlgat. lug thalr daatiia today dlacloaed. Tha two high school seniors war, killed from ambush, according to stale police. Tha girl araa sluing at tha steering wheel and tha boy was atandlng. aa If about to atop Inta tha ear. nla bead hanging orer tha aide. A single si eel Jacket bullet penetrated pene-trated the young man'a head and paaaed through the body af Mlaa Ellenberger. Mlaa Ellenberger, here on a vacation, va-cation, went out for flowers yeeterday yee-terday afternoon, with young Oan-st Oan-st or, whose school term ended yea-ttMay. yea-ttMay. When the pair failed to return laat night Joseph Ganeter the boy'a father, led a posse Into the mountains. moun-tains. The father found tha automobile auto-mobile mired along a mountain road ebortly after daybreak. Ganeter'a uncle, who accompanied the posse, returned here early today. to-day. "1 don't know how they were killed.- ha aaid. "There waa a lot of blood there. 1 don't know If there waa a revolver In the cay of not " e Oan star a father stayed with the car, which U on i lonely one-waf I oaring traif over the top of Seven Mountains. Tha uncle waa cent bark to ten young Oanater'a mother that tha boy had been found dead and to notify the authorltle. The girl waa sitting at the ateer-lng ateer-lng wheel. -with blood streaming from her mouth, Ganeter alttlng by her aide, with hta head hanging on the outalde of the automobile. Miae Ellenberger waa wall known throughout thla oecttoa for her un-uadal un-uadal voices On Thursday night aha had taken the star role In aa amateur ama-teur production presented In the Maryevllle High echool. Oanater'a schoolmates told authorltle au-thorltle he had been in the habit of carrying a revolver around and got Into trouble on several occasions. occa-sions. Some time ago ha shot a lo-year-oJd boy from his ahack In the mountains moun-tains that eurround the village. According Ac-cording to the story told the author au-thor it iea someone threw el ones against the building and be began shooting throuah the door. The boy, who had been playing In the wood a. waa injured by a atray bullet. Oeneter said he had been taking pictures of moonshine atllla and .feared the moonahinere were after him.