Show BODIES REMOVED fROM VIRGINIA BLUEFIELD W. W Va April 6 AP Handicapped AP-Handicapped Handicapped by a lack of cu clues s southwestern Virginia au authorities au au- i. i today were investigating a t triple slaying revealed re by the swollen swo- swo J len n waters of the Clinch river i w The rhe he bodies of the three victims r p f o women and a man lay at Leba Lebanon Leb- Leb a anon on c county seat of R Russell ssell county v Virginia r a. a where they were ta taken en b being eing removed from the Clinch near Swords Sword's creek late yes yes- rd y y Every efort to identify item had failed early today and ando o admittedly were as much baffled fled by the mystery as when the c s first were taken from the t. t water 1 y AU All three apparently had been v t v shot to death The two women had ad been shot in the breast the theman man man in the back bacle R. R II n. Wilson Russell count county commonwealth attorney attorney at- at torne torney said he believed the victims had been dead at least eight days air Only meager clues were turned Ss Io V j-V 1 Tip up by the early police lion flon Not far from where the bodies 5 jf were found a a. womans woman's comb and w I handkerchief 1 together with a small 7 sum of money were discovered on I the riverbank In the absence of any reports of missing persons in their territory the authorities or believed th the trio t fl bile had been killed d at some e distant ami nl tint th lr then had carried the bodies by automobile automobile automobile automo automo- i bile Into Russell county ann and nad thrown them into the river In the hope of effectually covering up all trace of their crime Investigation also w was s begun into the story of John Goss Coss a farmer i living in the vicinity who told poi poO po- po I i- i O n nn heard three shots fired on the morning of March 27 but a d l' l i e e hll had seen been no one The date fixed by Goss as as to when he heard the shots linked up closely closey with Wilsons Wilson's estimate a ato to the length of time he believed the victims had been dead First seen by a lineman for the Norfolk K Western Vestern railway the were taken taleen from three and anda a half feet of water at t a point about three miles from Swords Sword's creek creel The two women were found only a few feet apart while the theman theman's theman's man mans man's s body floated some thirty feet away |