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Show YOUNG WOMAN KILLED; BODY SET ON FIRE Police Down South Confronted Con-fronted By Task of Tracing Trac-ing Slayers NEW ORLEANS Feb. 1. Police officials of practically every city and town in the south tonight are searching search-ing for three men and two women following tho discovery near Hazel-hurst. Hazel-hurst. Miss., of the body of a young woman so badly beaten and charred 'that identification is feared Impossible. Impos-sible. j The victim, about 23, had been shot ! three times through the head, hor-ribi hor-ribi beaten and her oil-soaked clothes set fire in an effort to destroy the body She Is believed to have been a member mem-ber of a party Of six the remaining five of whom are being sought ihe polico. who left New Orleans several sev-eral das ago. I Several clues to th identity of the victim are being traced The most promising was furnished by a key tag bearing the name Ada Barev. Wichita Vnlls Txuh. Though investigation disclosed tho fact that a woman by that name was mlajing from that city and while it was belieed In some Quarters that the body was that of the girl Its identity remained Uo be ! proved. Another clue was engaging the nt-'tentlon nt-'tentlon of the police was th request !of H A. Bombaehor. an employe of 'the Illinois Central railroad that a I search be made for his wife who wns n member of the party now being sought. Bombacher said his wife was traveling under the assurnd name lot Nelson. |