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Show Thirteen-Year-Old Mystery Still Puzzles Sheriffs . EL ..PASO, TEX. Somewhere In the eroded butte country of eastern east-ern New Mexico there are the bones ot four people two men and two women who disappeared 13 years ago while on a trip to the West coast Mr. and Mrs. George Lorius of East St. Louis, 111., and their travel-Lng travel-Lng companions, Mr. and Mrs. George Hebore of DeQuoIn, IU., spent the night of May 21, 1935, In Vaughn, N. M. They apparently reached Albuquerque, N. M., where postcards bearing their handwriting were mailed the next day. There the trail ended. The Lorius' 1931 model automobile gave authorities authori-ties their only clew. A nervous young man with a prominent adams apple abandoned the car in Dallas after passing through El Paso. He left a trail of Lorius' travelers' checks before he disappeared In Dallas. Texas and New Mexico sheriffs In this sparsely populated country along the Mexican border never have doubted that the party was murdered. Murder, however, can't be proved until the body is found and there has never been a trace of the Illinois couples. |