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The Cordele Dispatch
Cordele, Crisp County, Georgia
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In Streator, Ill., on August 28, officials make unexplained trips amid rumors that Harry Hill, suspected of murdering his mother (body found buried under home), will surrender to testify at inquest. False sightings reported; his girlfriend Alice Sawyer affirms his innocence.
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MAY SURRENDER
FATHER OF BOY SOUGHT FOR MOTHER'S MURDER AND OFFICERS MAKE MYSTERIOUS TRIPS.
STREATOR, Ill., August 28-(AP)-Hurried and unexplained trips away from Streator by Dr. H. C. Hill and officers working on the Hill homicide case today gave rise to the report that Harry Hill, suspected son of the slain woman, would surrender.
Dr. Hill is believed to have left late last night in company with an attorney and William Robb, chief of police. They returned today. Hill and his attorney declining to comment and Robb denying he had left Streator. His brother however, said he was away all night.
After his return Russell Hanson, state's attorney, and William Clark, sheriff, drove hurriedly out of the city remaining away several hours. They also refused information.
With the resumption of the inquest tonight it was freely rumored in Streator that negotiations were under way to return young Hill to the city in time to testify before the coroner closed his case. Harry is charged in a warrant with the murder of his mother, missing three weeks, whose body was found buried under her home four days ago.
A young man seen asleep in an automobile near St. Louis today was thought to have been Hill and a bowling alley attendant was arrested in Chicago because he resembled the Streator youth. He later was released.
Today, the day she was to have met her sweetheart, Harry Hill in Chicago, Alice Sawyer reiterated her belief in his innocence and cited his care-free attitude as proof of it.
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Streator, Ill.
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August 28
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Harry Hill, suspected of murdering his missing mother whose body was found buried under her home, is rumored to surrender amid mysterious trips by his father Dr. H. C. Hill, police chief William Robb, state's attorney Russell Hanson, and sheriff William Clark. False sightings occur in St. Louis and Chicago. Alice Sawyer believes in his innocence.