The Milwaukee Leader

SLAYER HUNT STILL IS ON

WATERLOO, Ia.—C. R. Orvis, motorcycle policeman, today positively identified a speeding autoist, who he endeavored to arrest Saturday as John L. Whitfield, sought as the murderer of a Cleveland policeman. Orvis was unable to make the identification until today when he compared the speeder with pictures of the fugitive. The policeman said he believed the man was Whitfield. Orvis said the man was traveling in a Packard auto.

The search for John Leonard Whitfield, Cleveland murderer of a policeman there, still continues unabated in Milwaukee, even though Lieut. Charles Never of the Cleveland police department plans to return to Ohio tomorrow unless some clues to Whitfield's whereabouts are uncovered.

Half a dozen tips that Whitfield was in the city were received by police Saturday and Sunday. Nearly every dark, curly-haired stranger, with a sallow skin, whose presence could not be explained, was pointed out as Whitfield. Twice during the week-end, police—eight or ten of them—in "the big car" went out on "Hogans" answering a tip that a man who looked like Whitfield was cornered somewhere.

Once, Saturday night, merchants on 11th Ave. were startled when two automobile loads of detectives drove up and surrounded a house in search of the desperado. A second time two carloads of police were sent to the south side to awaken a man sleeping between two buildings on the chance that he might be Whitfield.