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The prosecutor said the offer was public- German shepherd tracking dogs have indicated the killer (the donor) will pay a reward of $5,000 to anyone who before The Board of Freeholders announced that it would pay spirited and came from a person who is "responsible, inter- made his way back from the park, sometime after 7 p.m., Dec. 31, 1966, furnishes information leading to the arrest and $5,000 and Prosecutor Vincent P. Keuper said a private source ested and able (to pay)." along Atlantic Ave., (County Rt. 524), to about a mile and a conviction of the slayer of Miss Donna DeRier. has pledged another J5.000, though this sum applies only to Miss DeRier, 19, of Hawthorne, had been living at Mana- quarter from the Grand Union. The dogs lost the scent on OFFER EXTENDED squan for the summer and working a night shift as a checker the county road between Rts. 34 and 35. the death of Miss Donna DeRier, in Wall Township. "The reward will be paid for information furnished up to Tne freeholders said they had agreed unanimously in con- at the Grand Union, Circle Plaza Shopping Center, Wall Police believe the killer went through the village of Al- Township. the specified date, even if the apprehension and conviction is ference to adopt an appropriate resolution at next Tuesday's lenwood. in Wall Township, while there was still daylight. accomplished at a later date. meeting, spelling out details. She was riding to work at about 3:40 p.m. Aug. 3 in her They think that parts of his clothing would have been blood Freeholder Director Joseph C. Irw^n said the action re- yellow Corvair convertible the last time she was seen alive. sUined, or that he had shed some clothing and might have "We request that publicity be given to the fact that the flects the board's "determination to co-operate to the fullest Her body was found, stripped of a tan shift dress and been conspicuous for the lack of a shirt or jacket. reward has been offered, but not to the fact that it has been extent with local, county and state law enforcement authori- underthings, 10 feet from her abandoned car. This was deep There is an outdoor telephone booth in Allenwood which offered by (the name of the donor). ties, and to facilitate their efforts to run down the criminals." in a bridle path, kept open mostly as a fire lane, off a dirt a person seeking aid might have used. "In the event that more than one person produces infor- OFFER ENDORSED road leading from Atlantic Ave., in a woods of the Allaire Police think that the spot where the dog tracking ended mation, the reward will be paid to the person! furnishing the He said the offer had the endorsement of Prosecutor Keu- State Park. may be the place where the murderer was picked up in a earliest information leading to arrest and conviction. No pay- per and Raymond T. Mass, Shrewsbury police chief who is She had been battered across the face and on the head car, driven by someone who might have responded to t ment will be made to persons whose duty it is to enforce the president of the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police. with a four-foot long, inch thick plank which tapered like a phone call or to the killer's thumb as a hitchhiker. laws or to apprehend and convict criminals." • «• I Keuper Lauds Efforts of Police, Urges Increased Patrols in County FREEHOLD — Reassurance of make clear that every possible lar request of municipal police the confidence of the victims were absolutely innocent and in dividual investigations, to in- unrelenting police efforts to action to bring the killers to departments. and thus set up the opportunity no way directly contributed to crease the frequency of patrols crack the riddle of unsolved justice is being taken." Confidence ot Victims for crime. their own deaths. with a view to checkin' g activi- murders, and a call for in- The prosecutor Mid he is urg- Some of the deaths under in- He added: , "I intend to request the attie- s of suspicious persons, creased patrols to help prevent ing Atty. Gen. Arthur J. Sills vestigation, Mr. Keuper said, "It should also be stated that torney general, whose agents parked cars, hitchhikers, etc." new violent crirhes, came yes- to have State Police patrols in- might have been avoided if theto the best of our knowledge have already contributed a great He said he will also ask Mr. terday from Monmouth County tensified and will make a simi- killers had riot perhaps gained all of those who were killed deal towards the total and In- (See KEUPER, Page 3) Prosecutor Vincent P. Keuper. While detectives continue to probe clues in the two latest Keansburg School Board Decides killings, of a 44-year-old Toms River woman whose body was found Wednesday at Howell Township, and of a 19-year-old Hawthorne College coed in Wall HEADS MOM — State Police Maj. F. W. hUlley shows Township Aug.. 3, Mr. Keuper State to Get Answer on Currie bow elpie gun w«i h«4d when Mrs. Dorothy L. McKenzie ^f^ untjrjng efforts and KEANSBURG - Witli the to the petition of fired teacher Margaret Boyle, protesting that teacher's petition to Mr. Russell Mrs. Boyle and Wallace E. of Toms River was shot in the head. Mrs. McKenzie's the great, if unrewarded, skills Board of Education minority Robert T. Currie. she does not feel it is necessary, for his action. Schaab that Mr. Currie's morals, body was found Wednesday in a car stuck in sand off which have been demonstrated raising heated, but futile, objec- The minority, spearheaded by the board voted, 7-1, that on all Asked for proof of this In writ-character and teaching ability n. Aii ii » -j.* ki • u it I j .1 ci A D by the many county, municipal future legal actions the board at- are the highest. The majority J tions, the board voted 5-3 last John J. Ryan, succeeded on one ing Mrs. Boyle claimed that Rt. 9, Howell Towntmp. Maj. Hafley leads the State Po- a ni eMt f[ce gg^,.^ in Cen. night to file an answer with themajor point. torney will not be directed to actneither Mr. Garrison nor thcontinuee d to decline to list rea- until after a meeting of the full lice force investigating the slaying. tral Jersey from the outset state commissioner of education With the board president, Mrs. state commissioner will furnish sons for his oyster. board and a vote by the board such statements in writing. Mr. Russell's response and" mo- approves action by the attorney. Minority members, Mr. Ryan, tion to strike the petition of Mr. In Long Branch Jewel Theft Attempt William E. Russell, the attor- Mrs. Elizabeth Connelly and Currie admits one major conten- ney, later said he Is in agree George W. Preston, Jr., made it tion of the teather. ment with such a policy. ' clear that they doubt this. Ignored Procedure Garrison's Advice? Refhttnts Clamor On behalf of the board, he ad- Mrs. Boyle, however, insisted With more.than 100 residents mits that it failed to comply with Bandit Lights Bomb in Spa's Lobby that she was advised by thecontinuing to clamor for reasons the grievance procedure adopted county superintendent of schools, for the teacher's dismissal, Mr. June 23 by the'board. Mr. Currie »J SANFORD R. STAROBBV The robber, who apparently used as a diversionary tactic did As flames shot up to the ceil- Negro while others claimed he Earl B. GaVrison, to give the Preston drew admissions from (See.CURRIE, Page 3) LONG BRANCH - A dapper knew the layout of the swank little damage to the hotel. ing and the lobby filled with was white and still others said he bandit ignited a fire bomb in thehealth hotel, struck shortly after Witnesses at the scene gave" smoke, the robber walked to thewas a dark-skinned Negro. plush lobby of the Harbor Island 4 p.m., when the lobby was filled this account of events: jewelry concession at the north Police reports listed his heighl Spa yesterday afternoon but with guests and the jewelry con- The bandit entered the lobby end of the lobby, pushed aside the as about five feet seven inches escaped empty-handed when he cessionaire was setting up hisfrom the south side of the build- jeweler and started to fill a hos Three alarms were sounded by was thwarted from stealing a display in glass cases.