Eldorado, Ill., Dec. 10 — Pearl Harrelson, 15, a high school sophomore, and Charles Tate, 18, an NYA worker, were found dead in an automobile in a woods six miles northeast of this city today by two rabbit hunters.
The hunters, Frank Dardeen and Ray Carner of Eldorado, both were uncles of the dead girl, and Deputy Sheriff Ivan Wilson, said Dardeen told him they had been missing since last Saturday night, but their families, believing they had eloped, had not notified county law enforcement officials.
Wilson said a garden hose led form the exhaust pipe into the car and both bodies were brilliant red from carbon monoxide poison.
Tate was in a sitting position, with his head bowed as though asleep. The girl was in his arms.
Also in the front seat was an enlarged picture of the girl which Tate had taken from his home Saturday night.
Miss Harrelson was the daughter of Riley Harrelson, an Eldorado WPA worker, and Tate’s father, James, is a truck driver.
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