Whitman Park Shop 21st Sniper Target

WHITMAN PARK SHOP 21ST SNIPER TARGET Window Shattered But No Missile is Found; 2 Sleuths on Case While county and city detectives, police of a half-dozen communities and scores of volunteer sleuths sought vainly for some clue to his identity, South Jersey's "phantom sniper" today fired his twenty-first shot. Arriving at his place of business, 1201 Mt. Ephraim avenue, this morning, Benjamin Donde found that the plate glass in the door of the shop had been drilled by a small hole, apparently made by a bullet. As in most of the cases attributed to the "sniper," no missile was found despite a careful search inside the store. The twentieth incident of the sort, occurring yesterday when the windshield of an automobile in which Abe Fuhrman, Camden jeweler, and his two sons were riding, had served virtually to eliminate theories that the 'sniper's" weapon might be a sling-shot or a revolver equipped with a silencer. The missile which drilled a hole in the Fuhrman auto's windshield was a small, nickel-plated screw. This, of course, could not have been fired from an ordinary rifle or pistol. Police agree, moreover, that no sling shot could be made sufficiently powerful to have driven the screw through the heavy plate glass of the windshield. As it struck, the missile whistled past the ears of the occupants, only a few inches over the heads, and imbedded itself in the upholstery at the rear of the car. County Detectives Howard Smith and William Cleary, it was announced today, had been assigned to special duty in the manhunt for the sniper. They were assigned by Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott. Both agree that the weapon used by the sniper is a compressed air gun.