He received word from the St. Francis, Kan., police department that a hitchhiker exactly answering the description of the unidentified girl whose body was found in Boulder cañon a week ago tonight was questioned by St. Francis police the night of April 2.

The hitchhiker got in a car at the edge of St. Francis on the morning of April 3. The automobile bore a Kansas dealer's license, which is to be checked. Everson is also is asking Kansas officers to follow up the name and address - a rural route near Kansas City - given by the hitchhiker.

DESCRIPTION FITS
St. Francis police told Everson the girl was about 17 to 20 years old, 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 100 pounds, and with blonde but not extremely light hair. These characteristics precisely match the description of the victim whose nude body was found at the bottom of an embankment of the Boulder cañon highway. Kansas officers had no information on whether the hitchhiker there had perfect teeth and an appendectomy scar - the only other elements of identification of the victim.

A pathologist said the girl found beside Boulder creek April 8 had been dead "about a week, give or take two or three days either way." That would place the time of death between March 29 and April 5. That could tie in with the hitchhiker's departure from St. Francis the morning of April 3.

CLUE COMES FROM LOVELAND
It might also establish a connection with a report that one of three young men in an automobile with Iowa license plates was seen struggling with a girl in the back seat of a car at Loveland on April 4.

An almost identical report came from a Boulder filling station attendant. The latter incident, occurring the evening of April 7, was eliminated from the murder investigation when the attendant said definitely the girl's blonde hair was straight and short. The victim's hair was almost shoulder-length and wavy or curly.

Sheriff Everson said the Kansas lead was the only new development in the probe up to noon today. Undersheriff D. M. Teegarden went to the mountain area west of Boulder this morning to search for clothing or other clues.