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FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75} _ (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Officials Hunt Aspen Area Hills for Bund ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Searchers donned ski-racing bibs to identify themselves, and officials used specially trained dugs to comb neighboring hills Wednesday for Theodore R. Bundy. who escaped from the Pitkin County | Courthouse. “We've had no new leads, nothing at | all, to indicate where he might be,”’ said a sheriff's department spokeswoman. Bundy, 30, is charged with the January 1975 slaying of a vacationing Michigan nurse, He escaped during a recess jn a pretrial hearing by ieaping from a second-floor window Tuesday. About 150 persons conducted a house- to-house search in Aspen: and sur- rounding areas Wednesday. Officials concentrated their search within a 20-mile radius of this Rocky Mountain - resort town, still insisting that Bundy, was in the area. Cancel School Sessions - Officials also canceled school in Aspen Wednesday. The sale of guns and ammunition has heen banned in the area since his escape Tuesday. Roadblocks remained up around this Rocky Mountain resort town and on major highways as far as 9 miles away. . Officiats in Garfield County said Wednesday they are looking for one of Bundy’s former ceilmates who walked away from a work release program in Glenwood Springs lust week. Women Extremely Cautious ~ Aspen-area residents, meanwhile, reacted to the escape with a mixture of fear and anger. Many residents arrived home early Tuesday night, locking doors and windows net normally. secured. - Melinda Severance. a city employe, said the sheriff's department was “patently naive, bordering on criminal- iy stupid, to leave Bundy in the k , ——-— courtroom alone.” Deborah Pelluw, au instructor ~ at Cotoraduy Motul College. said she thought women in the area were especially concerned and many were taking the advice of authorities nat to go out alone at night. “The whole thing distresses me," she said. “This man is dangerous endugh for the police depart- meut lo warn citizens to stay inside and lock their doors, but he wasn’t danger- ous enough for them te watch him while he was in the courtroom.” Dist. Atty. Frank Tucker also criti- | cized the lack of security whieh allowed Bundy to escape. Tucker said he had vflen warmed about Bundy's desires to escape and also had requested that Bundy be shackled at all times and under a two-man guard, which was | denied by the court. “There's no excuse for what hap- pened yesterday,” he said. The district attorney added that he would file escape charges against Bundy. Pacing in Courtreom Two deputies had been assigned to guard Bundy during his appearance in District Court here, but a witness said she saw Bundy packing alone in a courtroom just minutes before the escape. The former law student was charged with lirst-degree murder in the death of Caryn Campbell of Dearborn. Mich. Her nude, frozen body was found beside a rural ruad a month after she disappeared. A one-time worker for the Republican party in Washington, Bundy was extra- dited from Utah to stand trial here. He was serving a i-lo-15 year sentence In Utah for the 1974 kidnaping of a Salt Lake City girl. + : ty. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) SALT LAKE Telsune | Jatt Lake City, Atan oS , b 6-97-77 Edition: (NORNIUSG Author: : Editor: t Title: OFFICIALS LEAST? ASPEN AREA Hillis = Burpy Character: or . Classification: 58 (OL 9S- Submitting Office: SA LY LAG (__] Being Investigated aly