The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-12-28
A PLoTTEER SEEKING RICH Wo.
MAN. SLEW A STUDENT
SNOT TO SILENCE HIM
Van Dwight Shelton, Student Prote.
qe Of Miss Gould, Attacked in
Cellar by Supposed Italian
Looking for Woman.

New York Dee. 81 What Is hc-.
ucycd to have been Black Hand
plot to secure money from Miss Hell
cu Miller Could resulted .u 'ho death
cf one of Miss Goulds student pro
tcgcs. Van Dwight shelton at Now
york university. a bullet wound in his
abdomen As young shelton Day dy-
ing hc used his lat moments of con.
sciousnoss to give u description Of
the Intruder in the home of Dean
Charles II. Snow Of the College OF
Applied Sciences.
Miss Gould is cousin of Mrs
snow and frequently spent the night
i'm the Snow home when on her way
to- and from Iryngton. She called at
the Snow home Tuesday evening
Dean Snow refused To say today
whether or not she had spent the
night beneath his roof Her habit of
doing so was comparatively widely
known
When Miss Gould learned of the as.
saut upon young sheldon she hur
ricdly engaged private detectives and
sent them to the scene of the shoot
ing in her motor car. Dean Snow of
fercd reward of 5000 for the apprc.
honsion Of Shclton's slayer.
The shooting happened at 9:l5
o'clock this morning. shelton was q
years old and junior In the civil en-
ginecring department of the uniyorsi
ty and had gone downstairs TO take a
/ look at the furnace before going 10
/ the quiz conducted by Dean Snow.
/ He had studied for the examination
/ the night before and Dean Snow was
surprised that he did not appear at
the examination The first known of
the shooting was the sound of means
coming from the cellar
Anna Tapio. Swedish cook, heard
the moans and went to the cellar
sheldon said strange man had
jumped on him and said:
Where Miss Gould?"
To this Sheldon made no reply. The
man then grappled with him and said
I'm after bigger than you This Is
Miss Gould's house and YOU must
tell me where she is"
Sheldon and his assistant strug-
glod and sheldon. who was short and
weighed little more than 100 pounds
} was overcome. He succeeded, how
ever. in ripping off the mans collar
The man, sheldon said, whipped cords
out Of his pocket and bound him
tightly.
sheldon said he screamed and
screamed for help. Rut the deadenet
) floors of the house prevented hin
from being heard. The intruder look
ed nervously around for something
with which to gag young Sheldon anC
not finding IT, whipped out a revolver
and said:
This will muzzlc YOU"
With that he fired, holding the re
volvcr close against his victims body
T The powder burned a great patch ol
, Sheldon's clothing. Then, frightened
, at the reverberat!on of the charg'
, in the empty cellar the man fled on
Of the basement door
Miss Tapio, the coote said sh
. heard the shot above the muffle,
4 floor but believed It was merely
, creaking board The delay in Mis-
A Tapio's responding TO young sheldon
, groans and the delay occasioned b
her fright allowed the intruder ampl
n time to make his escape, and the onl
- trace Of him was footprints in tn
, snow.
Sheldon said the man was abou
, 80 years old short and dark an
appeared 10 he an Italian, Evidence
Of the struggle were found in the &C
lar, which the intruder had entere
by breaking the bolts Of the door I'll
~ only clews tho man left behind wer
the torn collar and the revolver wnic
VI he dropped after the shooting Youn
T. sheldon died IN the Fordham hospiti
st a few hours after the shooting
" Marked for Death.
10 "Thrga Npars ago I was marked n