Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-10-17
MYSTERY ABOUT DEATH PURSUING
 MISSOURI FAMILY
Brother of Man Whose Wife and Uncle Slain, Strange
 ly Fired Upon.

loia, Kan, Oct. 16.--What and why Is the mystery that pursues the Ar,l family?5 What and whe have sent Mrs. Roy Ard to her grave. Elbert Ard to an asylum for the insane, Jac- CD Ard to mysterious death on the banks Of the .Marmaton river and bull ists whizzing past the hsGds of Roy Ard aud Ora Ard?
 Ncne Of the Ard family knows They say it is as much mystery tc them as it has proved to the police and county officers.
 Here are the events of the Ard mystery in the order of their hap pening. -
 Five Mysterious Events.
 Nov, Il, 1914-Mrs. Viola Ard, 2G ye3,Ts cid, wife of Roy Ard,
 farmer, slain at dusk by bullet as
 she drove homawarl in the fami-
 ly motor car accompani5d by her husband and her sister, Katie Latlmer. Ihrs9ts Of violence sent to Frank F. Forrest, county prosecutor, who persisted in grill,
 ling p5rsons living in the neigh borhool cf the shooting.
 May s, 1915-Roy Ard tells po-
 lice he was shot at the night previous from the darkness Of a
 trestl2 over 8 creek near Elsmere. June 1G, 191o-Elbert Ard 20 years old a cousin of Roy L. Ard
 secretly adjudged insana and sent
 to the Osawatomie asylum. :. June 20, 1915-The. body of. .Jae- ..
 ob e. Ard, unelei of Roy, L. Ard,
 found on the bank of the Marma-a trn river The body was on high dry ground, beyond where the
 water could have reached o:' ]: w: she'd t ast-- ore. 9sit g'N#,E SjaS4 Oct. 10, 1915-Ora Ard, brother
 of Roy l.. Ard, fired at as he fed 1 his horses in the, barn. lot. The ! hro!hers live 4oa at.j at.jj2itlliag. fal'm $. !; l ! ssFhis latest fVenf in <. lnystefy ha. stirred city and county officials 10 ie flswed activity and 2 in. the effortvts solve the puzzle, but as. yet they have lnots az tangible elasw5.%to the as ssas si1 who fired at Ora Ard. Nor dcall tn; facts, ga hered in the attgmpt to un ravel the chain of mystery Jumped to gether give any clew.
 Bullet Whizzed FrGm Woods.
 The farms of Roy Ard and Ora Ar, adjoin. Roy Ard new runs moto ] garage in Elsmore. Ora Ard, intend ing with his family to spend Sunda! visiting with a nelghbor, had ariser about 6 o'clock the morning of Oc tober 10. Day was breaking. Ht S arted to the barn to fead his harses 1 1t Was about sixty feet. A few fee l beyond the barn a hghetaun shrdtl | beyond tlte barn is high wire fence Beyond it for abcut Se5 feet the lauc slopes gradually into a small ravine Beyond the rayine IS a fringe o woodland. Ard went cast to the barn As he passed the north asst corner ol the structure, walking toward the door, bullet speed by his head. HS came to sudden halt and turned to- fward the house.
 Mrs. Ard, who had heard the re- port of tho shot, rushed out and joined her husband in a search. They could find nC, tGance of the assAilant Search and inspection hy posse of officers summoned later revaalsi nc footprints nor tracks.
 There was no indication that the wculd-be assassin had ridden to the farm either on horseback or i'll a vehicle. It is the belief of Ard that the person who fired the shot was lying concealed in the ravine and sue ceeded i'll leaving the scene through the channel, without being observed.
 Detectives Are Puzzled.
 "I can't understand it," Ora Ard Said 10 the officers. "There is no reason why anyone should make an attack upon me- .}
 But somebody has reason. Some w here behind all the mystery is a mo- tive Who is it? What is it? The Ards all say they do not know and the officers can't find out
 C:tectives from Kansas City and other places spent weeks here inves- tigating and they found nothing. There never has been the remotest rasembalnce to a fued in the Ard family. Neither they nor anybody else ever knew of any persons hold ing enmity against them.