The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-05
STUDENTS OF WHEELING HIGH
SCHOOL TO ATTEND PUBLIC
FUNERAL FOR CAPTAIN
LEE RITZ
County And City Officials Continue
Investigation Of Sad Affair
John NoIte Charged With
Murder

Another sad chapter will be written
today in Wheeling's latest tragedy
when the body Of Robert Lee Ritz,
late captain of Wheeling High school S
champion football eleven Of 1916 will
be laid ut rest in Greenwood cemetery.
Brief funeral services will be held
for the late football leader early this
afternoon at the home OF his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William StoDbs,
No, 217 South Wabash street. From
there the flower laden casket contain
ing the body will be conveyed to the
First English Lutheran church where
public funeral services will be held at
two O'Clock. The Rev. DR.. Z. G. How
ard will conduct the funeral service,
assisted by the Rev. DR.. F. +. BTinln-
stool, pastor Of the First Baptist
church.
The body will be borne from the
home where it has lain since yester-
day, to be viewed by hundreds Of so7-
rowing friends, into the church and to
the grave in Greenwood cemetery by
five teammates on the Wheeling High
school football team and~a Washing
ion & Jefferson College football star,
cousin OF the dead boy. The pail
bearers will be Hugh Stobbs. Henry
stobbs and William Stobbs, cousins OF
Lee Ritz; James Plummer, Thompson
Noble, George WAGNER and Lawrence
WAGNER.
High School Closed
Space will be reserved in the church
for the students Of Wheeling High
school, who for the second time in but
z few DAYS more than year will at
tend in a body the funeral Of their
dead football leader. Last year they
gathered to pay their last tribute 20
the late Captain William II. Parker,
who died on the football field in a
state championship game at Buckhan-
non. The High school will be closed
all day out Of respect to Lee Ritz.
Last evening, memorial services
were held by the Macademy club for
Lee Ritz, preceding the members
march in body to the home Of their
dead members grand parents to view
his silent form. This occasion, whom
they passed silently before the casket
banked with floral tributes, reminded
them, too, Of similar occasion a year
ago when they held their memorial
for William Parker.
Investigation Going On.
While hundreds Of school mates and
friends Of Lee Ritz are giving these
few hours to grief and paying their
last tributes OF respect, county and
city officials continue their inyestiga-
ton Of the terrible tragedy OF three
nights ago when Ritz was shot to
death On the street and his companion
John A. Nolte, Of Warwood. who Is
accused Of the deed, is believed to
have turned upon himself the revol-
yer with which he shot Ritz and sent
two bullets into his own body.
Prosecuting Attorney D. a. Mckee,
and Captain Of Detectives Howard H.
Hastings are engaged in the invesii-
cation Of the double tragedy. and are
known to have spent practically every
available moment yesterday and until
late hour last night in their search
for witnesses who are said to know
Of facts connected with the case.
Prosecuting Attorney Mckee, how
ever, taking the stand that inasmuch
as the affair is a serious murder case
and that he does not care to try his
case through the newspapers. is main
tanning q firm silence as to any new