El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-07
SERGT. COOPER
SHOT To DEATH
Holdups in Army Club in
Camp Baker Also Wound
E. Goay and Escape.

Sgt. Samuel T. Cooper. company c.
18th infantry, was shot through the
abdomen and died on the way to the
military base hospital Saturday night
when three men wearing white hand
kerchiefs over their faces entered the
noncommissioned officers club in
Camp Baker. on Dyer street. west OF
Fort Bliss. two of them shooting as
they entered.
Private Ernie Goay. troop h. Eighth
cavalry, who was near the bar in the
club. was struck by a spent As caliber
bullet in the right leg above the
knee. the bullet having passed
through two or three inches of wood
work of the bar and dented the cloth
Of his trousers into the wound. from
which 1t was easily extracted. Goay
was sent to his troop quarters.
AssaiIants Run Awny.
The three masked men, two OF them
said to have been in army uniform
and one in civilians clothing. escaped
Immediately after the shooting tax
ing with them approximately $40
from the cash register behind the
cluo bar, which one OF them. re-
ported to be the apparent civilian.
took. while the other two brandished
their pistols 4 sentry near the club
was unable 70 halt a man nearest
him, all three going in different
directions. IL was said.
-Four Shots Fired. Report.
Reports from the club said the at
tackers started firing as they entered
the club, ordering the men inside to
hold up their hands There were, il
IS said a half dozen soldiers and two
in h., IL
cooper, who. it is said. rose to his
feet as the bullet struck him in the
right side. Only four shots were
fired reports said. apparently
directed toward the bar.
sgt Cooper was candidate for a
commission in the school for non
CONS in his brigade.
Blum Gets Bullet.
Coroner James NJ Beaver and
deputy sheriff H Blum went to the
scene Of the shooting and Mr. Beaver
conducted the inquest. Deputy Blum
secured the bullet which wounded
Goay- It was Of the As caliber army
type County. city and military au-
thOrities detailed men at once 20
search for the men who entered the
club.
FL PasO Officers Arrest Three.
Three men giving the names of
Walter c. Jensen, Walter R Weir and
Raymond 3. Wescott, said 10 be from
the machine gun company Of the
Seventh cavalry, were arrested while
cooking near Mesquite, ". NJ. in the
Mesilla valley Monday morning and
brought TO FL Paso in charge of
ieputy sheriff Ivy Finley and con-
stable Lon Garner. Two of them were I
described in telephone advices 10 4
The Herald as soldiers and one as a /
civilian. Between them they are said 7.
TO have had about 81 in change. They 1
were sent to the county Jail pending /
Investigation A bundle OF army /
clothes was found by the officers in 4
ditch near Mesquite, ii is said.
Changed Clothes at BerinO.
Reports TO the sheriffs office in FL 1
PasO Sunday night were that three
men reached the KilgOre store in Be
-ino on foot in the evening and there I
wo of them took off their uniforms, 4
departing from the store about
all Of them in civilian attire
except for soldiers shirts. Sheriff
Felipe Lucero, at Las Cruces, \. NJ,
vas also notified.
military funeral was given this
afternoon at . o'clock from the Peak
,hapel, when the body OF Sergt S
?. Cooper was shipped to his former
lone in Springfield, Mass