The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-02
ROY ARD FOUND NOT GUILTY
Jury in Allen County Murder Trial
Acquits EIsmore Man Of
Killing His Wife.

Roy Ard Of Elsmere, charged with
the murder Of his wife November II,
1914, was acquitted by a jury at lola
the other night. The jury was out
about four hours. There was no
demonstration in the court room Al
most all those present when the case
was given to the jury had gone TO
their homes.
The acQuittal of Ard ends-though
it does not clear up-one phase OF q
series of mysterious attempts on the
lives of several members of the Ard
family. Mrs. Viola Ard, 26 years old,
bride of a few months, was shot as
she and her husband and sister, Miss
Katie Latfmer, we're returning in q
motor car from a visit to q friend
north OF Elsmore. The bullet struck
Mrs. Ard, who was driving, in the
back and entered her heart
It was not until two and a half
years had elapsed that Ard was
charged with the murder. There were
no powder burns on the clothing Of
his wife. The testimony Of the dead
Train Killed Man.-Henry Reiling,
IS years old, Of WestphaIia was killed
at Garrett recently by a Missouri Pa
cific freight train He was on the
sidetrack when the train came along
and struck him, killing him instantly.
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Cornell Man TO Ottawa U.-Dr. Ches-
ter c. Camp of GrinneIl, Ia, now at
Cornell university, Ithaca, n. Y, has
been elected to the chair Of mathe-
mates in Ottawa university.
Club Women 70 SaIina-Salina was
chosen as the meeting place for ths
next meeting of the Kansas Fedora
ton Of women's CLUBS at the closing
session Of the convention Of 1917 at
Pfttsburg.
Kansas G. 4. r. Eiects.-Capt- A Q.
Pearce Of Junction City will head the
Kansas G. A R for the next year,
having been elected department COM
mander at Salina- The other officers
follow: W. H. Johnston, Salina, sen
ior Tice-commander; Samuel Baugh-
man, Chanute, junior vice-commznd-
er; ]. Magtagon, carlton, chaplain
The next encampment will be at
Chanute.
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So Children May Buy co~s.-John
E Wagner, president Of the First
State Bank of Larned, announced that
although too old to go to war, he
would do his bit by offering to lend
any boy or girl in PaEnee county the
money to buy a COW, a calf or a pig
with no other security than the animal
itself, the loan to be repaid entirely
out of the profits made from the ami
NAL.
Man Dead From William R
Bower, q years old. an employee OF
the Standard Refinery at Neodesha,
is dead from burns received while at
work on the stalls. Oil in a bucket
ignited and the flames enYeloped
Bower.
Packing Plant Ready.-The Kansas
Packing Company, the new indepen-
dent plant built by farmers and stock
men of the Southwest, was steamed
up recently and will begin opera
tons soon The Union Stock Yards
adjoining it are also ready to open.
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Kansan French Lieutenant-CIyde
Runyon. a former Wellington man and
member Of the Kansas state militia,
who had been missing for a number
Of years, has written his brother in
Wichita that he is a lieutenant now
in the French army.
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