The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-12
ARMY CAPTAIN IN UNIFORM IS RECOGNIZED BY
ONLY SURVIVING VICTIM AS THE GUILTY ONE

you in just few minu,es.- Ohelson
I said he left
Amount Money Taken Not Known.
Just how much money the robber OBJ.
tanned was not announced by the au.
| thorities. To-day is possibly pay day for
| the camp, and 1t is supposed there was
an unusually large amount of cash on
| hand.
Within twenty minutes after the mur.
! ders We're discovered, Camp Funston
went under a most strict regime. The
camp was isolated and a heavily armed
guard surrounds the entire area.
Camp Funston, Kan, Jan. IA mill.
| tary police within the cantonment and
officers of surrounding towns and cities
today are searching for the murderer
or murderers who last night killed with
axes four men and seriously wounded
another in the army bank on the mill.
| tary reservation here and obtained as
loot an, as yet, unstated amount of
/ money and Liberty bonds.
! The bodies Of the dead men are said
to have been literally hacked to pieces.
! The dead are:
G. FULLER WINTERS, Vice-presi.
dent of the National Reserve bank Of
Kansas City, Mo.
JOHN w. JEWELL OF Springfield,
Mo-, editor of the Camp Funston Trencn
and Camp, and associate owner with his
father, II. 5. Jewell, Of the Springfield
| Leader
CARL OHLEsON, 10, son of Andrew
| Ohleson, contractor Of Kansas City, Mo.
o. M. HILL, clerk in the bank
Cashier Seriously Wounded.
Eearney Wornall cashier Of the army
bank, was seriously wounded. When
! the murders and robbery were discov-
cred, Cashier Wornall was the only one
of the five victims conscious, but he has
not been able to give u lucid story of
the tragedy
The attack occurred, it is believed,
shortly after 7:3O o'clock last night. A
half hour later a sentry heard groans
and Investigated. Mr.. Winters still was
alive He was removed to the camp
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Immediately a guard was thrown
about the camp and all military passes
were revoked. No one could go about
the camp without being challenged and
taken to the guard house. That fate
| befell several newspaper correspondents,
it is reported. who attempted to obtain
details.
Early today, it was reported that an
army officer with q police dog that is
! being trained for war work had fol.
| lowed a trail some distance to an inter.
urban car line. A man living in that
vicinity was said to have stated that he
| had seen four men, one carrying a
heavy suit case, board car at that
point early last night. That apparently
was the only clue.
! The army bank, branch Of the Ma.
tional Reserve bank of Kansas City
| Mo-, is situated in the center of the
huge cantonment. 1t is housed in a
small frame building, and Mr.. Winters
was at the camp to supervise moving
the bank to larger quarters.
Mercury % Below Zero.
Young Ohleson had been sleeping
nightly at the bank and Mr.. Jewell was
at the bank to take the other men in
his motor car to their sleeping quarters.
Yesterday was the coldest day of the
year at Camp Funston, the mercury
registering % degrees below zero, and
it is said that as a result, the number
Of sentries and guards had been re.
duced to the minimum. That circum.
stance, it is pointed out, undoubtedly
acted as a material aid to the robber or
robbers.
II also was suggested that since il
was after banking hours the uniform of
an army officer was needed to get an
unopposed entrance to the bank.
William Huttig, president of the Ma
tional Reserve bank of Kansas City, of
which the army bank is branch, early
today said that he could not give the
exact amount on hand in the army
bank, but said that generally it was
$4,000 to $1l 900.