Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-14

] Revives and Describes
/ Captain Killed Four
and Took Cash
HAN's NAME SECRET
~ Of Cantonment Fails to Re-
veal Any of the Stolen
Money

li CAMP FUNSTON, Kan, Jan. IA.
xAe story of how Captain Lewis J
Miller robbed the bank of the army
|tonment here and killed with hand
bur or Ave men who were In the
ing was told to army officers by
1xney Wornall, who. himself seriously
tsded. was the only survivor Of the
5<Ain's fury.
Ior forty-eight hours wornall, who
3 - the cashier of the bank, had hovered
I1fWeen life and death. But Sunday his
Z. U4Vgress was so satisfactory to the army
I&4y9icians that they permitted him to
t4lI the full story of the tragedy. which
tUu4ed with the death of Captain Whis-
ler. eelf-inflcted. at the moment of de-
toctIoE Saturday.
Si. In the meantime systematic search
e of the cantonment has failed to reveal
4 my money stolen from the bank by
Captain Whistler. Federal bank exam
N4ners have begun checking the banks
accounts, but the interior of the building
4 - In such a chaotic condition that 1t is
& qxpected no statement will be made for
4 two or three days.
t II has developed that the note Cap
map whistler wrote after he had decided
y - Kill himself was addressed to a young
woman at Ottawa, Kan. but army off
csrs are making every effort to keep
4 eecret both her name and possible rela-
TELLS DIFFERENT STORY
Wornall's story Sunday differed slightly
from that which had rr'v'ously been
pieced together as aro' officers uues-
q uoned him during hi' .Efrequent inter-
walls Of consciousness Today wornall
Z told how he vas in the bank with G.
Fuller Winters, vice president of the
National Reserve Bank. of Kansas City,
Mo-. John W. Jewell. editor of the Camp
\ Funston paper; Carl. Ohleson. of Kansas
CITY. and o. NJ. Hill, a clerk in the
bank. when whistler came to the bank.
# was about 1880 o'clock Friday eve-
ning.< The door was unlocked and
whistler easily gained entrance Walk
ing around the counter, he drew a heavy
automatic pistol and told the men he
was short in his account" and believed
this was the best bet to remedy It.
Wornall says the officers remarks
were treated as joke until he took an
AZ from under his overcoat and struck
Mr. Winters with its fiat side. All of
y the men then were forced to- lie face
down on the floor. while whistler selected
money. mostly bills Of large denomina-
tion, and threw them into sack.
Wornall says he then was forced to get
up and bind the other men. His own
hands then were tied by the officer and
all of them were gagged.
Here, says the staff officer who re-
ported Wornalrs statement. the cashiers
mind Is blank. and he recalls nothing
that happened until he became conscious
in an ambulance on the way to the hos
pital.
FOUND BY SENTRY
AZ Wornall had been found by a sentry,
wandering aimlessly outside the bank
about an hour after the crime was COM
1nitted. He could not answer questions,
but mumbled uninteiliglbly. according to
fhe sentry: Don't strike him again.
Afo you a fiend?" and finally muir
injured, Bank robbed" Then the alarm
wes given.
That WornaH knew perfectly what he
kas doing last night when he positively
34entified the body of Captain Whistler as
that of the robber was attested today
oya taff officer who was present at the
si4entincatlon. Before the body of the
army officer was wheeled into Wornall's =
pEesence the wounded cashier was made
10 read from magazine to show that
lbe could see and understand
Then Whislers body. dressed in his
ol1ve-drab campaign uniform and upright
iflfa chair, was wheeled into the ward
and placed directly before Wornall.