New-York tribune., 1918-01-14
Sole Survivor of Can.
Funston Tragedy. Con.
firms Suicides Guilt
No race of Mona,,
Funds Stolen Disappear: Ri
ber's Victims Though
1t a Joke

IAN + FUNSTON. Kan, Jan. 13-n
tails Of the manner in which c.,.' ~
Lewis J. Whistler robbed the bsas I'''
the army cantonment here and In,
with hand-axe four OF FIVE mo, s'
were in the building, wore told +o 'H'
officers to-day by Kearney w
who, himself seriously wounded 80
the only survivor Of the capta;n,s g.
In the meantime II sysrenatjc Coz
Of the cantonment has failed to rs,s.,
any money when was stolen fror. -
bank by Captain Whisler Fsa.~.
bank examiners to-day began cb..'
;ag the banks accounts. but the iatss
Of the building is IN suca a chaotic -.
ditlon that 1t is expected no ststsn...
will be made for two or three dave
1t transpired to-day thar a note r.,
tain Whistler wrote after he had !.
cided to kill himself was addressed.
young woman at Ottawa. Kan h..
army officers arc making ever, ., .s. Va,
Identifies Body
Wornall's story TO-DAY differed sr...
iy from that which had previousiv b..s sa,,
pIeced together during his infrsouss.
intervals of consciousness -.
Wornall told now he was in the bsai
With c. Fuller Winters. vice-pres;ds,,,
OF the National Reserve Bank ar Ks,
sas City. Mo; John X. Jewell ed;so. llso,
OF the Camp Funston paper; Carl Ohle.
son, of Kansas City. and O. II. Hn
clerk IN me oans. when Captain
Whistler came IN.
Walking around the country. he dreH
heavy automatic pistol. and told tho
men he was short in has accountant
believed that this was the "best bst'
to remedy it.
Wornall says that the officers 70.
marks were treated as joke until Ne
took an axe from under his overcos.
and struck Mr.. Winters with its ssr
SIDE All OF the men wore then force
10 nc face oo~-n on the floor, while,
"hlser selected money. mostly BIZ
OF large denoninarion, and threw them
into sack. Wornaii says ne then was
forced to get up and bind the othe-
men. His own hands .hen we're tied
by the officer, and all OK them wer.
gagged
What happened la;oc is not clear .
Nornall. army officials say.
Nornall had been found r. :. sentry
wandering aimlessly outside the ban
about an hour after the crime was
committed. He could no. ss,g,s,er cues.
time. but mumbled uninteIiigi bly,, ac-
cording to the sentry: Don't strike
him again. Are you fend ." and fnal
~ murmured bank robbed" Then the
alarm was given.
That WornaN knew perfectly what
he was doing last night when he posi.
lively identified the body of Captain
Whistler as that Of the roober was al
tested 10 to-day by a sta officer who
was present at the identification. Be-
fore the body o. the arm. officer was
wheeled into Y ornall's presence the
cashier was made 20 read
from q magazine 10 show hat he could
sec and understand.
lhen Nhisler's BODY. dressed in his
oliVe-drab campaign uniform and up
right in a chair. vas wheeled into the
ward and placed directly before WOr-
nall.
"That's the man; that's the captain
exclaimed Wornall, according to the
staff officers story.
Captain Whistler recently took out
insurance policy for So.
Geo. 1t was made payable to his four
teen year-old son i'll Salina. Kan. Whis
ler's home. or in case of the SOM
death. 10 Whsle father.