The Sentinel=record., 1918-08-29
TWO STRANGERS WERE
 SEEN IN NEIGHBORHOOD
Man Who Fired the Shot Was Crack Rifle Shot, and Is Believed by Neiahborhood to Have Come In From Another Section--iPictorial in Dead Mans Home Indicates His Patriotism.

That Frederick Wagner, the farmer of German descent who was assassi-
 hated In his cotton field while sur rounded by his six children Tuesday afternoon, had some strenuous arga- tments while en route home from Ash--
 down last Saturday, was point con- sidered of vital lntersst yesterday to those who are Investigating the mur- der.
 Wagner had been down about Hope and Ashdown with a view of locating | in that section. He had seen tho moving picture "The Beast of Berlin" and was wrought up some because of the hatred of the Germans depicted in |that picture.
 'It may have been that some person with whom he had an argument on this subject followed him in. and am- pushed him. said one of the men of that section yesterday.
 It has developed that two strange men were seen not long time before the killing in the immediate neigh borhood. They travelled in a Ford car, and came lip to the creek short distance from the Wagner home, and later went out the same way they came in. There were no suspicious actions on the part of the men except that they were stopped when first observed and were gossiped with. and said they had trouble with the car. However short time later they turned the car and went away the same road they came up to the vicfn- ity of the Wagner place.
 The man who fired the rifle bullet that crashed through the head or Wagner was good shot. The distance between the slain man and the little pail of smoke that arose after the shot was fully 125 yards. To have shot a man through the head at that distance is said by those in the com- munity to be good shooting. Yester- day the officers of the neighborhoon searched for the shell that 1t was pre- sumed had been thrown out of the rifle immediately after the shot was fired
 It was recalled yesterday that the home of the slain man indicates he was patriotic. The only things about the home to indicate interest in the war were large first page illustrations cut out of the Saturday Blade and tackled up on the walls of the hall of the home. There were full page pic lures, in colors, and bore such word- ing as Getting the Hun" and show ing the Americans in the midst of battle driving back the enemy There was one of the airplane work of the Americans. dropping bombs on Ger man lines, and another or the groups of destroyers out in the ocean after the submarines. Every one of the large page illustrations were of a patriotic nature.
 Those who resided close to Wagner believe that he was one of the type not loyal to Germany and neither loy- al to his own country. They believe that while he was not identified with the Socialists, that he believed with them and was influenced by them, and that he lived rather In a mael- strom of discontent politically. They say that if he had not gone away and witnessed the moving picture "The Beast of Berlin" and became sur rounded with the prejudice that pic- ture suggested, he perhaps would not have become demonstrative in the cause of the German people.
 They also say that Wagner was