The El Reno American, El Reno, Oklahoma
27 Jun 1918, Thu • Page 1
Harvest Hand’s Body Found Near Okarche, Thursday
Thursday morning the badly dismembered body of a man was found on the railroad track, about a mile south of Okarche. The body was all cut up and scattered along the track for some distance, the arms and legs being cut off and cut in pieces. The remains were mangled past recognition but in a pocket of the coat was a June 5, 1918, registration card made out to Roy James Fondy, at Dalhart, Texas. While the head was terribly crushed, it could be seen that there was a bullet hole just back of one ear. He was a traveling harvest hand, and the evening before had been in the Okarche postoffice and purchased some stamps, and in doing so displayed several bills, and as the pockets of his overalls were turned inside out, there is no question but what he was murdered and robbed and his body placed on the track in hopes of concealing the manner of his death.
Sheriff Carter went out and brought the body to this city. A telegram to Dalhart brought the information that he had worked there, but had no relatives there, so Friday morning the remains were interred in the county cemetery here.
J. H. Fondy, of Snyder, Tex., father of the unfortunate lad, arrived in the city Monday. Mr. Fondy said that his family consisted of twelve boys and one girl, and with the mother, they were sadly shocked and startled by the news of the terrible affair, which is the first death in the family. He said his son was probably on his way to Enid, where he has an older brother. The boy enlisted in the Texas National Guard a while back.
The El Reno American, El Reno, Oklahoma
27 Jun 1918, Thu • Page 1
Harvest Hand’s Body Found Near Okarche, Thursday
Thursday morning the badly dismembered body of a man was found on the railroad track, about a mile south of Okarche. The body was all cut up and scattered along the track for some distance, the arms and legs being cut off and cut in pieces. The remains were mangled past recognition but in a pocket of the coat was a June 5, 1918, registration card made out to Roy James Fondy, at Dalhart, Texas. While the head was terribly crushed, it could be seen that there was a bullet hole just back of one ear. He was a traveling harvest hand, and the evening before had been in the Okarche postoffice and purchased some stamps, and in doing so displayed several bills, and as the pockets of his overalls were turned inside out, there is no question but what he was murdered and robbed and his body placed on the track in hopes of concealing the manner of his death.
Sheriff Carter went out and brought the body to this city. A telegram to Dalhart brought the information that he had worked there, but had no relatives there, so Friday morning the remains were interred in the county cemetery here.
J. H. Fondy, of Snyder, Tex., father of the unfortunate lad, arrived in the city Monday. Mr. Fondy said that his family consisted of twelve boys and one girl, and with the mother, they were sadly shocked and startled by the news of the terrible affair, which is the first death in the family. He said his son was probably on his way to Enid, where he has an older brother. The boy enlisted in the Texas National Guard a while back.
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1900–1983
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