Pvt. William Shafer

Article taken from The Fergus Falls Daily Journal, Fergus Falls, MN, November 11, 1953

Safe Assumption

Portsmouth, OHIO (AP)-- Officers are beginning to think 21-year-old Pvt. William Shafer doesn't like the Army.
Sheriff's deputies arrested him yesterday in his West Portsmouth home for being AWOL from Ft. Knox, Ky. Lt was his eighth AWOL in the past year.
Last year he "confessed" slaying a Portsmouth doctor and then repudiated the confession, saying he made it "to get out of the Army."