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intersection with Treadwell.Several witnesses saw a man trailing the young woman be fore the attack, and a man was seen running from the scene after her screams brought aid. Young Kunkel was arrested shortly afterward about five blocks from the scene.As funeral services were conducted Thursday at Ozarkfor the murder victim, the state medical examiner’s office concluded tests on the blood-stained clothing worn by Kunkel at the time of his arrest and said the blood was of the same typeas Miss Storment's.Filing of the murder charge climaxed days of activity by police agencies, and followed by a single day the discovery ofwhat may prove to be the murder weapon — a long, fchin-blad-ed butcher knife discovered Wednesday by Sheriff Bill Long near the scene of the murder.The knife, found with its blade thrust into the ground in the backyard of a house just south of where Miss Storment was attacked, was located Wednesday morning by Sheriff Bill LongIn Hospital DisputeCummings OrdersCaudle ReinstatedA Washington Circuit Court order Thursday afternoon reinstated George F. Caudle to Washington General Hospital’s Board of Governors, removed Caudle’s successor, the Rev. H. D. McCarty, and. in effect, completely turned the tables in a dispute between County Judge Vol Lester and the hospital board.ing how other hospitals solve similar problems is not sufficient to base a finding that Caudle refuses to act as a(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)A 17-yea r-old Fayetteville high school drop out was charged with first degree murder in Washington Circuit Court late this morning, five days after a University of Arkansas coed was stabbed to death a few blocks from the campus.The information filed by Prosecutor M a h 1 o n Gibson charged Wallace Peter Kunkel,1659 Viewpoint, with premeditated murder in the death of Pauline Frances Storment, 27, a UA sophomore from Ozark.Kunkel was arrested Monday evening a few minutes after Miss Storment was stabbed eight times in the chest as she walked home from the University Library. The attack occurred on South Duncan Avenue nearand dispatched to Little Rock by State Police airplane forchemical and fingerprint tests.Young Kunkel has been held in the Fayetteville city jail since his arrest by city police officers, but was to be transferred today to the county jail, where suspects charged with a felony are normally held.Sources said a sample of Kunkel’s blood has been tested at the request of county authorities to determine his blood type. The results of the test have not been made public. Should his blood type prove the same as Miss Storment’s, the blood stains on his clothingcould prove less conclusive as evidence.Filing of the charge, authorities hoped, will bring an e n d to the flood of baseless rumors that have swept over Fayetteville and the University campus.Police switchboard operators, as well as newspapers and radio stations, have been kept busy much of the week answering queries from persons anxious to confirm the latest — and most florid — rumor.It was not immediately apparent when the suspect will be arraigned in Circuit Court. The prosecuting attorney could not be contacted before press itime for a statement.
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Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Fri, Apr 16, 1971
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