YAKIMA W(ashington) — The bullet-punctured body of Sgt. l.C. Frank B. Williams, 37, Yakima Firing Center soldier who was reported missing Oct. 4, was discovered in a Yakima River flume near Union Gap Sunday. The Chicago soldier had been shot in the head and chest. Williams, Chief Criminal Deputy Harold Guthrie said, was the soldier sought since Warren W. Schoel, 36, told authorities he had shot and thrown a soldier into the river Oct. 4 after finding the man with Schoel's wife. Schoel, a Yakima camera salesman, told authorities he had fired a .22 caliber gun at the soldier, Guthrie said. Dr. Ralph Shirey, Yakima County coroner, said Williams was dead when he entered the water. The soldier, Shirey said following an autopsy, was slain by .22 caliber bullets. Schoel is being held at the Yakima County jail. Williams, whose body was found by a duck hunter, was serving temporarily at the firing center with Battery C. 20th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Bn.. from Vashon Island. His widow lives in Seattle and a son lives in Chicago.
[Longview Daily News, 22 October 1956 - Transcribed by K. Torp] 

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