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Wilmington, Ohio, November 21st, 1921.

T. Oliver Vandervort of Burtonville,

Furbier and well-known Clinton County man, is being held in the county

jail here, charged with having shot and killed his divorced wife, Bertha Whitlow Vandervort, age 30,

her mother, Mrs. Susan M. Whitlow, wife of Jeff Whitlow, age 57, and Howard Bozier, aged 24. The shooting occurred at the home of

Mrs. Whitlow near Cuba about midnight Saturday night, according to Sheriff Will Kirk and Deputy Will

Smith, who arrested Vandervort. Brought to the jail here, Vandervort told the story that he was walking to the home of his brother

when he heard a commotion in the home of his former mother-in-law

and that he saw a man leap from the door.

He entered the house and found his divorced wife and Bozier lying on the floor dead

and found Mrs. Whitlow mortally wounded lying on the

kitchen floor. He and his 10-year-old son, who was making his home there, summoned a physician,

he told the officers. Dr. A. P. Basinger of Blanchester responded to the call,

arriving on the scene just a few minutes

before Sheriff Kirk and Deputy Smith arrived. He called an ambulance, and Mrs. Whitlow was rushed

to the hospital at Blanchester, where she died within a short time. At the hospital, she asked

if she would live, and when told that she probably would not,

Mrs. Whitlow expressed her willingness to talk, telling Dr. Basinger that Vandervort fired the shots.

The killing of the three took place on what is known as the Eberley-Briggs farm, one mile west of

Cuba. Bertha Whitlow Vandervort was shot once through the heart,

and Howard Bosier was shot once through the abdomen, and both were evidently killed instantly.

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