Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-21
SERGT. WILSON FOUND;
Joy IN HOME TODAY
Little Daughter Who Has Hourned
His Absence Gets Wei
come News.
Missing Man Gives Himself Up at
the Marine Barracks in
Brooklyn.


that her father. sergt. Frederick w. Will
son of the Marine Corps. who disappear
ed from the city on January 2, has been
found in Brooklyn, n. Y. She didn't need
to. Her smiling face and the succession
Of hugs she gave her mother told the
story.
Eunice heard the news at her home, 507
Sth street southeast. while home from
school for lunch at the noon recess, and,
although advised by her mother not to
say anything to her schoolmates at the
afternoon session, but to let the news
come to them through The Star. the ex-
surely told the fact that she is carrying
some important and joyous secret
Eunice has been writing letters begging
her father to come home She did not
know where to send them. but one was
generally printed in local newspapers.
Sergt. Wilson gave himself up to the
authorities at the marine barracks in
Brooklyn Saturday last, according to
reports made to Marine Corps headquar-
tiers here. He will be brought to the
city for trial by court-martial for having
absented himself without leave, it Is an
nounced by Marine Corps officials.
Feared to Believe News.
His wife had heard the news this
morning from a marine friend of Sergt-
Wilson. who stopped at the house. but
neither she nor her sister-in-law. Mrs
w. F. Swain, was entirely convinced.
I'VE thought we'd walt till We saw
the news published, or saw the man
himself" they told a reporter for The
Star. land we thought it better not to
tell Eunice even Of the report. lest II
be unfounded.''
Both Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Swain
still hold to the idea they expressed
few days ago. that the husband
was being detained against his will
they are unable to explain his sudden
and long-continued absence in any
other way. and still think it probable
that some of the men the officer had
taken to prison in Philadelphia are
| responsible for the trouble.
He wasn't the fiighty kind" said
Mrs. W. F. Swain. his sister-in-law.
| Il never knew him to do anything OF
and husband. and a great home lover
Why, I have known him to come clear
| back to the house to kiss his wife
goodbye when he had forgotten to do
it, which was very seldom. They were
more like honeymooners than a couple
married some years. He had no reason
in the world to desert, and l don't
think for minute he did desert"
Devoted to His Daughter.
HE wouldn't have stayed away from
the child a minute longer than he could
help" said his wife. He was devoted tc
her, and often used to ask her, laugh
| ingly, how old she'd be when she'd lie,
him stop carrying her up to bed. DC
you want me doing 1t when you are q
young lady and there's company in the
l hobd he hae RI hoI
| eyes out over his absence. He was de.
voted to me, also, although perhaps
oughtn't to say it There has never beer
| an occurrence in our married life tina,
would give me suspicion that he would
absent himself from home of his OWE
| volition."
George A. Swain, a nephew, who lives
| in the house, said that his uncle had
| been a second father to him. and. ir
their talks about the young fellows
some day entering the navy. was Away.
severe in his denunciation of deserters
"a deserter not only does wrong" the
uncle used to say, but he is a chumI
as well. Sooner or later they get hin
and his existence in the meantime 1.
hardly what can be called agreeable"
Planned to Retire Soon.
''Only on New Year afternoon" saio
young Swain. Uncle Fred was telling a
druggist of the neighborhood. who has
since told me. that his hardships in tht
service were now past; that he had
earned a well deserved rest and tina,
he thought he would apply for retire.
ment next April
The missing man has served Uncle
Sam for more than thirty-three years
and this, SO his family say. is the very
| first instance during his long career Of
his having broken liberty. 1t has beer
part of Sergeant wilson's duty to &C
| company prisoners to the prison in Phil
adelphia, and. 1t is said, that he hat
| been threatened by some of his charges
with trouble when they had served thei
terms.