The evening world., 1916-06-30
BOY GuAROSMEl!
Of l4TH DROWNED
ON WAY TOBORDER
Pober' Daley AMI lOuir Tfiil
Lose Their Lives Bathing
A. Jerome. No.
TWO HOMES DEsOLATE.
News n Doullt Trlgtiy IS
Broken h. Brooklyn Fam.
lies BY reporters Queries.

errfSGFtELD. No. IN. ~
Robsr, Diiy snf LOU, Rats ~
esoosiyn. priya'ss IN COMPANY ~,
Fourteenth Ss- Yors Regiment. y-r.
drowned IN IN. oas-onsds Elvsr az
jerome last evening. according 20 an
official rsp,f, nsis her. by COB . ~
roo,s. the commanding officer.
Tho two men Ssrs sean 10 sint In
ire svif' ourren, Of the river. but
thsir bodies wms not rseovSfsi. al.
though the river va, searc'si Tor
sevsrh hours
Jerome In a small junction point ~
Southwest Missouri. and tho train
vac sidetrackod thcrs Tor half an
hour while the men took q swim.
Robert Emmett Daley was a tail.
cisar-eyod Ind. living with his father.
mother and sisters at No. No. 2ls
Classon Avenue. brooklyn. lilo joined
the Fourteenth Regiment. N. q. ". Y.
last November. when he was nine
teen years old IIc was In hts place
In Company II when the regiment
started for brownsville from Pecks-
kill last Monday. Yesterday. accord
ing to dispatches from Springfield.
Mo-, he was drowned while bathing
In the Gasconads River at jerome.
No.. on route to the border.
Daley's gray haired mother showed
q picture postcard OF Robert TO an
Evening World reporter this morn
ing. sho had not yet learned her son
was dead.
He had II taken at Peekskill." she
said proudly. lie Is always thought
full Of US. Look. hero Is n postal card
We got from him yesterday morning"
The card was dated Toledo. on It
Wa written In a boyish hand:
''Dear Mother: We are stopping at
Toledo now, and going through to
Chicago. Am having the time Of my
hfe. Please don't worry. Your loving
son, ROBERT"
Tue reporter asked whether Robert
could swim.
no" said Mrs. Emmett why do
you ask7 Has anything happened to
my boy7 Oh. q little accident. We'll,
I'm relieved. Do you know. l woke
I'D at o'clock this morning. very
uneasy. I simply couldn't sleep. be-
cause I felt something had happened
70 Robert. II was foolish OF me, OF
course. and went to the window and
eat there and wondered what It could
be.
Then I saw how wrong II was 10
worry like that. 20 l went back to
my bed and knelt down and said a
prayer for my boy. nearly fell asleep
then for felt 10 relieved: bu: | IN
ished my prayer and then ! went TO
sleep. Certainly you may have q pic
ture Of Robert. But why do you want
Mr"
The reporter did not tell her. but
showed the despatch telling CT the
drowning Of Robert TO his sis'er and
his cousin. who later told the mother
how the troop train halted to let the
men OF the Fourteenth swim In the
0aSconade River at Jerome yesfer-
day, and Robert and Louis ltettz. an
ether Guardsman. were drowned.
The reporter then went TO No. 33l
Second Street, South Brooklyn, where
Reitx lived with his father. mother
and sisters. The boy was nineteen
years old. He left his Job with Hanan
q Co., shoe dealers, n week ago last
Monday, when tho order to mobilize
the National Guard was issued, and
enlisted with the Fourteenth Regi-
ment. The reporter found Reitz's
mother with her married daughter
He asked II they had received any
word about Louis.
"No." they both cried eagerly
what is It? You are a reporter?
An accident in the river? Oh. Louis!"
Both women collapsed to the floor,
weeping,