The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-14
GOT THIRTY Hons
BEFORE he DIED
sc07TY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER nv
pER5HIGG's FORCES, Is
M'1uRNED BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor shop in
Berne to Supply Captured American
Officers r!itn Uniforms--New Plan
for Jrainina Flyers.

OlnCSF@ WIKI CniTormS--NeW Flaff
for Training Flyers.
N7rom Committee on Public Information.)
Washing op.-Private Albert E.
Scott. The youngest soldier in General
PerShing's army in France--he was
bui fifteen years of age and a Brook
line. Mass, high school boy when he
6uli>ict;--is dead, shot through the
he;ui by q German sniper after he had
}a:d tilry foes to rest. and the army
mournS rs hoy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes il!a >. +. +. paper. tells this
story:
"ln the regiment they are talking
these days oi MI the good pals theY
host il Tie .icrec, unfoytgettable chas.,
they cave The Germans in the grea.
retreat fir NJ the Marine. But most OF
ALA little oftener and a bit NOR,
for;iy-!ley talk of Scotty.
'he was good hid, they say. and
he died IN his gun.
'Itis great chance came when on
that historic July 10 his regiment got
flle order for which, through many q
month Of dreams, it had longed-the
order To advance. 1t went Is kilone-
fess without stopping, chasing the Boche
mp hill and down dale, fighting its way
through patch after patch OF inviting
moods llidt would prove treacherOuS
with hidden machine guns.
s'II the first days of that battle, the
movement was SO swift that more than
ONCE Il small German rear guard and an
advance Ynnk platoon would meet in
the forest and fight out then and there
d complete aid separate battle all their
own. So ii was with the Indians, as
Scotty's regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon. rs they were making their
way past the bitterly won town Of
Epieds.
''At the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column of sguads.
The officer in charge caught ,Aem in
the focus of his field glasses. They
were Boches, coming on. The Yanlxs
waited, itching to open fire, but biding
their time, Suddenly the Boches de.
serted thc road and came on them
through the forest,
THE lieutenant placed his men along
roadside ditch. Hc placed Scotty
and his sho-sho beside a tree and
squarely opposite narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that patti, and
the Boches were bound either to come
along II or to cross it.
Soc that path, Scotty? said the
lieutenant That's your target. Not
one OF them must cross It,
Yes. sir said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
''rhcn from the high branches Of
many Il tree and from many a shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
fire answered
y gray figure darted suddenly into
fhe leafy path. He fell.
another appeared. He fell.
There was perhaps ten minutes Of
that. and what was left Of the German
party was Withdrawing when a handful
OF soldiers scampered along the road.
They were Germans, but they shouted
as they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer
icans.'
''For a moment, just for the space
that breath is held, Scotty thrust his
head up to see. From his perch in
some tree a sniper shot him in the
forehead. Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead, on his
gun.
They had Killed him, but the num-
Der of their dead that are counted as
his was thirty"