Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-03-27
TWO CAROLINA PRISONERS.
Held In Gcrmany--List Shows Num-
bcr OF SOutherners.

Washington. March 23.---An Off
cial list Of 200 Americans now pris-
oners In German camps, made public
tonight by the State Department, re-
cords the death OF Charles Hemphill,
shot while attempting to escape in
September, 1917, and the death Of
Andrew C. Murtroy, an aviator
brought down near Pargny Septem-
ber 80, 1917.
The only American officer in the
| list is Lieut.. Harold Willis, Of New
| ton, Mass, an aviator captured at
Vcrdun on August 1S, 1917. He is
interned at Camp Gutersloh. Evi.
IDENTIFY Willis was an officer in a
French esquadrille.
The list reported by the royal
Prussian war ministry, and trancmit-
&c" BY the German government to the
state Department through the Spar
ish legation in Berne contains the
names Of American troops captured
in trench raids. crews o. capt red
ships and survivors Of captured ships
The list also includes tho names of
American engineers caught in the
German turning movement at Cam
brai.
| Southern Men Held
| The names Of the Southern men
included in the list OF prisoners fol-
lows:
| At Camp Tuchel. West Prussia,
captured at Glsas Sothington, Novem-
bcr II, l9l7--Eight Americans. in
cluding Sergt. Edgar NJ. Haleybur-
ton, Stoncy Point. n. c.; and Pri-
Yates John p. Lester. Tutwiler, NJ SIS ::
Vernon Kendall. Roll. Okla. Daniel
B. Gallagher, West Blockton, A:a
At Camp Coin Rhein-E Edmuud
Lumma, place captured and address
! 70; given
| At Camp llavelburg (rapturci in
German ies)--Joscf and Maria
foaster, Jacob Nochum Kukhis, Leon
Poinsignon. Karl Hummel Adj
dresses given show foreign residence
Taken from enemy munition ship
October &. 1916, addresses not given
-liubcrt Henry and Geo. Fawery.
At Camp Cassel---Chrstian Kep-
pier, date, place OF capture and ad-
dress not given.
At Camp Ilavelburg (taken in Ber-
lin June =. 1917. address not given
Bruno Broun.
From the steamer Esmeraldas.
captured in the Atlantic March TO.
19l7-thirteen, including Walter
Perkins, Whitley, Ky; Edward Me
Donald. address not given.
! From the steamer Mount Temple,
place and date Of capture not given
Raoul Soulois, address unknown.
From the destroyer Jacob Jones.
picked up in English Channel Deceni-
Der 6, 19l7--Albcrt de Mello, New
Bedford. Mass; John +. Murphy.
Newport. r. /.
At Camp Duiemenko-From the
steamer Esmeralda. captured in the
, Atlantic March 10, 1917, total Of
/ Al, including Eugene Boykin, Ander-
son, S. c.; Henry j. Martin, Wal
ton. Fla; Thomas Moore, Norfolk.
Va; Everett G. Earnhardt, Char
lotte, ~ c.; Thos. Fl. Mccarthy,
Richmond, Va; Jesse Wallace, Ches-
| terfield, S. c.. Zebulon Williams,
Richmond, Va, and Albert w. San
tee, Dunbarton, Va.
From the steamer Georgia, cap
tured December 10, 1854 total Of
"a, including John McCarty. Haver-
! hill Estate not given.)
Twenty-eight engineers, captured
at GouZicourt. November 80. 1917,
including Peter Tingto. (no town
given) and VIM. Mcclellan, Tampa,
Fla.
At Camp Rastatt, Baden--Alfred
Dixon. civilian. captured at Lens No
vember 81. 1916, address not given.
At Camp Frankfurt Main--Rudolf
Bockel and Nikolaus Pottmann, both
civilians.
At Camp Bceskow-Dr. John
Brown, Hampton, Va. captured in
the Atlantic from steamer Esmeralda.
At Camp Holsminden--D Herbert
Snyder. Norfolk, Va. captured from
the steamer Voltairc.
At Camp Rhein Edmund '.em-
meu, civilian, date. place capt red
and address not given.
A statement by the committee on
public information said: