Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-22
WOULDN'T ADMIT AN
ARMY DEATH REPORT
Quest Of TULSA Family Had Strange
Feeling Her Husband Ia France
Was Alive In spite OF Report.

we must send our men out 20
live, not 90 de- declared Mrs Han
berry wife OF Lieut. James W Han,
berry Her husband was reported
dead from wounds received July ~
when. acting as company com
mander, he led hia men over tbs
top"
Il would not believe my husband
was dead" MIS- lianbery said yes
terday. "Thc message from Wash
ington, July 81. dtd not convince me,
nor the letter sent later confirming
it would not attend the memorial
held for him az plttFburg, Kan,
August 4 because something seemed
60 tell me that he wis alive"
Mrs lIaRbery ~ visiting her
sister. Miss j. claire Crane. teacher
OF history in the Tulsa public schools.
AZ no West Eighth street ana IL
convalescing from collapse oc-
casioned by the news, first Of the
death ana later Of tho six times
woundiug OF her husband July 10.
any one ot which was enough to
Kin him. he writes. The lieutenant
IL now In IA base hospital at the
mouth of tho Loire river and expects
10 recover In two or three months.
Tho last letter received from him
was written August a. ana news
from tho government received by his
wife last sunday announced that
contrary TO tho former report, he
was sim living
only Recently Married.
Lieutenant llanbcry and his wife,
who are well known In kansas. both
hav ms been members ~ the faculty
OF the pitNbufg state normal school
we're married Immediately after the
lleutenantB enlistment. November
a. 1911 lie sailed Tor France May
this year. lie ana his company
participated In an engagement In
the Chateau -ThicrJy, sector. near
scissors Tho story ~ the advance
OF his company IL told In a letter
from him written in tho hospital:
"Our command moved over tho
top at a. m. The enemy lmmedl-
ately opened fire upon us and the
whole area was made bright aa day
by rockets uf various descriptions
with our bayOncts We captured ma
chine guns. artillery OF all forms and
~ constant stream Of German sol
dlerH
Il got two miles without being
hit This brought mo To the crest
Of tho hill overlooking tho German
positions Here lost few men out
OF my company by shrapnel fire
The men began to crawl Though q
wheat field. Instantly. howeytr, ma
chine guns opened up upon us Here
| got half spent bullet In my left
thigh. We continued our progress
after we had located German OBJ
server and made him pay for his
observation with his lie our prog
ress continued very 9dridly until the
enemy let down Fab barragc. We
lost considerable men here A
shrRpncl gun OF tho enemy fired
seven times az me without injury. |
but with the eighth ] thought my
legs we're torn from my body
Many Serious Wounds
zone huge piece OF shell went into |
my right thigh, smaller pieces into |
my head and left arm. | placed one |
" my lieutenants In command and |
told two OF my orderlles 10 drag me |
10 a shell hole. This was about a. |
m. and when ! got to this hole l
was unconscious"
Later after being harrasse1 by |
enemy bullets upon every movement |
that revealed 10 the enemy he was
living the Kansas man managed TO
crawl one mile In one day without
food ana water and wns picked up
by an ammunition clerk and taken
10 a first aid station and thence 20
he hospital
has Remarkable Courage.
Mrs Hanbery's courageous spirit
rom the beginning ~ her husbands
enlistment which prompted her 10
AXE the platform and beg Of the
somcn 70 brace up and not send
their men 10 war like whipped
logs was noticed by military Of
'lcers who requested her 10 speak
% the soldiers and their women
relatives whenever possible and
iproad gospel OF courage and
'heer Her habit " optimism sus-
aimed her when the report OF her
death reached her She
sent him away 10 live. she said, and .
'he would not give him up
Mrs Hanbery has talked 10 the
ioldiers at camp Green. Camp Minis. |