The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-16
FORMER COLLEGE PROFESSOR HAS
 GREAT RECORD
Capt. L. W. Miles of Prince. town Loses Leg In
 Battle.

A cablegram from Ambassador Sharp received at Princeton Univer- sity recently reported the satisfactory progress in a Paris hospital of Capt. L. Wardlaw Miles, who was severely wounded Sept. 4.
 Capt. Miles was professor of Eng fish literature at Princeton when the United States entered the war, and has given a heroic account of himself as fighting man. His left leg has been amputated below the knee, and in the action in which the leg was injured both his arms were broken.
 At the declaration of war Capt. Miles obtained leave of absence from his university post, and after three months at training camp went to France as a lieutenant Last June he was offered captaincy and an assign ment back in this country as an in- structor. He declined, preferring to remain with his company Within two months he received the captaincy for heroic leadership. A letter reach ing Princeton Monday from one of Captain Miles brother officers said: While at Princeton and a student l under him I held him in high esteem, ] but since have been in the same reg l iment with him and have fought with him, side by side, I have never seen anything to equal his high idealism and splendid devotion to his country's cause"
 Honor is reflected also upon Prince 1 ton in the death of Sergeant Reuben M. T. Peterson of the 3O6th Machine | Gun Company. He was killed in &C., | tion Aug. 27. In a letter home, writ ten three days earlier, he said he was in the front line trenches and was about to start into No Mans Land in an endeavor to capture a hidden Ger man machine gun which was annoying l his regiment. He was graduated from the Flushing High school and after ward went to Princeton, engaging in civil engineering after his graduation. Last January he married Miss Elsa KirpaE, daughter of Mrs. F. J. Kirpal, 140 Barclay street, Flushing.
 Robert Augustine Slattery, 26, a corporal in the 51st Infantry, reported Monday dead from wounds, is believ- ! ed to be the first member of the New ork police departent killed in the war.
  | his other, Mrs. Alice Slattery 806 Hinton avenue, The Bronx, he died Sept. 14. Police Commissioner En- right has written Mrs. Slattery a let ter in which he said: His memory will occupy a splendid niche in the hictory of the Police Department"
 Corporal Slattery was drafted June "A. He was a patrolman attached to the staff of the Fourth inspection dis trict, with headquarters at the West 68th street station. He was member of the parish of the Church of St. Anselm, 151st street and Hinton ave- Name Society.
 MT. and Mrs. John Campson, 371 Campson street, Brooklyn, have re- ceived letter from their 16-year-old son, Thomas, wounded Sept. 5, written from a hospital in England Sept. "A. A bullet struck his left shoulder. "l cannot use either the arm or shoul- der" wrote Thomas, "but I think am very fortunate at that, because l saw five comrades near me killed in- stantly by a bomb dropped from an enemy plane. I don't mind staying here in this hospital,' he adds, "as most of the doctors are Americans also the nurses. They treat all the boys grand"
 Young Campson enlisted in the 23rd Regiment in Brooklyn in 1917, saying that he was 19 years old. He was later transferred to Company H, 106th Infantry.