The sun., 1918-08-17

with the Marines and is recovering from
wounds in an American base hospital in
France.
A letter dater July IS from Private
Samuel Crandeli. machine gun battalion.
Fourth Infantry, which was received re-
Gently leads his father, Isador. 16l Maui
jer street. Brooklyn. to believe he Is
alive, although the War Department re-
ported his death in action July %. The
letter recently received states that Gran
dell saw action In the battle OF the
Marine and for time was lost. The
letter was written on Y. NJ. c. A. paper
and read in part:
Just a few lines to let you know that
have returned from the battle of the
Marine River. l was twice at the front.
and thank God. ] am well. and you can
expect more news soon when am back
in my company. I was lost"
Private Joseph ]. Bernat. "a. son Of
Michael Bernat, 9S North Ninth street.
Brooklyn, severely wounded in action,
was drafted in April and sent from
Camp Upton to Company 1, loSth In
fantry which went overseas In May.
Last month his mother received her first
and only letter from him. in which he
bade all the members Of his family good
by and said that he never expected to
see them again. Before being drafted
Rernat tried to enlist in the navy, but
was rejected.
Death I'm Action Indicated.
Mr. and Mrs. William Bolhoefer Of 8
Campion avenue, Jamaica. have received
a letter from a friend Of their son. AL
fred Bollhoefer. a private in Company
G, Seventh Infantry. which leads them
to believe that he has been killed In
France.
Samuel ID. Hitch Of the machine gun
company of the same regiment wrote
referring to their sons great misfortune.
saying in part:
Il guess you have received the news
of your unfortunate son. l found Some
letters near where he met his great mis-
fortune, and also some pictures of him
and the folks at home. l thought II no
more than should do to send on the
letters which he had written and ad-
dressed
The Bollhoefers have written to the
War Department several times, but have
received no reply. Private Bollhoefer
was IS. and sailed for France last April
A brother, William c., is in the Medical
Corps.
Andrew Fatscher, private, killed in &C.
ton, left a taxicab business in Valley
Stream and Lynbroek to enter the army
He sailed for France In January. Re-
quiem mass was sung for him in St
Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Valley
Stream, yesterday.
Private James ]. Murphy. who en-
listed in the Fourth New Jersey Regi-
ment. was severely wounded July is.
His mother is Mrs. Ellen Murphy, As
Yale avenue. Jersey City.
soldier Has Been Rover.
Private Andrew J. Vending. 81, seri-
ously wounded. previous to his enlist
ment in the 1O2d Infantry lived with
his father and mother at 23I6 Belmont
avenue, The Bronx. Young Vending
has beeh a rover for several years and
at the time of the Mexican trouble was
travelling through the Southwest. One
day his mother received a letter from
him which bore Mexican postmark.
She opened 1t and learned for the first
time that he had enlisted. When the
troops came home he sailed for over
seas.
Mrs. Vending received a telegram
advising her OF the boys injury, but
she was not alarmed. as she had an
intuition that the wound was not seri-
Gus. August 16 she received a letter
saying he had been hit In The foot, but
was able to move about on crutShes In
one corner Of the letter was notat!on~
in a strange hand. 1t sa' Your son
is a lovely and brave soldier" and was
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