The sun., 1918-07-11
DIED LIKE A MAN,
WAR FATHER SAYS
81 am Very Proud Of Chris" Is
Tribute to Soldier Killed
in Action.
CORPORAL AMONG MISSING
Better Dead Than in Hands of
Rermans, Declares Veteran
Brother.
AMONG MISSING

81 am very proud OF Chris. He Away
knew how to do his duty and he diet
like a man. I am satisfied that he could
not have died nobler death" The
speaker was Christopher Mohr. who wa'
notified yesterday by the War Depart
ment that his son, Corporal christopher
Alexander Mohr. Jr., was killed in actor
on Juno Q. According to the message he
died in a sortie by American troops who
stormed Belleau Woods. The American
soldiery had driven back the Germans
when the enemy turned and fired. Mohr
was killed In the fusillade.
Corporal Mohr was born in Hoboker
twenty-three years ago, and was edu-
Gated there. He left for Camp Dix last
September and was assigned to the
812th Infantry. After his training he
was ordered to France and had been In
the trenches for three months. He leaves
a father. mother. two sisters and two
brothers, one of tho latter OF whom Is In
the navy. Corporal Mohr was a Mason
and a member of tho Foresters OF
America.
Corporal Casey Missing.
Corporal Matthew Casey has been
missing in France since June Is, accord
ing to a despatch received at the home
OF his brother David, who lives at 226
West Sixty-seventh street. Corporal
Casey was born in ireland thirty-five
years ago. coming to this country when
he was l6. Up to the time Of his enlist
ment he was employed by the Dupont
Powder Company at Kearney's Point,
". J.
In January he enlisted in the Fourth
Pennsylvania Regiment Of National
Guard and trained with that regiment at
Fort Sam Houston in Texas Later he
was transferred to Company b OF the
Fourth United States Infantry and was
sent to France.
"It would be good for anything to
happen to him rather than to have him
captured by the Huns" said the missing
Corporal's brother yesterday. In fact
he would be better dead than in the
hands OF the Germans" David Casey
tho brother. is a Spanish War veteran
Of the Fighting Sixty-ninth."
Private Patrick Hearn. who was re-
ported IN yesterdays casualties as hav-
ing died of disease, Is not known at PA
West Sixth street, the address given.
Mother Proud of Boy.
Although I have had my cup of sor.
row overlooked in the last ten months.
said Mrs. May Mullen Of 327 East
Sixty-ninth street, when told of her sons
death in France. II am proud that my
boy died for his country. 1t seems a
shame that mothers have to have such
good boys taken away from them by this
cruel war. He was my only support
But the most regrettable thing about his
death ~ that for several months I have
been sending him small packages and
other necessities and his letters showed
that they were never received"
The boy referred to is Richard Josejt
Mullen. Company B. Ninth Infantry
who died OF wounds in France on June
81. Recently two letters were received
from him on the same day. although
dated two weeks apart. In one he said
Here am In France with the old Ninth
Regulars, the regiment that distln-
guished itself in the Spanish war and IL
China But the most Of the balance
OF the letter had been erased by the
censor
Mullen was % years old and was a
trained soldier. Five years ago he was
honorably discharged from the Sixty
ninth Infantry. New York National
Guard.