The Washington times., 1918-11-22

My guards sat on either side of me
with loaded guns.
FINALLY, three miles from our desti-
nation / caught one guard half dozfnE
and when the other turned his h sSd
I dove for the window. which was not
more than Is by "a inches. The train
was making about forty miles an hour
when leaped, landing on the steel
ties and for a few minutes being stun
ned. The injury j felt the most was in
my knees, which ] could hardly bend.
struggled to my feet, shuffling off
toward the hill and forest a few hun
bred yards away.
"By this time the train had Stopped,
the guards had started In pursuit, and
had opened fire on me. I kept on 60
ing as long as could. and finally,
finding that the guards were but
seventy-five yards away, I threw up
my hands to surrender. One of the
guards had just fired. the bullet pass
ing between my ear and shoulder.
Hardly had I stopped than they
were on me. One guard. grasping his
gun by the muzzle, struck me over
the head as / lay on the hill. / re-
member rolling down hill, gaining ad-
ditional impetus from their boots.
They kicked me until I got up, and
knocked me down again. Finally. one
Of the guards struck me on the back
of the head. breaking his gun. The
beating and kicking continued until
we reached the prison camp. where /
collapsed on the guardhouse porch.
"on coming to my senses I was
greeted by the commandment a porkish
looking individual and typically Prus-
sian, who beloved in German that
said They sent for a German doc
would be shot. L speak no German,
but an interpreter told me what he
IL I attempted to escape again ]
tor and he swathed me with paper
bandages. r.
Eaten. By Vermin.
Then they put me In one of the
guard cells; for three days / could
not move and the yermin that in
Tested the place made II almost un-
bearable. My body was covered witn
large red eruptions from German
fieas, which found 70 be as poison
Gus as German propaganda.
about the sixth day I was in this
cell / was given a court-martial-at
least ! viii call II such-and there
were three officers, who, after ques-
tioning me, decided that I should
have two weeks SOLITARY confinement.
But they never stopped the food and
books that were sent to me by some
American officers. However, when I
came out of the cell, / weighed 120
pounds, having lost 30. Thanks to
Red Cross food. I built myself up and
got myself in good physical trim.
"Realizing that I had secured con-
siderable information that was val
liable to the service / began to con-.
slider fresh plans for escape. Three
of these plans fell through, due to
treachery. There must have been
some spies among the Russian Of
ficers, who gave our plans to the
Germans All of the orderlies were
Russian, and the Russian officers In
the prison included every variety,
from the regulars captured in 1919
to some Boishevlki. We could trust
no one"
Isaaes, with remarkable persevrr-
erCs and pluck. persisted, however,
in MS efforts to escape, until they
were finally successful. he and sew
craI officers eluding their guard. al
though they were fired on, and reach
ing The Rhine, swan that stream in
the vicinity Of Heuenstein and found
themselves on Swiss territory. Tic
Swiss turned them ove- to the Ameri-
can LEGATION at Bernie, and IsaacS
proceeded back tos this country. by
way OF Faris and Lon.ioE, arriving "a
New York on November 0.
Isaacs was born on August Is, 1891.
la Arkansas. from which State he
Nas appointed to Annapolis In 1oll-