The sun., 1918-10-15
PROFESSOR MAKES
RECORD AS FIGHTER
Capt. L. w. Miles, Princeton,
Loses One Leg and Breaks
Both Arms in Battle.
DECLINED HOME DETAIL
Refused to Act as Instructor
and Won Commission on
the Field.
DECLINED HOME DETAIL

A cablegranl from Ambassador Sharp
received at Princeton University yes
terday reported the satisfactory prog
ress In n Paris hospital Of Capt l..
wardlaw Miles. who was severely
wounded September 4.
Capt Miles was a professor Of English
literature at Princeton when the United
States entered the war. and has given
"a heroic account OF himself as q fghting
man. Ills left log has been amputated
below the knee. ana 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 uni
versity post, and after three months at
~ training camp went to France as q
Lieutenant. Last June he was offered
q Captaincy and an assignment back
In this country as an Instructor. He
declined, preferring TO remain with his
company. Within two months he re-
eeived the Captaincy for heroic leader
ship. a letter reaching Princeton yes
ierGsy from one OF Capt. Miless brother
officers said:
while at Princeton and n student
under him held him in high esteem.
but since / have been In the same regi-
ment with him and have fought with
him, side by side, have never seen
anything to equal his high idealism and
splendid devotion to his country's
cause"
Another Princeton Man Killed.
Honor is reflected also upon Prince
ton In the death of Sergeant Reuben
NJ. 7. Peterson of the 30Sth Machine
Gun Company. He was killed In action
August ~. In a letter home. written
three days earlier, he said he was in
the front line trenches and was about
TO start into No Mans Land In An en-
deavor to capture a hidden German ma
chine gun which was annoying his regi-
ment. He was graduated from the Flush
ing High School and afterward went to
Princeton. engaging In civil engineering
after his graduation. Last JANUARY he
married Miss Elsa Kirpal, daughter Of
Mrs. F. J. Elrpal. 140 Barclay street,
Flushing.
Robert Augustine slattery, &c. a cor
poral in theFHty-frs Infantry. reported
yesterday dead from wounds. Is believed
TO be the first member of the Rev York
Police Department killed In the war.
According to tho telegram received by
his mother. Mrs Alice slattery. SOC
linton avenue. The Bronx. he died Sep
tember II. Police Commissioner En-
right has written Mrs. Slattery a letter
IN which he said: His memory will &C.
cupy n splendid niche In the history OF
the Police Department"
Corporal Slattery was drafted June "a.
He was patrolTnRn attached to the
staff Of the Fourth Inspection district,
with headquarters at the West Sixty
eighth street station. He was a member
of the parish OF the Church of st.
Anselm, list street and linton avenue,
The Bronx, and Of the Holy Name So
ciety.
Saw Five Slain by Bomb.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Campson. al
Campson street. Brooklyn. have received
a letter from their slxteen-year-old son.
Thomas, wounded September 6. written
from a hospital In England September
81, A bullet struck his left shoulder.
81 cannot use either the arm or Shout
der" wrote Thomas, but I think / am
very fortunate at that, because / saw
I've comrades near me killed instantly
by n bomb dropped from an enemy plane.
] don't mind staying here In this hos
pftal." he adds, ''as most Of the doctors
are americans. also the nurses. They
treat all the boys grand"
Young Campson enlisted In the
Twenty-thlrd Regiment In Brooklyn In
1917. saying that he was 10 years old.
1Ie was later transferred to Company
u, 106th Infantry.
Private Benjamin W. Roth. a former
postal clerk, drafted last spring to the
aO7th Infantry. was killed September 8.
us relatives. 235 East Eighty-ffth
street. received a letter from him dated
Geptember 1 In which he said he was
returning from the trenches for n rest
camp after having been In several skir-
mshes. Members of his family believe
fhe report OF his death Is an error. UNI
Legs lie was killed In an airplane raid or
by barrage which caught his detach-
Msnt as 1t was leaving for the rear.
Killed in Pause of Battle.
Lieut.. LYMAN Frieberg. l31st Infan-
Try. killed in action, was resting with his
company In an apple orchard some dis
ta1ce In the rear OF the firing line when
he was struck by fragment OF an ex-
Co'cge OF the City OF New York and
was employed by Ansel & Co., bankers.
62 Broadway. He lived with his parents
ut l47 Lenox avenue. August he wrote
OF having passed safely through three or
four big engagements.
Lieut. Lester Wallace Kearn, killed in
action, lived with his foster mother, Mrs
Thomas A. Wilson. 551 West 1S0th
street. He was drafted in August, 1917,
and went TO France as private in Com
rany !, 106th Infantry, last April. He
won his commission last July, He studied
* St Stephens College. Annandale,
y. Y. and was about to enter a Protest.
amt Episcopal seminary to study for the
ministry when he was drafted.
THE Blue and the Gray division,
which includes the Asbury Park, ". j.,
troops, was heavily engaged in the
Nosgcs September 16. according TO cas-
ualty notices. These twelve Asbury Park
boys were wounded, degree undeter-
mined: Sergeant william L. Paterson,
Corporals Arthur n. Clarity and Stanley
Cranmer Privates Everett Snyder, Rob-
EFT Tuzenew, Eugene Slocum. Clifford
Norris. Alvin Hubbard. Leon Gardner,
Eugene J, Clarity, Carl Chamberlain and
rriah Matthews.
Ernest Washington Porter, Newark,
killed with the marines, was a son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest W. Porter, 3Il
verona avenue. Newark. He enlisted
april II, 1917. and went 10 France with
the nrst expedltionary force az n mem
Der OF the Twenty-third Company, Sixth
Machine Gun Battalion, Fifth Marine
Regiment. He was born In Rutherford,
put went 10 Newark when n lad and was
educated In the Central High School
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