Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-16
PRAISE TROOPERS
FOR HEROIC WORK
Officials Express Apprecia-
tion For Services Perform
ed During Epidemic

WiIkea-Barre, Nov. 16.-As a means
of expressing to members of the four
troops of State Police the apprecia-
tion of the Harrisburg officials for
the daring and glorious work per-
formed blythe troopers during the
epidemic of influenza, Superintendent
G.. +. Lumb is making tour of in
spection of the troops, calling the
men of each troop together and per-
sonally telling them that their re-
cent heroism and work has not gone
unnoticed by their superiors nor by
the executive officers of the Common
wealth superintendent Lumb ana
Deputy superintendent Leon 5. Pitch-
er held an official inspection of
Troop b at Wyoming and the super
intendent expressed the states APP
probation to the men Immediately
following.
Six privates and one sergeant of
the State Police gave their lives IN
the performance of humanitarian duty
during the epidemic. superintendent
Lumb said Three of these. Sergeant
Remaley and Privates Brown and
jackson, were members of Troop b
at Wyoming.
superintendent Lumb said that the
State Police eXemplitied the hnest
ideals of military and police duty
during the recent epidemic. and that
the stase will never be forgotten by
those in the service or by the public
of the afflicted communities. Men OF
each of the four troops performed all
kinds of service, the superintendent
said some serving as nurses, others
assisting physicians and nurses in
caring for the sick and ding, some
drove automobiles for the workers on
formed household duties and prepar-
ed food for families in which the
mother and father had been stricken
and the children We're either too
young or too sick to care for them-
selves and the patients.
At some places the troopers found
horrifying conditions and one instance
is cited by the superintendent where
his men entered home where VIC
tim had been dead for two days and
little children sat crying on the floor
alongside the body, while in another
room the mother of the children lay
at the point of death with no one To
care for her or the children. 1t was
such duty as this that the state Po-
lice performed with cheerfulness.
bravery and unparalleled devotion TO
duty. Superintendent Lumb explain
ed and his visit to Troop p is the
only means he can find to show the
men of the local troop that their no
BILE work at Exeter. Glen Lyon, Pitts
ton and other towns of Luzerne
county has not been overlooked by
their superors. Officially. too, a
memorial service to the memory of
Troops Brown and Jackson and Ser
geant Remaley will be held.
With seven state Troopers victims
of the Flu" and two others murder
ed while in the performance of their
duty, the casualty list of the force
for the first ten months of 1918 num-
bers nine men, superintendent Lump
explained and added that the loss of
life in the service is n cause of deep
regret and sorrow to the men and Of
ticers of the State Police. Trooper
John Dargus, of Inkerman, for sew
eral years before his entry into the
service q noted athlete, was shot and
killed by a negro near Struthers,
intendent Lumb said last evening that
the State Police lived up to their repu-
tation as man-hunters and that the
search for this negro who murder
ed Dargus extended all over the ma
tion. A constable in a little town in
Alabama CHANGED to receive one of the
circulars and recognized the 1esemb
there the day before under another
name. The constable wired to Har-
risburg: II have your man, have you
the $200?" Sufficient to say that the
constable received the 5000 and the
murderer was recently convicted of
first degree murder at Struthers,
Ohio, and is awaiting execution.
during the year was Andrew Cap.
of Swoyerville. who was killed near
Tide, Indiana county. about five
months ago by an Italian highway
man, who had held up other Italians
following a poker game and robbed
them of S1,500. This Italian. like the
Ohio negro. was caught and convicted.