The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-09-19
GOT THIRTY HUNS
BEFORE He DIED
scoTTY, YOUNGEST SOLDIER IN
PERsHINes FORCES, is
o. MouRNED BY ARMY.
HIS HEROIC DEATH RELATED
Red Cross Establishes Tailor Shop In
Berne to Supply Captured American
Officers With uniforms-New Plan
for Training Flyers.

From Committee on Public Intormatlon.)
Washington.-Private Albert +.
Scott, the youngest soldier in General
Pershlng's army In France-he was
but fifteen years of age and Brook
line, Mass, high school boy when he
enIisie6-is dead, shot through the
head by German sniper after he had
laid thirty foes to rest, and the army
mourns its boy hero.
A soldier writer for The Stars and
Stripes, the A. E. F. paper, tells this
story:
"In the regiment they are talking
these days of all the good pals they
lost in the fierce, unfortgettable chase
they gave the Germans in the great
retreat from the Marine. But most of
ala little oftener and bit more
fondly--they talk of Scotty.
'He was a good kid, they say. and
he died on his gun.
His great chance came when on
that historic July is his regiment got
the order for which, through many a
month of dreams, it had longed-the
order to advance. 1t went 1S kilome-
tiers without stopping, chasing the Boche
up hill and down dale, fighting its way
through patch after patch of inviting
woods that would prove treacherous
with hidden machine guns.
I'm the first days of that battle. the
movement was SO swift that more than
once small German rear guard and an
advance Yank platoon would meet in
the forest and fight out then and there
complete and separate battle all their
own. So it was with the Indians, as
Sc0tty's regiment was nicknamed, one
afternoon, as they were making their
way past the bitterly won town Of
Epleds. n.. .na.
AT the cross road they saw troops
approaching them in column of squads.
| The officer in charge caught them in
the focus of his field glasses. They
were Boches, coming on. The Yanks
waited, itching to open fire, but biding
their time. Suddenly the Boches de-
serted the road and came on them
| through the forest.
The lieutenant placed his men along
roadside ditch. He placed Scotty
and his sho-sho beside a tree and
squarely opposite a narrow woodland
path that opened across the way. He
could see straight down that path, and
the BOChes were bound either to come
along it or to cross it.
See that path, ScOtty? said the
! lieutenant. That's your target. Not
one Of them must cross it,
Eyes, sir said Scotty, and dropped
beside his gun.
'Then from the high branches of
many a tree and from many a shelter
the German fire opened, and the Yank
, fire answered.
"A gray figure darted suddenly into
the leafy path. He fell.
Another appeared. He fell.
There was perhaps ten minutes of
that, and what was left Of the German
party was Withdrawing when handful
| OF soldiers scampered along the road
They were Germans, but they shouted
as they ran, Don't shoot, we're Amer.
| icans.' ......
For moment, Just for the space
that a breath is held, Scotty thrust his
head up to see. From his perch in
some tree a sniper shot him In the
forehead. Another bullet found his
heart. He fell forward, dead, on his
gun. ..T
! ''They had killed him, but the mum.
d, Der Of their dead that are counted as
his was thirty" ..