The sun., 1918-10-20
Son of Morgan Partner Left
Staff Duty to Return to
Machine Guns.
CAPTAIN GILL KILLED
Lieutenant Torch Wounded,
Watches Painful Opera
ton on Leg.

terday by his father, William II. Porter.
. member Of the firm of J. p, Morgan q
Co When he arrived In France Lieut..
Porter was assigned to star duty. but his
keen desire to get into the trenches led
him to apply for q transfer back to ac-
tive service. His request was granted
ana he was killed while fighting with his
battalion In the Argonne on October s.
Lieut.. Porter was ~ years old. He
was graduated from Princeton Univer-
stty In 1911 and from the Harvard Law
School In 1914. winning scholastic honors
In both his academic and law courses.
After taking his degree Of LII B. he
became associated with the law firm OF
White q Case. His work for the latter
arm gave promise OF a brilliant future.
Lieut. Porter served five months on
The Mexican border and later attended
che irst officers training school at
Piattsburs. In December, 1915. he was
married to Miss Margaret Kelly. He Is
survived by his wife and daughter.
Capt. Robert 8. GILL who died of
wounds received in action on September
-. lived with his wife. Mrs. Ethel Gill,
at the Hotel Gonfarone. ITO Macdougal
street. He was graduated third among
$500 students ut the second Piattsburg
Omcers Training School and was as
signed to Company r, 18th Infantry. Az
ter reaching France in January he was
placed In command Of Company X of the
Same regiment. He was 81 years old
Falls Leading Platoon.
Lieut. Louis Torch OF % Maujer street,
Brooklyn. fell while leading his platoon
In n surprise attack against the Germans
In the Argonne Forest on September Is.
When the surgeons undertook the painful
operation OF digging the shell fragments
out Of his left leg he refused to take an
snesthetic. In letter written to his
wife from his hospital cot he described
h. experiences In the following words:
1T was in the afternoon of September
~ when we surprised the Germans in
the Argonne Forest We drove them
back for a mile. One OF the large Ger
rnAn shells exploded several yards from
NJ. Four OF our men were killed and
ave wounded. including myself. I was
cArrted to the base hospital with my
other wounded comrades and we were
quickly operated on. Really I was only
TOO glad to shed my blood for my coun-
Try. It took the doctors more than an hour
to rid me Of the fragments Of steel that
lodged in my left leg about four inches
above my knee.
Believe me. can't wait to get back
TO my company. I am anxious to get
INTO the scrimmage again and get even"
Lieut.. Torch IL veteran Of the Span
ish-American war. 1t did not take him
long to answer his country's call for
men after the declaration Of war against
Germany. Giving up his Job as a guard
In the Tombs prison he entered the
Plattsburg training camp. After winning
his commission he was stationed for a
time in Texas training camp. He
sailed for France last July.
Welded Just Before He Sailed.
Just before he sailed for France last
spring Lieut.. John w. Mcconnell, re-
ported killed In action August 20. was
married to Miss Margaret Atkinson of
Yonkers. The widow is now living with
her parents at 81 Lee avenue. Lincoln
Park. suburb of Yonkers.
Lieut.. Mcconnell. while a reporter on
an Albany newspaper, took q course In
the Albany Law School, from which he
was graduated in 1918. He did not i'm
mediately take UP the practice Of his pro-
fession but continued In the newspaper
business until a few months before the
United States entered the war, when he
came to this city to esta blish law office.
In the spring Of 1877 he endsavored to
enter an officers training camp but was
disqualified because of defect In his
eyesiglt. ....rE
His eye trouble. although sufficient to
bar him from an officers training school
did not prevent him from being drafted
In September. 1917. He was sent to
Camp Upton and managed to win a
sergeants chevrons before his regiment
the 307th Infantry-sailed for France
last spring. He was commissioned a
month after reaching the other side He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs William
Mcconnell.
Lieut.. Stephen v. Hopkins, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin W. Hopkins OF Brook
Ign and Alpine, N. j.. Is In a base hos
pitai In France recovering from shrapnel
wounds. He prepared for college at the
Polytechnic Preparatory School, Brook
lyn. and was graduated from Yale In
1910. After taking his degree he became
a member Of the New York Sugar and
Coffee Exchange. In August, 1917, he
won his commission at Fort Myer. Va,
and for time was stationed at Camp
Lee. Petersburg, Va. He has been in
France since last May with Company L,
S1sth Infantry. Lieut.. Hopkins is a
member OF the Mayflower Society and
= the Hamilton Club.
Sergeant John Thomas, 90, of 1o47 In
tepvale avenue, Is reported killed in ac-
ton September IS. His mother, Mrs
HI. Wolf. believes, however, that a mis-
take has been made by the War Depart.
ment. She bases her hopes On n letter
postmarked october I, In which the ser.
geant inclosed a 800 Liberty Bond as
O present TO his sister, Anna who "a IN
When the United States declared war
Sergeant Thomas. then In the employ OF
+. A. Stone Co.. publishers. of 44s
Fourth avenue. enlisted In the 30sth
Field Artillery. In his last letter home
Sergeant Thomas concluded with the
words: II know now what war means, "
His brother Frank. FL, Is now at Camr
DIX.
Hassinger Lost in Air Fight.
Nothing has been heard OF Lieut.
Philips Hassinger. Second Pursuit
Group, Twenty-second Aero Squadron
since September IL, when he and Mint
other members of his group attacked ar
overwhelming force of German planes
In the St Mihiel salient. None of those
who watched the air battle from the
american lines saw Lieut. Hassingei
descend. His name was mentioned II
yesterdays casualty lists as amon5
those missing In action.
Lieut.. Hassinger lived at Mount Yer
non. Since his departure for the front
however, his family has moved to Pei
nam. He Is "a years old and q gradual,
OF Columbia University, class OF 1914
when tho Mexican trouble reached III
Crisis Ia 1915 Hassinger. who was theI
empioyed by the Kerr Steamship Com
let