The Washington herald., 1918-03-04
BOY
DEAD0N LAST
CASUALTY LIST
Leo ]. Osborne, but for
Censor, Had Strange
Tales to Tell.
WAS IN GOOD SPIRITS
Recent Letter to Mother
Told He Was Well
and Happy.

More than a month elapsed pet"ee"
the time of Corp. Lee ]. OSBORNE
death in France and the receipt ei
The news Of his death by relatives III
Washington.
According to the Committee on Pub
lie Information, Corp. Osborne, whose
mother lives at 343 Eleventh street
southeast. died January ., lslS.
Yesterday. just thirty-three days
after the soldier boys death, came the
tidings to his mother. There had not
even been an intimation of his illness
yet Corp. Osborne had died OF cry
sipelas.
troubles with French telegraphers
and the attendant difficulty in secur'
ing names with absolute certainty ol
accuracy is the chief reason offered
Fpr the DELAY by the Committee on
Public Information. Such delays, OF
nciaIs Of the committee say, may hap
pen at any time.
Brought Up Here.
CorpI. Osborne was born and brought
I'D in Washington. He attended the
ranch, Tyler and Buchanan public
schools. Later, became paperhang-
or and decorator. He was > years old
The family home Is at S43 Eleventh
street southeast
Fl After serving three terms Of enlist
unent IN the District National Guard
and having seen service in Mexico
with Pershing. Osborne enlisted for a
fourth time last August, to do his
part in this war.
''He always said ne was proud
mother raised him to be a soldier.
said his brother Raymond. yesterday
At the end of his training at Fort
Myer. and after being transferred &c
camp Merritt and Camp Mills. Os'
borne was assigned to the 1SSrd In
fantry. Fourty-first Division Of tht
American expeditiOnary force.
About the death Of CorpL Osborne
there were in his mothers mind sew
rraI strange features. On the night
OF the Tuscania's sinking. che dream
ed that she saw him dying, though
she knew that he was already in
France.
He was lying in bed, very weak
with the covers all drawn up around
his chin she said. II asked him il
ne knew me and he said, Yes, moth
err"
In a picture he had taken a short
time ago one of his comrades was il
the act of placing his hand on Os
boTne's shoulder. In the photograph
this apparently detached spectra
hand forms the high light reachinG
out as if about to grasp the young
soldier.
Young Osborne's last letter to hi
mother. written before he fell i'll
breathes courage and optimism.
''I'lI have a great story to tell yol
when / get home, mother" he says
but the censor won't let me tel
you now. There is one thing tina
/ can tell you'll am well and happy
This is a nice country for anyone
that like it,
Then he asks about the family.
The letter mentions the l9-year-olC
brother. We'll, has Ambrose joineC
the army yet? Don't let him. He i!
too young. Let some of the Older
men go. the ones who can stand hard,
ships and hard knocks. There art
plenty OF them left. This isn't any
picnic over here. you know"
Corporal Osborne's i've brothers anC
three sisters all live in the city They
are Miss Lola Osborne, employed il
- the Bureau of Markets. Department
of Agriculture; Miss Ada Osborne
employed in-the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing; Mrs. Genevieve Wey
rich, of S25 Fifth street northeast
Harry Osborne, a worker in tn,
Navy Yard: George and Bernard Os
borne, both employees of the Postof
fce Department; Raymond Osborne
a sophomore at Georgetown Medica
school, and Ambrose Osborne, EN-
ployed in the ofice of the Quarter
master General.
While on the Mexican border, Os
borne had a throat infection whicI
caused him to be sent to Walter ReeC
: Hospital
II believe that sickness had s,
weakened his resisting powers tina
he succumbed easily to erysipelas
said the brother who is studyin,
medicine.
Casualty List.
The latest casualties reported b
Gen PershinS are:
KILLED IN ACTION.
Lieut. Harold F. Eadie, TiIton, \
H.; Private Edgar Parsons, Obid.
". c.; Sergt. Anthony Amode
Baltimore; Private Harry ]. Henry
Logansport, Ind; Sergt. Joseph +
Chaisson, Derby. Maine: Priyat
Mathew Bew, Fayette, North Da
kota; Corpl. Eph Boggs, Red Jack
ct. West Virginia; Thomas S. Har
desty, cook, FL Paso, Texas; Privat
Hugh Weatherman, Beaman, Iowa
DEATHS,
Private Wiley Jefferson Macy, pneu
monia. Birmingham. Ala; Privat
Walter E Heinz, emoyeula, Crane
Oregon; Private Willie Miller, pneu
rnonia, De Funiak Springs, Fla; Pri
vate Robert r. Bayard, Eunsho
wounds In head, Dedham, Mass.
Private Thomas J. Quirk, pneumonia
lowell, Mass: Corp. John j. Crow
'cy. wounds. Wakefield, Mass: Pri
+, vate Harley B. salzman. Embolisnn
Teach. North Dakota; Corn. Leo ]
osborne. erysipelas, Washington, d
-: Private Alfred H. CIapp, tubercu
Iosis. West Union, Iowa; Privat
Artie o. Ledbetter. sareonna, Eliza
bethtown. H.: Private Albert c. Mar
n,r