The sun., 1918-10-04
CITY MAGISTRATE
HARRIS'S SON KILLED
Lieutenant, Graduate Of Har-
ward Law School, Died Soon
After Being Wounded.
LONG LINE OF VETERANS
Sergeant Kimblc, Missing, Is
Fourth Generation to Fight
for United States.

Lieut. Thomas Adds Emmett Harris.
son Of City Magistrate Charles n. Har-
ris and grandson OF DR.. Thomas Adds
Emmett, died In France September 6
from wounds received in action the same
day. Lieut.. Harris was an officer Of the
sOsth Machine Gun Battalion. He was
4 graduate of Harvard Law School in
he class of 1911 and had previously
studied at Georgetown College and CO.
iumbia Law School.
Lieut. Harris was q member of Squad
ron A, n. @. n. Y, and had served six
months on the Mexican border. He OBJ
tanned his commission at the Piattsburg
training camp in 1917 and went to
France with the Seventy-seventh Divi-
SION IN April last. He lived with his
parents at 100 East seventy-seventh
street
Major Frank A. Sloan. gassed, was
attached TO the 305th Infantry. He
wrote to his family that he expects to
be back In action soon. Major Sloan is
we'll known In political and social circles
and is a stepson OF Con. Nelson II.
Henry, former Acknowledgement of the
state and one time Surveyor Of the
Port He Is a graduate of ST. Johns
From Fighting Family.
Sergeant Edward Charles Kimble
missing in action, comes from a long
line Of fighters. His great-grandfather
Capt. Benjamin Kimble, was killed in
he War of the Revolution. and his
father and grandfather were veterans of
the civil war. Sergeant Kimble was at
,aehed to the 30sth Infantry. and a
brother. Frank. is also in France with
the Forty-ninth Infantry.
Mrs. Edward Klein. 124 Allen street.
mother OF Corporal Philip Stern, who is
Iiso reported missing In action. recently
'eceived a letter from another son, Ben
amin, of the 306th Artillery, saying
hat Philip had been captured. but prob
Ibly was safe.
Private James W. DAILY. killed in ac-
on, was reported as having been gassed
March 81. He was a member of Com
amy X, 165th Infantry. and previous to
'olning the Sixty-ninth had served on
he Mexican border as a sergeant in the
Seventy-hrst. In a letter to his sister,
Mrs z. v. King, 1929 Third avenue,
written a day or two before his death,
he said: '-If don't come back. sis. re-
member have done my BIT"
Private William s. Ely. killed In ac-
ton came all the way back frpm Ar
nent- A letter received by his family in
flushing from a comrade in arms said
hat he had been killed at a Red Cross
neld hospital during an air raid.
Fighting Goth Loses Eight.
Eight additional casualties at the bat
lie Of the Ourcq in the fighting Sixty
ninth were reported in yesterdays off,
eiai lists.
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when his company crossed the river I'm
der German infantry fire. He enlisted
a. . private In the Seventh Regiment In
APRIL 1917. and transferred to the Six
ly-ninth q month later In the hope OF
seeing quicker action. He was wounded
and gassed in the fighting last March
and was two months in n hospital
When he recovered he Joined his regi-
.nent a sergeant. only to meet hts death,
tho Ourcq. He was the only son OF
Mrs. L. r. Ross, $50 West lesth street
Another member OF the same regiment
t;lled Is Sergeant Charles a. Connolly,
3, $50 West Fifty-third street Ser
-sant Connolly was an attendant at the
american Museum of Natural History
When he enlisted
Corporal George Z. Duffy. killed In
action July 2s, Joined the Sixty-ninth
hen war was declared. He lived at
-09s Third avenue. Corporal Joseph A.
Dunnlgan, 1914 Simpson street, The
Sronx. also of the Sixty ninth. has been
oiled. He vas a brother OF State Sena-
or John J. Dunnigan and Of the Rev.
.snes II. Dunnigan. a chaplain In the
.iviation Corps, stationed at Garden
lily. who yesterday conducted a solemn
"cTuiem mass at the Church OF St John
'hrysostom. A sister, Miss Ethel Dun
'lSan. Is serving as q woman in the
Ivy. Corporal Dunning leaves a widow.
'rhom he married at Camp Mills Just be-
ore going overseas. He had been In the
Slvty-nfnth for years and had served OH
ls Mexican border. He was killed at
.hateau Thierry July Is.
Three privates from the same troop
we're killed in action and a fourth died OF
ounds. They arc Terrence McCree. eli
Kent street, Greenpoint; Carlton Ellis,
.l's Forty-second street, Brooklyn; Ste
nhen Curtin, SO William street. Long
STAND City. and Attic Manfred, 591
sixth avenue, Brooklyn.
Missing sailor Is Well.
william G. Morrisey, 1s9 Montague
rect. Brooklyn. whose son, William G. |
dorrisey. Jr.. a sailor, was reported
Kissing after the steamship Buena Ven |
IRA was torpedoed of the coast Of Spain. |
eceived cable from Brest yesterday
1aounclng that his son was alive and
ell.
Corporal Fletcher Battles 90, killed |
= action. was a member OF New fork's ,
1eg'o regiment, the Fifteenth Infantry, ,
nd had been decorated with the French |
Var Cross for gallantry in action. /
Nter reaching France he was trans !
fsrred TO the Ss9th Infantry. He lived |
- IS West Ninety-ninth street.
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College Head to Become Chspiais.
hrpp1EBrRr. VT, Oct 3.-John II.
'hornas, president OF Mlddlebury Col
'ge, has left for Camp Zachary Taylor, (
ouisville, KY. where he will enter the |
my Training School for Chaplains. .
rot Charles Baker Wright assumed Of |
''s to-day as acting president OF the
'Jllese
6o4 Disabled Soldiers Return.
WAsHiSGroS, Oct. 3.-Durinx the
week ended September ~ 654 sick and
Tounded soldiers from the American Ex-
psditionary Forces were landed in the
rnited States. the War Department to-
uay announced.
MzM..zzelA!4y |
VELOURS for CRISPDAYS