The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-02
WAR DEATH SHADOW
FALLS ON COBBLER
Father, Working at His Last,
Hears That Soldier Son
Is Killed.

Tomasso Bruno was mend!n= a pair Of
shoes in his little cobbler shop at 157
Voss avenue yesterday when mes
sengar boy came in with yellow
envelope and handed IT TO him He took
1t and stared at ii dumbly. for kilograms
had seldom come to him before. Finally
he opered the envelope, and taking out
the message went to one OF MS neigh
bors who could read.
Slowly the following was read 10 him ::
1.-THE War Department regrets to inform
you that Alfred Bruno, private. Com
pany L. Thirty-eighth Infantry. died
June OF wounds received in action"
Private Bruno was only IS when he en-
listed last July. In January he sailed
for France with his regiment. and In
letters received from him were accounts
of three trips ''over the top"
Private jeremiah Lynch OF 1853 Tenth
avenue Brooklyn, who died OF heart dis
ca Sc in France on JunC %. came to this
country from County Kerry six years
ago. He was drafted and sent to Camp
Upton last September. He was MEM
Der OF Battery A, 306th Field Artillery.
His father, who is 81 years old, and his
mother are still living in 1.-The old coun-
try" and he has a sister who lives a.
the Brooklyn address.
Private Dies OF Wounds.
Private Richard Hartigan of 81 Con-
gress street, Brooklyn. died of wounds
in France on June 10, according to
telegram received Friday by his mother
from the War Department. On the
me DAY she received letter from
Chaplain F. r. Duffy OF the 16bth In
fantry telling of her sons burial with
military honors
IT had Just stepped out OF a trench
and was talking when shell expioden
about eight yards away. l was MT IN
the neck and the thigh. but walked three
miles to the nearest frst aid station
This description was included in let
ter which Sergeant Michael De Mario
sent to his brother, who lives at a'f
Fifth street, Jersey City. The letter
was written from a base hospNai !"
France by an American nurse 10 whom
IL rad been dictated
De Mario was injured on May ~ ana
his name was included among the ser'-
ously wounded. He had been IN tne
army and reenlisted last summer III
Company C Of the Twenty-eignth IN.
fantry He went abroad win the hIe'
of the Revolutionary Forces. De Mario
was horn in Italy twenty-six years ago
and was brought to this country Wy NO
parents when an infant
Csney Island Represented.
Louis SPERM. known about toneS
Island as Louis the Newsboy,' is be-
ueyed to be the first man from una.
section of the city to be mentioned III
tbn casualty lists. He was reported
Yesterday as wounded in action. SPERM
enlisted in tho S0Sth Infantry iast De
cember and was sent overseas IN Apii,'
In TO that time he had been living WIN
his parents at 1926 West Ihirty-ni'h
street, Coney Island.
After being sent abroad ne was trans-
ferred to Company c, Fourth lhlah,Is,
and was serving with that resihert
when wounded. The news Oh mo
Jury was kept from his mother WHO 10
seriously i'll at home. E,.h
private John Skrjnick OF fouI,n
street. Passaic. mentioned as se'er1,s
wounded, is an Austrian by o,rh.
came 10 this country with MS fanny
shortly before the war and ehlis'eu ~
the Regular Army on June o, go 20.
Last January he was gassed' peii's hep'
in a hospital for elk weeks
private John Wilson. Jr' OF 30 rom
srov avenue. Kearny, n. j.. mas ue ,.,
severeIy wounded in action Young WI
son lie 9b wears old and went 10 lamp
Dix last september. sailing for inc ot ,,',
side in April. He has oro'he''
lam, IS. in the navy.