Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
TWO LIEUTENANTS
ADD TO WAR DEAD
Name of Philadelphia Pri-
vate Also on Latest Over
seas Report
l6 STATE MEN ON LIST
Officer From Chestnut Hill
and Wharton Street Sol
dier Wounded
l6 STATE MEN ON LIST

Lieutenant William Thomas Scott,
this city, a member Of Company A, 3osth
Infantry, Seventy-seventh Division, died
March 6 from wounds received in action
October I.
Lieutenant Scott was twenty-six years
old and single. He entered the army
nine years ago. When he was reported
wounded. October /, Mrs. Annie Gran
gel, his mother, c315 North Gratz street,
expected her son to recover.
After two months passed and she re-
ceived no word from him she began TO
doubt whether he was alive. A card
from the lieutenant written to his mother
February II, the only word from him
since he was wounded, bore one short
pathetic sentence, Mother, I am still
alive"
| When she received this Mrs. Grangel
realized the seriousness of her sons con.
dition.
| According to the War Department to-
day, Lieutenant Scott died in base hos
ptal 1873. A letter from the Red Cross
in answer to inquiries Of the mother has
been received saying the lieutenant is
still alive. However, this information
| is dlscredited because It Is thought to
have been transmitted from overseas
previous to March g.
Lieutenant Scott was we'll known in
! this city. When this country entered
the war he was stationed here as "a re-
cruiting sergeant. and later entered the
training school at Fort Niagara, where
he was commissioned While in this city
he posed for picture used by the Emer-
gency Aid to boost donations to the SOL
diers' tobacco fund
In November, 1917, he was transferred
from the training school to Camp Upton,
and sailed for overseas shortly after.
According to letters to the soldiers
mother from comrades. the officer was a
doughty fighter. He received his wounds
while attempting to get supplies to the
front line trenches under heavy fire.
After being wounded seven times in
the same day he was struck in the alb
domen by machine-gun bullet and had
to be taken to the rear When taken
to first aid station surgeons said there
was little hope for him.
Two others from here in the casualty
list today are reported dead. Private
Alfred Gross, son of Mrs. Gitel Gross
440 Tree street, has died OF wounds re
ceived in the final drive of the war. Lieu
tenant william J. Hennessy, fell a victim
to pneumonia after the armistce, accord
ing to the War Department. He was tn
son OF Mrs Rose Hennessy, 1920 Nortl
Third street.
, Lieutenant John Francis Packard
Chestnut Hill. and Private John Ciconne
Az Wharton street, are slightl
wounded. Only sixteen men from thi
state appear in the report.
The minop sections OF the casualtie
are omitted today and as a result thcr
are only seventy-three names on the ma
tons honor roll
: Much confusion was caused in til
case of Harry Webster Crowl, 434 Bry
Mawr avenue, when relatives were not
, fed he was dead and ten days late
. received another telegram saying tn
a first message was incorrect. The Wa
, Department explained that Crowl
name had become confused with anothe
, soldier of the same name.
o Investigation in the War Office i
4 Washington by the young mans fathe
, showed there were fourteen Crowls
. the army record. The report was gou
a over and the government finally classe
n the soldier as dead Later came tn
news that this classification was enron,
Gus. The War Office has no records
). show the whereabouts OF the soldit
:, since December 27. last.
J. Though in doubt as to the fate
: their son the parents are In mourning.