Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-20

Cuba as a first sergeant and made a good non- commissioned officer. When he game lack his health was not good enough 10 take D mining so he bought a half in- terest in a saloon in Globe and later bought a half interest in a gambling half where his health improved till he final ly drlfted into Ajo about five years ago where I met him again.
 "I came back from New York to trans fer my business to my successor in the C. & A. mine and the day before I left for France Bill floated in and said he was going to France. I asked him if he was in the army but he said they wouldn't take him and he was going any way. l told him he couldn't get away with it but he said he could make it. I asked how he was going and told him I was leaving the next day. He said he guessed he would go along with me. And he did. We arrived in New York and Bill met several of his old time rough rider friends who all gave him the laugh and said he couldn't make it in a thou sand years when he explained his plans. This sort a took the wind out of his sails and the next thing I knew he was in Washington interviewing Senator Ash urst, who tried to get him a passport but it couldn't be done.
 By the time Bill got back was ready [ to sail and had been on the boat where | I found that I had stateroom with an | extra bunk in so when l saw him l told | him about the extra bed and Bill said ! That's where I ride He said that he had found out that the sergeant at the gate wIls the whole cheese around there and he thought by walking in with me the sergeant would let him by. So we l the sergeant at the gate while we went in and made it without difficulty and got on the boat.
 He stayed in his bunk for two days while I brought him some cold food from the dining room but he finally decided to eat in the dining room as he was tired of cold grub. I asked him how he was going to do it but he said that there was a gang of civilians on the boat who were going over to build a cold storage plant and he would eat with them. The next day I looked into the dining room and Bill had the seat of honor at the head of the table ordering everything from the menu for a square feed.
 "There were five intelligence officers on the boat and they came into my room occasionally to visit but one day they all came in very formally and want ed to know who this man was. I told them he was from Arizona and was em- ployed by the government. They wanted to know what he was going over for SO told them he was very close when it came to his business and they could ask him. But they decided that maybe he was some One of importance and didn't want to show their ignorance. He was treated with great deal of respect after that.
 We had some trouble getting him off the boat at Brest but made it by hiding him in the coal bunkers of the tug boats and he got one of these intelligence of ficers to buy him a ticket to Paris. I did not see him any more till I reached Paris and he told me then he was sleep ing with a priest there. I finally went to one of the officers there and told him the story and this officer said that Bill was a very valuable man and he would give him a commission as captain in the military police.
 Bill didn't take to the NJ. P idea and refused the honor as he wanted to get on the line We went to Chaumont headquarters and Bill made the cafe there where all the officers gathered. his headquartes until finally one day the in telligence officers spotted him and thought they had a great spy. They took it as being so important that they took him up to the chief of staff, who looked up the matter and then said, Oh. he. that cow puncher that came over with Colonel Greenway so let him loose.
 .I met General Pershing one day, who offered to see that I was sent to the line and before long I was transferred to the First Engineers of the First division and took Bill along with me. l had to ges permission of General Craig, who issued an order that Bill should be enlisted
 The order was handed to a lieutenant to make out the necessary papers but the lieutenant didn't know how to make them out so Bill had to show him.
 We went to Montdier to build some jumping off places and we were standing out about 300 yards from the line one night when one of the German shell started our way. l didn't see it but Bill did and he dropped down in a shell hole nearby The shell hit Bill down in the shell hole and missed me where I was standing up in plain line with the she'll
 ..I asked him where he was hit and he said he didn't know but he had large wound on his arm and told him it would be alright in a short time and l would give him a thousand dollars for it. He said something apout pNlh anu iiii''-'F got him to the hospital.
 After leaving the hospital I got him ! transferred to the 1O1st Infantry where I had been transferred and we were in a number of engagements after that After . the war ended | found that l could get discharged as a Class B man so Bill de- cided that he was a Class E man also . and we finally reached New York. There . Bill decided that he wanted to get rid of the cooties so we went to my old home at Hot Springs, Ark, and stayed awhile then he returned to Ajo.
 ''The remarkable thing about Bills eN- perience is the fact that he travelled 70OO miles through a war time country past hundreds of intelligence officers with no credentials at all and got back home alive with service to his country that is a credit to any man.