The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-13
Bromley, Mystery Man Is Bound Over
 To Superior Court
Arrsigned In Bethel On Theft Charge Is Held Under $500 Ronds-In Default of Which He Was
 Taken to Jail In This City

l papers then or afterwards, I think ! made a cross.
 l Before going into the army I worked in different places, but did work about two months under Will ! liam Hess, superintendent of the New ! England Lime Company at their kiln
 in the town of Bedding. My work was driving a horse and wagon draw ing wood. I hauled the wood from ! the woods to the kiln and drove a 1 white horse named Jerry. I also worked at Georgetown in the wire
 mills before I went in the army and went there to get a job since I got i ba ok but did not get one. I did not 1 live home with my parents all the 1 time before I went in the army, in 1 stead Hve1 different places a good i part of the time with Charles Bennett and his wife.
 i When I was accepted in Bethel for the army was sent to Camp Devens where I think remained about three months. The i-lcture 1 had taken and which MT. Waite has shown r7e is my i picture taken of myself while tt Camp 1 Devens. I had my hair cut short ] then. My uniform consisted of / i yates uniform and lat, but when I came back from the army l had a l cap. When 1 joined the army I was gwen tI IUIlJeF IlCil l W Oi i0 StI OullI my neck, the number I do not re- member. We went in the train to a boat and I remember going over the water. When the boat landed on the other side we all were kept long while some distance from the boat before we went to the front.
 1 T think it was about two days after we started for the front that
 we got in battle, and a man close | beside me was, I think, killed; at l least he did not move; so another l young man and I who had been talk ! ing about getting away from the army i thought it was a good time to leave l then. thought of the plan suggest i ed to me by my friend and who had i been talking to me about leaving the army and who did leave with me, to 1 change numbers, so I took my num- l Der from my neck and put it on the l dead mans neck and took his numb CT
 and put it in my pocket. I did not i take anything else from the dead l man; this was about dark in the i evening and my friend and myself ] then left where the dead man was and went back a piece and slept by ] a building. We. hung around there all the next day until the next night 1 when we began walking to try to get to a boat to get back to America. The young fellow that was with me did all the talking and talked to some people. After walking a long way we got a ride on an automobile truck | to the boat I do not know the name 1 of the man who left for the boat with me. We both wore our uniforms until we landed back in New York 1 city. After we got back in New York | c+o Slpnt in
 little tent. I don't know where the camp was located, as I never was in 1 New York before.
 l T left the man that had come over | with me in New York, as the man 1 told me we must separate or the au- l thorities might get ds and send us i back again, as We had been together 1 too long; then he gave me two dol ] lars and we parted and l bought a ticket on the train to Brewster, N. ! Y. When got in Brewster I made up my mind to come to Danbury on 1 the train, but instead I got the wrong l train and went to Patterson, N, Y, i which is a little town north of Brew
 ster When I got off the train at | Patterson I asked someone for job i I met a young fellow and he said ] l could get a job with his brother-in- i law, Mr. Black, who works on the l Wright farm.
 q got the job with Black and
 worked on the farm about two weeks
 when I left and came to Danbury i This, I think, was somewhere around
 Christmas time or thereabouts. i did not go to Bethel or to anyone in 1 Danbury whom I knew because I did 1 not want anyone to know I was back i as the man I left in New York told l
 see me, so I only stayed in Danbury i two days and then went back to the l Wright farm in Patterson where l l stayed about a month. I then re- 1 turned to Danbury. I intended to i get a job with John Doyle, cutting ! ice for him in Danbury, but when ] i got to Doyle's place, saw my uncle i Charles Bennett, who was working 1 for Doyle. As I did not want him 1 to know who I was and that I was i home, I did not take the job.