The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-10-01

%pardoncd, and they had carried out
the sentence we'd have never been
notified until after the poor boy was
dead.
For three months Forests mother
was frantic to know what had b.fall-
en- him us regular letters stopped.
then his allotmcnts ON which she was
partially dependent stopped. but 80
explanation came.
And then Mary tell sick. The sh-
srnc" of news from her son, follow ed
10y the report In the newspapers that
he had been sentenced to cetth. sorv-
ed to a%EgraNttto her growing illness
The pardon by the president. comfort
ing as u was. didn't rcu"V her and
she died five weeks before Forest was
Killed.
TN TO The very last, Mary held out
that she knew her boy hadn't meant
to be a coward. She know he would
do his duty like d man
Forest never mentioned his trou.
bile 10 letters, even after he was freed.
until he found out We had heard OF %
through the ucwspa peers
Mrs Hampton brought out the let
ter from Forest Sebastian 10 which he
made his first reference To- his
sentence and pardon.
lie wrote.
w ithf EtlNNk tt NhN my Nitha
aiBut II nov. some dnN may
be abb "a explain to you an abnut
H. nut PLEASE uun't hin I'm
u coward. Don't think I am
hickon-hrirtr,l."
Eldurtdos citizens arr proud 81
Forrest Sebastian for wpinE out
% stain ON hts name. if STAN % was.
They also have some ideas OF what
Injustice D. o. tu Jet re- group OF army
officers condemn one Of their hest
boys without fair trial And they
hLV" already made them known To-
congressman Thomas :. Williams OF
tho -ith Illinois district
Story ~ SlrgI ~ DAYS.
They are also very proud of claude
Younger, another husky Young roll
miner. Younger had boon Srhastitu's
lItrtlm, pgl THE two boys were the
first tu suluutorr from EIdutado, goo
iuug away ON Aprti "a. only eight DAYS
after war was declared.
Younger returned home two months
ago Erirycd h"Dlu-r h- had % return
without Frosty os yuuus Schustion
was known.
= nat been transferred 10 the
TUird battalion win 20 machine sun
unit said Younger Sebastian VAS
with Co. q of the Second battalion.
So ! wasn't with him whom Ice got into
trouble but { talked 90 h.m about u
later
One day went 10 pomaiguc.
whore. hp was confined. and I saw
Frosty working among a p1ug %
prisoners OF th' sirrvts. That was be-
tore he W. sentenced To death. tie
WAS trying To keep mp his spirits even
ts % prisoner. lie didn't seem TO
realize what serious trouble he WAS
In. E' talked about how eager he
WINS go go to the front That Was the
l8si time suw him. We went 10 an
Other sector. did not learn ct his
pardon until after his death.
" FROSTY as he sHatChed an oppor-
tuuity iu talk 10 me away from IN,
eyes Of his sentry. told mo for Gods
sake not to write and lot mother
know the trouble I'm IN. I wouldn't
have the folks back home know IL Tor
the world
"lIut his comrades tuld me. he.
- . that. that thCN didn't brlicNC
the Md wcn sound asleep M H.
post anyhow. Ia told thrm Lee
didn't az least, Hnh thcN all snid
the corporal who turn,~l him H.,
did IL to get in guud' win the
captain. The corporal Didn't get
his wish. He's IN ~IcaNcnworth
nov for diS1tSslicnrc al orders.
Frosty Just dolod e little and
nodded his head ON his breast, they
told me, ana I ,art see now anybody
rould help b. We were on watch All
night at u stretch. and nm hour on
wasn't enough TO get ever "a nap. In
tho daytime o. burhe shells We're
s~'rc'ChiuE uyrt constantly. Ne were
the first uu The front and we hadn't
gut used iu b. And when We got out
There u the stiffness cot the night ne
just dropped on "a moment LIS easy
for W" 20 see hqv ne did IL,
1T sounds HWfully bad 10 someone
here Ht home, but wing In mud all
diN ava then trying to 10 picket duty
un u fixed spot tIi night WAS no easy
thing. especially when we'd mixed Tor
days and days 90 got mp ihcre"
IN official report mad" iu Washing
tom ut tnr u,sr showed that Sebastian
had been uu sentry duiy the night
before" that during an" day hc had
tried leo get sleep iu DO nuis, rou,h bon
which wood had brru ordered chop
ped and that when ne returned to
sentrN duty after u -leeple-s dav his