The Washington herald., 1919-05-11
Wallingford in Real Life
Avenged Pal Murdered IN
Sinking of the Lusitanio

went over 10 the bank. There. IN full
view Of the cashier, indorsed the
check very iaboriously with my 'sru-
ficial arm =
THE cashier looked al the sine of
the check and smiled an apoloxy.
There's no question but what this ID
all right but we don't know you.
and
.'oh. that's all right. I know
you must be careful of all thess
forgers and crooks.- came back az
him amiabiy. But just call up hif
once. ] know it's q large amount
and one must be careful And
again I smiled. and the long-beak-
ed. lop-eared cashier grinned with
me as he politely excused himself
to call up Old Whiskersv once.
/ "Of course Harry answered the
phone, and not only o. KID the
check. but gave q complete descrip-
tion Of me. laying particular en-
phasis on my ARTIFICIAL arm
The cashiT came back smil-
the money OF course we had our
getaway fixed and blew with the
money. ! was then about aS. For
weeks after we saw and laughed
over police advertisements for
and an artificial arm
They never got us on that. ana
nobody to this day knows the In
side OF II but you Harry and my,
self"
Told Of Other stunfa-
| Wright then told me OF Other
stunts in many of which the monex
ran up into i've figures that hs
and his pal had worked. -Harry
is outside working hard now to,
get me out" he said once. .He's
do anything for me. He's a resl
partner and pal and ia go throurt
hell for him"
He often dwelt on his great lows
and friendship for HIS pal
Then came the sinking Of fbS
Lusttanta- That day on NV roun6,i
through the penitentiary s.I
Wright In his cell. his head bowed
his eyes dim. and a nevzpspr,
crumpled in his hand. He pointed
TO the story, and in the bold fact
type list of dead was the name OF
his pal
Going TO XIII Gernsns.
I'm going TO France to kin Ger
mans as soon as get out" he sal1
I'm going TO make good 20 Ierr~
in this. so help me God. I'm GcIr@
10 avenge my pal. I'm going 70 IN
Germans"
That was four years ago.
Today he came into my once h@~s
in London.
I've made good to Harry w.f.
his FIRST greeting.
And as proof OF this. there shs~r~
from his British sergeant maior
tunic the ribbons of the Dfr.s
tinguished Conduct Medal and ~
Military Medsl-two Of Britair'f|
highest military honors.
Pointing proudly to his ID. c. N
he said. 4 won this at Passchen.
dale. The Boche waves were pour
ing onto US and giving us hell. They
knocked out one Of our machine gur
units. didn't do such a LOT
though. i only jumped to the CUR
and kept spraying lead into thai
gray mass. i moved 'em down. ane
all thought of was Harry. I must
have killed and wounded scores Of
'em, because my major told mt
afterwards / had busted up their
attack and allowed our fellows &C
play into 'em and smash EN- &C
pieces.
Never Took Prisoners.
Again he referred to his pal. Be
lieye me. I've made good. I've bayo-
netted, shot and killed Germans.
never took prisoners. Once a bis
Fritz whimpered 'Kamerad' thought
of Harry and the German U-boat and
the struggling women and children Of
the Lusitania- ana ! pinned him to .
tree trunk with my bayoneI
1 Il got my M. NJ for service dur
ing a gas attack. There was a bunch
of our poor wounded lads lying out
there in No Mans Land in view of
the German snipers- They started
sending over poison gas. ] saw the
first cloud of the heavy green stuff
come rolling along the ground
thought OF the poor wounded devilE
out there unable to help themselves.
SO I crawled out into No Mans Land
and put gas masks on EN- That's
ALL"