New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-05-24
Bride, Waiting
At Pier, Learns
She Is Widow
New York Electrician on
Transport Killed in De-
Tense of Antwerp Woman
He Soug hi to Help
10 Nurses Bodies Arrive
Princess M atoika Also
Brings Home Those of
428Soldiers From Britain

The bodies Of ten women army
nurses, who died in service abroad, ar
rived here yesterday on the transport
Princess Matoika from Antwerp and
Southampton. They were part Of
shipment of 42s bodies made up largely
OF American soldiers who died of dis
ease or accidents in British hospitals.
On the vessel also was the body of
Eugene Moriotti, Of New York, an
electrician Of the Princess Matoika. who
was killed in Antwerp April 20 when
he sought to protect a woman who had
been attacked in a street near the
docks
According to friends abroad the yes
sci. Moriotti was on his way to the YES
sci when he heard woman scream for
help. He interfered in her defense and
was escorting her to a place of safety
when one of his assailants rushed up
and stabbed him. Moriotti fell dead at
the side of the woman he rescued He
was married few days before the
transport sailed from New York, and
his bride was at the pier in Hoboken
yesterday to meet him. She was in
formed of his death soon after the
vessel locked and took charge of the
body.
Bride in Mans Clothes +
AS the Princess Matoika was about
to depart from Antwerp Miss Julia
Perrlne, young French woman, was
found abroad dressed in mans apparel.
She said she had married George
thornton, a marine, who also was
aboard the vessel. Thornton said he
had married the girl, was away without
leave and wished to surrender.
There was no marine officer in Ant
werp, and the army officers stationed
there refused to accept his surrender. |
so Captain Charles Fl. Lawrence of the
transport took Thornton and his bride /
to Southampton. He said he wanted to
return to the United States and did
not wish to leave his bride abroad. /
After his surrender in Southmapton
thornton was sent to this country
under guard and his young French
bride was sent back to Antwerp.
On the run across Captain Lawrence
changed his course to the southwark to
avoid ice. He said he received a radio |
from the coast guard derelict DESTROYER
Seneca warning him there were thirty
lcebergs drifting toward the westbound /
trans Atlantic lane and that in the
vicinity there were two derelicts and
one drifting mine.
1,o9O Polish Troops Landed
The vessel also brought 1890 Polish
troops who will be demobilized at
Camp Dix.
The bodies of the nurses on board
were those Of Miss Grace Copeland.
Base Hospital No. SO, of Lebanon, Ind;
Miss Evelyn Jane Demers, Base Hos
pital No. 68, of II Rudolph Road, Mat
Japan, Mass; Miss Cora M. Keech.
Base Hospital No. SO, Of Santa Ana
Calf; Miss Margaret E. KERN, Base
Hospital No. SO, of Schlater, Miss;
MISS Maud V: Kells, Base Hospital No.
o'Gren, Base Hospital No. 1923, of Bos-
ton, Mass; Miss Jeneora Robinson.
Base Hospital No. 60, of Nampa, Idaho;
Miss Lucinda L. Rose, Base Hospital
NO. 68, of Clarksburg, W. Va; Miss
Cornelia E. Thornton, Base Hospital
no. 50, of Achilles, Va; and Miss Es-
Their Yockelson, Group A, American
Nurses Corps, of McKeesport, Pa.
Among the bodies of soldiers were
those of Private Thomas E. Dugan,
Company I, 105th Infantry, PAP Lynch
Street, Brooklyn; Corporal Robert X.
Fllan, Company I, 107th Infantry, 1926
Amity Street, Flushing; Private
ROLAND c. lfford, 361st Aero Squadron.
Wilson Street, Irvington, N. j.; Pri-
vate Albert M. Hills, 418th Casual
company, 80 Long Street, Jersey City;
Captain Frank II. knight, Base Hos
pltal 81, 30 Seventh Avenue, Brook
Ign; Private Stewart Kent, Company K,
10th Infantry, IS Park Avenue, White
Plains; Private John A. Mclean, Com
pany B, 102d Engineers 60 East 122d
Street, Manhattan; Private Anton ].
Ptacnik, 312th Machine Gun Company,
662 South Eighteenth Street, Newark:
Private j. Quadri, 108th Infantry, 716
Forty-second Street, Brooklyn; Private
William L. Solder, Company A, 1920
Engineers, 88 Norris Avenue, Jamaica,
and Sergeant Edward Weigel, Head
quarters Company, Motor Transport
Service, 418 West Forty-ninth Street,
Manhattan.
sci yesterday, but will be removed to-
day, and made ready for shipment to
various parts of the country.
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