The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-02-26
BRIDE GOES BACK
i, A cASKET
YANKEE SOLDIER ON WAY TO
PARIS WITH HER BODY.

Kansas City, Feb. 26.-JacQueline
Partisan war bride, is going home
She left for France-in her casket
Accompanying her was her husband
| of less than year.
James E. Crimson of Kansas City
was only one of 100000 youns
Americans who accepted the big haz.
ard, but the story of his love reads
like an idyl. Crimson, an artillery.
man in the One Hundred Thirty-sixth
artillery, was attending the school al
Saumur, in preparation for the entry
OF American troops to the line, when
he met Mile. Jacqueline Hayen OF
Paris, who came to the little town in
the department of Loire to visit an
uncle.
She was beautiful; indescribably
attractive, as are all Parisiennes. And
more, she spoke English with hardly
the vestige of an accent, for, although
she was only 21, she possessed a di-
ploma of graduation from the Scr
bonne and another from an English
conservatory.
Jacqueline's parents had reared her
carefully and extensively. Her ia
ther, Emile Hayen, captain of the
Thirteenth Dragons. had seen to
that. He had fallen before the first
onslaught in northern France when
the gray hordes of Germany swept
across the Belgian frontier. and she
still wore black for him.
The day came when the Young
Americans training was finished. His
orders to rejoin his regiment had ar
rived. The night before he left Grim
ison stood on the threshold of her
uncle's house and spoke what had
been in his heart for weeks. JAG
queline said she would pray for him
as she prayed for her brothers.
He was gone. North to the British
front, where American artillery was
brigaded with the English. Infre-
quent letters came, full of love and
cheer, for the French girls had steeled
herself to keep the sobs out of her
correspondence.
The Germans had forced the lire
on the |Chemin des Danes and Per-
shing's request to cQordinate his own
forces was granted. Crimson. now a
first lieutenant, went south to the
Marne, commanding a section at
Chateau Thierry. After that came
st. Mihiel and the Meuse-Aronne, and
through both actions Crimson went
unscathed.
Came the armistice and leave for
Crimson. Then Paris and a visit to
the house of Jacqueline's uncle. one
M. Koltz; in the finance department
OF Clemenceau's cabinet. The we'd
ding day was set.
Another leave to Paris, where
Crimson was met by Jacqueline's
three soldier brothers, who met him
at the station and kissed him on each
cheek. Already he felt as one of the
family.
1t was May and the boulevards of
Paris blossomed as though in special
honor of the wedding.
The ceremony over, Crimson and
his dark-eyed bride were off to Brit
any for honeymoon on the estate of
her grandfather. Brittany in June!
Such a honeymoon!
Grimison's discharge had come and
JacQueline was breathless for the
voyage to America. The war was be-
hind and her cheeks glowed with the
surprises Of her new homo. Back in
Kansas City Crimson engaged him.
self in the motor supply business.
JacQueline presided over his house at
1928 East Thirty-sixth street. Word
was received that Nine. Sophia Heyen
would arrive In Kansas City from
France in April to visit her daugh-
ter. Then the bride became i'll and
died.
Crimson will lapply to Washington
for passports and hopes to leave
within . week for lie Havre, where
Nine. Hayen will meet him.
Paris will not seem the same ia
Crimson. It rains there nearly every
day at this season and the trees along
the b0ulevards seem cold and dead.
A mass will be said in one Of the
great churches, and JacQueline will
be buried in one Of the cemeteries
on the Seine Some day--if his body
IL ever found--her father will be
brought back and placed beside her.