Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-11-12
BOLSHEvIKI KILL
YANKEE OFFICER
Red Cross Captain and Two
Nurses Slain, Says Reut-
er's Dispatch.
z OTHER AMERICANS ESCAPE
Mission in Russia Distributing Relief
Supplies Among clvilians--kll-
patrick Served In Army in
France.

London, Nov. 1l.--Capt. Emmett XII
patrick, representative of the Ameri-
can Red Cross in South Russia. and
two nurses We're brutally killed dur.
Ing a Bolshevik cavnlry raid on Sab
kovo station, Sebastopol dispatch TO
Reuters, Ltd. said.
Washington, Nov. II. Reports
reached the State department that
Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick and C. AT
echny, founder OF the Mennonite Re
lief society, had been captured, but
no mention was made of the death of
either. Ii was believed that the re-
cent assertion of the soviet govern
ment that an american mission"
headed by General Morel" had been
captured by their troops was founded
on the capture OF Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick was last seen at Noyo
AlexiessS on October 80, stripped 10
his underwear In bitter zero weather,
and being led away by Red calvary
raiders" said the State departments
official announcement, given out be.
fore the report of the captains death
was received. His fate is conse-
c.uently matter Of grave concern"
Fitzpatrick served with the Ameri.
can army In France as lieutenant OF
field artillery and after the armis-
tice as chief of the supply division of
the American commission to neeo-
tiate peace. He obtained his dis
charge from the army in Paris In
September. 1919. and became con-
nected with the peace commission.
When the commission wns dis
solved. Fitzpatrick Joined the fsssss.
anian army as a captain along with
number of other Americans. and
saw several months of active service
When the fighting ended he asked
for his discharge and returned to
Paris to join the American Red
Cross. He was ordered first to Con-
In the records of the War Depart
stantinop.e and then to Russia.
ment Kilpatrick's next Jf kit WIS
shown as Lilda NJ Fitzpatrick. his
sister, of Camden, Ala.
Sebastopol, Nov. 11.-Stephen A.
Venear of Albany, N. Y, and james
d. Heddlnger of Baltimore were with
Fitzpatrick distributing relief supplies
among Russian civilians, but managed
to ESCAPE.
A heavy snow made the progress of
Venear and Heddinger across the
steppes difficult. Many times they
were Obliged TO take refuge In hol-
lows while Cossack patrols were oc'
cupying villages.
Maj. George Herbert Ryden of Kan.
sas City, director of American Red
Cross operations In southern Russia,
said he believed the 20 remaining Red
Cross workers were safe.
These workers include Fred l.. Bre-
gel, Fairfax. Mimi; Charles w.
Brown, New York: Robert Clewell.
BelIingham, Wash. Miller Davidson,
Ashland, KY; Wallace DE Revere, os-
sining, N. Y; Lyle NJ. Foster, Chi
cago; Louis Il. Hendricks, DIvernon,
Ill.,; Donald f.. Jacobson, Freeport. N.
Y; Ellis A. Johnson, Springfield.
Mass; Flavius |. Johnson, Joliet,
Mont; Edward G. Lamb, st. Louis;
John ID. McNabb, Washington; /;
George Hoyt Smith, Cleveland, o.;
Michael ]. Stapleton. Meriden. Conn. !;
Walter Il. Thomas. Steamboat Springs
Colo; Joseph A. Trower, Williamsburg,
Pa; DIR. Milton Veldee, BremertOn,
Wash; Alonzo ID. Whlttle, New York
city, and Leon X. Wiese, Mlssoula,
Mont.