Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-01
ALLEGATION THAT
VIRCINIAN SHOT
MAN COLLAPSES
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company from Virginia. Before lenv-
Ing Admission for France was trans
ferred to Headquarters Company as
cook, with which company I con-
tinued to the end of the war. re-
member socing Smith once In France
before we went to the front. have
never seen him from that day TO this.
Sworn to before me by Osborn Ell
lis this 30th day of December, 1921
"MARGARET MOREHEAD.
Notary Public. Pulaski County,
Askew's Statement.
I'm reference to letter of l.. o.
Smith charging Major II. l.. opie
One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry,
with having killed William Wool
wine in the vcrdsn sector during
October, 1918. in which letter he gives
mo as being ono of the men with
him at the time.
Tho entire statement made by
smith is absolutely false so far as |
know.
My name is William Aslecy. I
was bugler in Company NJ. One
Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry. Ma
jor Optics battalion. from u short time
before wo left Admission. Ala. until
tho close OF tho war. Lcmuel o.
Smith was u private In tho company
NIL the time. He was not only not I,
sergeant. hut no was not even Il Grst-
class private. He deserted from An
niston, but was apprehcnded in vir-
rt,,t, =
though In tho meantime having hccn
declared insane by tho local authori-
les IN Pulaski.
Did Not Sec Smith.
IL was Mt the front during the
whole time our regimen, was in ac-
ton In the Argonnc. Will not say
that Smith was not with us, but IL he
was do not remember having seen
him. There was no man by tn.
name of William woolwine in ouI
company. The Woolwlne boys
Walker and Ernest. woro both killed
one In action and one died OF wounds
( Tho entire statement Of Smith scems
, 10 me TO be just as much magma
ton as tho statement that he was
decorated by the French and Ameri-
AN governments.
Sworn to before me by William
Askew. this SOth day OF December
,si."
MARGARET MoREIIEAD.
"Notray public Pulaski County"
Taylor Heard neport.
Howard b. Taylor of l22 Easl
twelfth street. who was a member nj
company b. One Hundred and SIX
teenth Infantry. Twenty-ninth Dr.
vision. said yesterday that he heard
n shot tired near whore Colonel Opie
was standing and later heard that liz
topie) had killed his orderly.
Il didn't sac the shooting Bullets
from machine guns were falling thick
ana fast and the artillery was howl
ms constantly. Men were dropp. ng
oil around. and Il may have been :,
machine gun that got tho man.
never saw any men breaking or run
Ming under Dire. The baltic was pret :
~ hot At the time and tho men seem
ed TO be anxious to get into tt I'm =.
stead of getting away"
Saga Opic Shot at Man,
The following letter. signed by
Martin L. Harris. OF 1890 North
Twenty-nrst Street. charging that
Colonel Opic shot al IN American s,i-
der at the front In October, 1918. was
published here yesterday.
Il want to hack up the statement OF
the other Company b men. that q
Company lines did not break. Com
?any ID did all that was given IL TO do
MAJOR Opie's statement that our fines
broke is untrue. l also saw Opie
borrow RHO and shoot at Il soldier
during October. This is not from
any one in unatio asylum. am
willing to swear to what saw. If
need be-