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Show HILBERT WILL FACE DESERTION CHARGE Soldier Who Confessed Leaving Post of Duty and Other - Delinquencies to Be Punished. In custody of a guard, . Corporal Henry D. Hilbert, quartermaster department, de-partment, self-confessed deserter from the United States army, and who posed over the country as Sergeant Brecken-ridge, Brecken-ridge, one of the survivors of the Princess Pat regiment of Canadians, left last night for Alcatraz island, San Francisco, to be tried for desertion. Hilbert, after deserting from a post in Nebraska, traveled across the country coun-try posing as a Canadian soldier and lecturing on trench warfare. He is alleged al-leged to have borrowed money from military officers, to have used the mails for fraudulent purposes, and to have committed other offenses. In Denver, Colo., he cut a wide swath, plaved the society game strong and departed, de-parted, it is alleged, taking with him money he had secured from society people. He came to Salt Lake, but his record quickly followed him, and he surrendered surrend-ered himself at Fort Douglas a short time ago. Postal inspectors are investigating inves-tigating Hilbert's alleged misuse of the mails and it is probable, it is said, that he will be indicted on this offense by the federal grand jury in Colorado. Hilbert was taken to Alcatraz by Sergeant Ser-geant T. E. DeWolf, of the Fifth dis-j dis-j eiplinary company |