Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-03 | Page 4 | Private Soldier Pleads to Die as American Citizen |

Type	issue
Date	1919-06-03
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Private Soldier Pleads to Die as American Citizen
Type	death
Date	1919-06-03
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	4
OCR Text	Show PRIVATE" SOLDIER PLEAOS TO DIE AS AMERICAN CITIZEN DENVER, Tune 2 - To die an Amor-ii Amor-ii uq citizen, the great ambition of Private Pri-vate Samuel j DeMarco, too ill with tuberoulosis supei induced by German poison gas to leave his bed. Is lo be fulfilled, .ludce Samuel W. Johnson el the federal district court at Littleton, Little-ton, today consented to move the court to 'he government hospital at Aurora for one day so thut De Marco and other. Sick soldler-i can become citizens. citi-zens. The date for the sitting has urn been sol. De Marco was born in Italy twenty twen-ty -one yours apo Lying wounded in a French hospital he was caught with other patients in a wave of poison gas which swept throuqh the institution from German lines. Tuberculosis set in and he was sent to the Aurora hospital hos-pital near here.
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