Show FI FRIENDS lENDS SOLICIT P PARDON FOR HERO O WHO International ew Service P Pr Pa May 15 Ex Ux men and others other arc striving striving- to gain a a. pardon for tor Walter A. A Dross Dress who is Is' Is serving tho the remainder 1 er of or a sentence Inthe In tho the penitentiary here bere that was vas begun before the war Dress escaped early In 1917 enlisted a a. few months later with tho the American expeditionary force and did distinguished distinguished distin distin- service on tho the battlefields of I France He returned with two medals for valor and an English bride but I wIth the fear th that t tho hand of ot the law might be laid upon him lIin an any time Dress Dress' case Is peculiarly appealing For a long IonS time limo ho was afraid to toll tell his wife that he W was 8 a n. hunted man tIe lie pleaded restlessness and tho the ecu cou couple plo moved mO rom place to place Then I cou camo caino the da day at lt Sari San DI Digo o Cal when whon I the young o hus husband and no longer long able to stand tho the strain confessed to his wife Instead of or denouncing him the wife I pleaded with him to return to the penitentiary pen pen- and serve whatever punishment punishment punishment punish punish- 1 ment might be meted out She would walt wait for tor him sho she said Bald and the they would l be bo happy again V A few tew days later Dress appeared atthe at i i tho the office of ot the thc warden of ot tho the Western West West- I ern era penitentiary In Pittsburgh tam I t Iam I am nm Walter alter Dress he ho said r I escaped three years ago H from Rockview I Iam Ia Iam II a am am n ready to take whatever is coming I t to me I want to go back an and have I strain over The Tho prisoner was was returned hero here and anti I his is straightforward forward star story together ether I with his war record so Impressed that he suspended punishment for o and Dr Dress ss R Ra a was I sent back to serve only the balance or of his oJ oM term which would keep I him lit iii the penitentiary n a little than titan u a year var fp p the thc meantime every every I effort will b bl bo made mado to ec a pardon par par- 1 don Vlon for or him V I |