Show SERGEANT PRESTONS FUNERAL twentyfourth Infantry Soldier Who < Was Shot at Cheyenne Special to The Herald Cheyenne WY9 Jan 15Sergeant i Wills Preston company E Twenty I f fourth infantry who was shot by Pearl Thornton yesterday morning was burled in the cemetery at Fort Russell this afternoon The funeral was a military one and attended by several hundred of the dead mans comrades Had Preston lived until May he would have served thirty years in the army Ho was one of the best colored soldiers in the service Pearl Thornton is being held to await the result of the investigation by1 the prosecuting attorney at-torney as there is a belief among some that theshooting was not accidental |