Show LEFT BETWEEN TWO DAYS Robert Evans a Deserter Skips From Fort Douglas After Stealing Clothes From Soldiers I Police officers and United States army officers are searching for Robert Evans who deserted from Fort Douglas Saturday night Simultaneously l with his departure the wearing apparel of several members of the hospital corps was also discovered to bo mlcslng Evanu was a convalescent patient In the hospital recovering from an attack of pneumonia He had recovered to such an extent as to be permitted partial freedom though he wns a prisoner and had been I confined In the guardhouoe lIe was assisting as-sisting In the culinary department at tho time of his escape The deserter was serving an eighteen months term for desertion when he effected ef-fected a getaway fie dcHcrted the army at San FrancIsco Immediately on the return re-turn of his regiment from the Philippines Six months ago he was captured In Ogden while working as a flreman on the Union Pacific A courtmartial was held at Fort Douglas during which time prisoner was tried and sentenced lo eighteen monthH Imprisonment In the guardhouse While servIng the term t he became III of pneumonia pneu-monia and was removed from the prison to the hospital Saturday night he decided to deparT I Searching the lockers of the attendants of the hospital he loaded himself with civilians clothing Neckties were his favorite fa-vorite artlelen and lie left the men at the hospital destitute of those articles Collars Col-lars trousers and everything else he was able to carry away were taken At the time of his departure It was reporter re-porter that he was a member of the hospital hos-pital corps at the post The officers and men of that corpn Indignantly deny the assertion lie depcrt d from the Third regiment of United States Infantry |