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Show I J GAVE HIIVISELF UP 'j FOR FEAR OF CAPTURE 1 Private Edward Kerns of company C, First battalion of engineers, .lutloiu;d at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, ap-( ap-( peared at tho fort early Sunday morn ing and gave himself up as a deserter from the United States army. Kerns I has been absent from his organization v twenty-nine days, during which time he has been working in Wyoming. Fearing apprehension and fearful of the long time that is given in his cayc-, ; he decided to turn himself over to the Fort Douglas officers. He is now In M Confinement. I Charles Miller, the deserter who was picked up in Salt Lake City Saturday i by a patrolman, was a member of com pany D, Twelfth infantry. He was j' nbssnt without leave a few days pi lor to the departure of the Twelfth inf&n- . try for the Philippines, to which region he did not wish to go. |