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Show LIEUT. ROBERTSON DEAD. Army Officer Passes Away as Result of Unusual Accident. CHICAGO. .March 19. L,leut. Samuel W. Robertson. U. S. A., died last night as the result of an accident. Uout. Robertson and Miss Henrietta Holmes were married on October 1C last and, after a brief wedding trip, went to Fort Ethan Allen, where tho Lieutenant Joined his regiment, the Fifteenth cavalry. cav-alry. Directly after their arrival L,leut. Robertson slipped on a newly waxed winding stair and fell to the bottom landing on his feel, apparently not seriously se-riously hurt. He failed to recover, however, how-ever, and was brought to Chicago for rest and treatment. Then meningitis developed, causing death. Lieut. Robertson was 2G years old. He served three yea in the Philippines, Philip-pines, after graduating from the academy acad-emy at West Point. |