Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-08-17 | Page 9 | Hero to Get $1000

Hero to Get $1000 PARIS Aug 16 A reward of $1000 and perhaps doub e that amount awaits the French solder who captured the first German standard taken at St Blaise. Paul M Charnler a flagmaker of Paris a fortnight ago deposited with the cashier of Le Matin $1000 as a reward of this feat Mma. d Plunkett, widow of a former director of tho Palais Royal theater in a letter to the newspapers rem nds them that her husband shortly before h s death in 1893 bequeathed to the c ty of Paris $1000 to the French so d er who shou d capture the f rst flag of Germany in a war of revenge. At that time the c ty refused the -bequest and Mme drf Plun kett now expresses the hope that the reason for the refusal now no longer ex sts and asks the authorities to dispose of the $1000 by awarding it to the hero who took the German flag at St Bla se.