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Show PRISONER T0W: ! MILITARY Flffill i Body to Be Interred in Metal Casket for Subse- I quent Burial in Germany. Stanislau Iewitzk, sailor of the German converted cruiser Cornior.m, who fell from a horizontal bar in the Third war prison camp at Fort Douglas more than a month ago and fractured the cerviele vertebra of his neck, died at the base hospital at Fort Douglas about o'clock ' yesrerdav morning. This is the first death among the Ger- 1 man prisoners of war interned at Fort Douglas that has occurred since the prison camp was established. Lewitzk will be given a military funeral, in cordance with his rank as a sailor or the German navy, this afternoon. Details of, the funeral had not been decided upon by the prison authorities definitely yes- ; terday, but they will be worked out this ; morning and the funeral will be held at ; some hour today yet to be determined. Colonel Arthur Williams, commandant ; of the war prison, stated that a dignified, ; quiet military funeral will be accorded and that proper respect will be shown the i dead in every way. tt is probable that the funeral services will be held in the post chapel. Members ; of the ship's company to which the sailor i belonged will be permitted to attend the 1 funeral under guard, as provided in The Hague treaty regulations. Officers of the prison company and other officers of the , fort will be permitted to attend the ser- , vices. j A metallic casket has been provided the bod y , w h ic h wa s tu r n ed over to; S. D. Bvana, undertaker, yesterday and j embalmed. The body will be buried in , a designated spot of the Fort Doug- j la cenetery for the present. After i the close of the war the body will I be exhumed and shipped to Germany, where ft will be turned over to the German Ger-man government or to relatives for final Interment in the deceased's native land. A detachment of sailors from the prison camp went to the post cemetery under I guard yesterday a fternoon and prepared I the grave for their comrade. That an accurate and military record ; of the death might be provided for both the United States and the German government, gov-ernment, an autopsy was performed unon the body of Dewltzk at the post hospital yesterday afternoon by the hospital surgeons sur-geons and the Cormoran's doctors. By this means the absolute record of the cause of death was established for future reference and use. Dewitzk. who was a popular member of the crew of the Cormoran, was an athletic young sailor and was performing upon a horizontal bar just inside the prison compound when he lost his hoid and landed on the ground on his head. His neck was so twisted that it fractured frac-tured the cerviele vertebra of the spine. This caused paralysis of prantica'lv ail the lower portion of the German's bodv. He was placed In the post base hospital, where everything in the way of medical and surgical care was given him, but efforts to relieve him or save him from death were unavailing. It became apparent at once that he could never recover, hut due to his strength and vitalitv and the surgical care given him at the hospital he lived for more than a month after the accident happened. |