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Show Ill TELLS OF HISI ESCAPE Lieutenant Hitchcock, Jr., Tramps at Night Until Switzerland Is Reached. I 'AH IS, .Sept. 8. (Ily the, As.soeluled UresH.) - Lieutenant J nti'hi:Ovk J r., of VV-sthury, N. Y., a youthful member of tho Lafayette (lyln eorpM, who was captured cap-tured by the ( lenna hh but ehcaped to Sw ita rland, today do.'ierlbed his experi-en"e.-i while a captive, and hln Iltffht. Hitchcock witH forced to walk morn than 0) tulles. This ho did In ulKht coiihocu-tlve coiihocu-tlve nuhts-. nit'iieoi v(,h euplured Marxh fi, when be wn furc.-d to land allcr an aerial coinhat witli three fjcriuan maclnnea. He wa.s wounded In the tlilh. "A fler landing Inside. the ("lerinn n lilies." nald I lih ln ock, "I fainted twice. Tn tho hospital I received fair treatment only. There was one doctor for iho l.'.u patlenl.s. and Hie food wum not very ond. "I escaped wblUi tmlriR IranHportfd with two oilier A merlcatiN from Hachfeld to Kastadt. There, ia one Ocrman Rimrd for the threei of in. "Whllti the train stopped nt a Htatlon near Ulm the piiard fell into a doze. 1 snati lu-d Hie railway map which waa near him. and also my nimiey. "The 'iiard nwnke and missed the map and money. I'll kltu; up rny pa. kapo of ftK.d which hail been saved from my rations, ra-tions, but leaving i ho map behind, I rushed out of the door opposite Mnd ran from the track. Tho KViard yelled after me, but I knew that he could not follow, bcrause of the two other prisoners he, had. "I then nlowed down and began to walk toward the frontier. Inirltih' the day I alwavs hid In the woods, and at night 1 eluded towns :uid vIIUikm by wul klnc around them. 1 wafl ill way. h on a close watch for the tlennanH, for I wan In the uniform of a Ktench aviator. Most of the terrltorv I traversed w;ih farming land, with the people working during the day. When thev left the tleldn In the evening I would begin my tramp. "Arriving nt what 1 thought was the Swiss frontier, I watched for traps, ton-h aw elect rt call v chare.i wires and auto-matlo auto-matlo signals. Apparently 1 evaded all such thitiKS. "One morning 1 felt nurft that I was In Pwltzei-lnml, 1 i r , before ItHjulrlne, t added a few extra miles to rny tramp and found myself in a in tin village. There I naked a (irl. v. ho spoke l-'rein'h. where I She ia!d I wis in Switzerland, an then 1 knew 1 wan cafe." Hitchcock will leave for the United States In about two weeks. H. Intends to transfer from the French to the American Amer-ican living corps. |