Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 36 | World War Tragedy Revealed in Death

j I World War Tragedy Revealed in Death it 1 I S S 'S 1 i S 'S e I S S r S 5 clothes f 5 5 would ste steal 11 out into 55 eb 5 5 S S S' S 9 5 t S S x L 1 tW JY 4 I I By N NEA EA Service STRATFORD Wis Nov 17 Millions of or tragedies had settings in the great war But theres there's probably none norte so soI strange as the the secret secret of ot the After Arter six years it It has hns just been revealed In this q quiet iet little Wisconsin WIsconsin Wis WIs- Is- Is town i It n isn't the the story of r. r sacrifice upon the for virtually all the action is js centered on a small truck farm just outside Stratford GERM GERMAN AN BORN ThORN of mother love Its It's the he story And one that chronicles privations privations privations priva priva- and mental strain perhaps eq equally ally as great as any soldier suffered in the trenches trenches-a a plot ending o only orly ly with the mothers mother's death and the voluntary surrender of her evading draft-evading son Death Death and and death alone alone broke broke I the secret of the Fred had come over from Dusseldorf Dus- Dus in Germany in early childhood childhood childhood child child- hood with his mother and sister For four tour years Mrs worked in a Milwaukee hotel Then the family moved to Stratford and settled on the tin tiny patch of land where the home stands today Year Tear in and v year out R Fred Fed ed plowed the fields tended the stock and did the chores i iThen iThen Then came cam the war Fred re registered registered reg reg- for tor the draft But his mother pleaded him to remain with her One night Stratford received a shock Fred had disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- appeared mysteriously He had gone West Vest to a job in a. a railroad camp The searchers however didn't know that Ithen STEALS HO HOME E ESix Six weeks and the excitement had subsided In the dead of ot night Fred sneaked back Into town Yet for six years Stratford knew nothing of or his return He never ventured out of doors in th da day time His mother and sister Rister always worked on the farm tarm from sun up to sun down But as dusk was gathering Fred dressed in his mothers mother's clothes would steal out Into the tho fields working there until long into the night And all tho the while the neighbors pitied the tho aged q w woman man tolling toiling g galone alone there there- therein in the tho fields Came the day when Mrs fell en Ill Asi As' the doctors doctor's car tum turned d lane Fred sought refuge in ih ap upstairs from hi his room Ho Ito didn't em emerge r hiding pla un until ll lia r mother iother other died Neighbors were astounded to see him again Going to arshield he exchanged his overalls overalls' r for r a new wardrobe WAITS FOR SUMMONS surrendered After the funeral he ur himself upon the the- advice of local local business men For five days he wain was was wa I in jail at Marshfield 1 T Then n the I a authorities released him and arid sent sept him b back to Stratford Under government nt surveillance hes he's back bick in in the fl fields again Perhaps Per haps Sam SamIm will Im prosecute him himS some some day S r Maybe h he wont won't for Freds Fred's far fx tr fronT ma a well wehl w man now Thc strain of those s six years has told on on him S I e didn't em i e Hom hidi un l lh S h his motto d died thed- thed d