Show PICTURESQUE CAREER OF THE TUE VICTIM OF GODFREY HUNTER NS X w f NEW YORK Dec 4 Interesting details de- de tails alls of ot the events leading lending up to the shooting hooting In Guatemala City ot of William A. A Fitzgerald b by Godfrey Hunter Jr were given shen today to the Commercial l Ad by a man well known In Central America but whose name I If withheld as he Is about to return South he Mid rold The shooting of oC William A. A Fitzgerald er- er aId ald by Godfrey hunter Jr brought to toa a i. sudden and end a career carcer as picturesque as It was short As the type tp of ot the tho of ot fortune Billy nUh Fitzgerald would ave l made the heart of Dumas Jump with jO joy Six feet tall dark and handsome the young Mich Mich- Igan pan man would ha have been a noticeable In an any company f r A rascal lie lienay may nay have ha b beth been e but If IC so so he was a lovable lov lov- able ahle rascal Ills recklessness ne s endeared him ilm to the thc strong men with whom he came In contact In the Central American American Ameri Amen can coun countries men countrIes tries men men or of of venturesome me who for forthe the daring In them admired and anti respected the su superlative superlative superlative su- su daring In him Daredevil Spirit In ln a a. country where revolutions are arc periodical events e Fitzgerald was not long ong In finding an nil opportunity of stal lug Ing ng his life on a possibility of fame and fortune The restless Gen Cen Vasquez was ambitious of oC deposing Sierra the President of Honduras and of seating himself In the Presidential chair In his stead He Hc enlisted the services services services ser ser- vices of or Fitzgerald who was then but 21 1 l and of ot a humber number more or less well veIl known adventurers among amone them Jeffreys Jet Jet- freys the new Admiral of the Colombian Colombian Colom Colom- bian fleet Col Pennypacker now general senera gen sen- cn- cn era eral superintendent of or the Central Railroad Railroad Rail flail road of or Guatemala Col Cot J. J Bascom Jones onel now Major General of artillery in the thc Guatemalan arm army and Col Cob Richards recently banished from Guatemala Guatemala Gua Gun for excessive revolutionary pro pro- 1101 1 Fitzgerald anxious to distinguish distinguish dis dis- himself and yielding to his daredevil 11 and Impulsive instinct decided decided decided de de- to open hostilities Independently of or the restOn rest rest- On 7 with a com company pan of thirteen Americans Fitzgerald paddled paddled pad pad- died across the lagoon lag separating separating- Puerto to Cortez from the mainland and at dead of night entered the town A rush rushon on the Cuartel where a garrison of or men was stationed resulted In a complete complete com corn victory for or the attacking party The fourteen Americans bad had captured the town As the nature of or Central Americans Is on one of general Indifference and of df C quick changes In itt the matter of poU political convictions Puerto Cortez from a faithful SI Sierra port became Inthe in inthe inthe the short space of at an hour a warm Vasquez Vasquez Vasquez Vas Vas- quez town Liberators Knocked Out The conquerors were ere ere hailed as Uber Ilber and toasted In Aguardiente and rum It was n a night of great revelry revelry rev rev- elry city and of ot many vivas rIva for fOl Vasquez In the morning twelve of the fourteen Americans merl ans were 50 Intoxicated as to be bc unable to tell names It was wasat wasat wasat at this Juncture that word was brought to Fitzgerald who had taken up his headquarters in the house that men were on the way ay to re recapture recapture recapture re- re capture Puerto Cortez Corez Either because he himself was not entirely sober or else because he knew the populace to be partisans of the upper dog dab do Fitzgerald decided to keep to himself himself himself him him- self the knowledge of or the Impending at attack attack attack at- at tack upon the town b by the Government tI oops He tried nied to enlist his thirteen men m In the defense of the place but found Cound them all with one exception stupefied stu stu- with liquor and and unable to stand The exception was Lee Christmas a lo- lo engineer no now nov the Chief of Police of Tegucigalpa the capital capRal of Honduras Routed a Whole Army Christmas and and Fitzgerald rode to I the freight yard ard of or the railroad and there commandeered a locomotive and anda a flat car They ran the locomotive up the lino to where the strip of or land connecting connecting connecting con con- the peninsula to the mainland Is narrowest and there ther awaited the arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival of or the Government troops troop On the flat car breastworks of sugar su ar bags had been built Within the quadruple made of or these bags Fitzgerald took up his position with four Winchesters and several several sev sev- ev- ev eral rounds of ot ammunition At dawn the men appeared marching in close formation on the railroad track there being no other trail irati The fire that greeted them from the flat fiat car cleared the track In five ti seconds every man taking cover In the jungle Until 8 S o'clock at night Fitzgerald alone held the flower of the army at bay Christmas loading rifles for him Then fearing an attack en cn masse under undercover undercover undercover cover of ot darkness the order to retreat I Iwas was given That same night Fitzgerald aid ald and Christmas leu let lct In a n canoe and Puerto Cortez Cortes was retaken Fitzgerald knowing how much his head was worth walked 12 miles into Guatemala In his fight on the railroad railroad rail rail- road track he had killed d eighteen of the enemy and wounded half halt a hundred |