Show SOLDIER r I YOUNG YOUN SOLDIER IS IN PITIABLE PLIGHT V 1 j WHITE PLAINS N. N Y Dec 24 r I Alfred Affred F. F Rhodes Rhode formerly a member of company compan F of the Fifteenth in infantry A 1 t who t was sentenced to fifty years years' ii J ut by for killin killing 1 I I a native of the Philippines but who in 1907 by President I was pardoned i Roosevelt has bas arrived here destitute I and br broken ken in health after making the tha I mile journey from San Francisco co I where hero ho hud had been boon in prison on Alcatraz Al- Al I c Although ho he i is only 39 years old Rhodes Rhode hair is now nearly V I 1 whito white as as the r result sul t of hardships hardship which he be has endured and he be was forced to toI I seek seck lod lodging in at a police station After Alter bein being arraigned on a charge of I cv cy toe the authorities were so o impre impressed sed 0 ji b by his pitiable plight that ho bo was a al allowed allowed al- al lowed to 59 go o. o Friends and nd relatives will m I come como to his bis aid aia 1 Rhodes tramped miles on bis bil bisi 1 i eastward journey from tho the coast and ana made the rest or ot the distance by beating beat beat- beating ing his bis way war on freight trains and ridI riding rid- rid U in jag ing with an sn o occasional casion 1 kindhearted I f I teamster t I |