| Show COL BRERETON IS DEAD i Galant Gallant of the Kis kilIs nt at Santa Tomas Luzon While Otis Sends the Sad News WashIngton Dt Dec war depart merit ment hi lice received time the tol from aen lea Otis at Manila laJa date dated De Use 2 Lieutenant Cloel cp cap tutu ot of the infantry while temporarily Inan committed at Santa DOOmS nea near aa Fr Fec Union province Luzon S at G C this morning Insanity wa was firt first manifested on onNor Nov Nor th lt at The rhe announcement ot of Colonel tons doth death sas 1 a gret great shock to hil his friends In this el city Tire Tho man who knew him better perhaps titan thin an another any other In Salt Lake WO was oral hutton urton who on hearIng ot of the erl sll event was greatly affected and Inclined to th the or of ortIe tire report tIe Wh Why rrt sold lie he I cannot unde under understand stand whY Quil commit t a arash rash act like that that H lie rae faa One finely eu edu educated stood high In the or of oral cate all who Ito knew him wat was ot of ex cx al judgment and withal one ot clent time the most mOlt galant gallant And nd gentle gentlemen men It his has been m my t to meet In lie He WIS A man ot of teW few yet et AIble affable and magnetIc and generous to n it fault We often found itt It each others home Ind and I witnessed 1 a Ilar lIter act on his hll lort that would India e that he would take his hll own on t life Ill Hb eol every feeling ran In th the opposite n or Of course Mn the statement that he v a as In Insane cour sane explains It all But Dut It II is ni mie erthe II IAn ft a must dreadful affair I have hae been told hi by hil his brt broth er ot of who knew knell him thor lily that he was U one or of the braves men nien i that ever er ent on a battle field that his wal or of the quieL un ln hil kInd that always coon ts In tedious lwY eUr tf times ot of greatest In the sto I ot of San Juan hi he made a rEn t I that JI would do k credit to 10 the tha mOt most amb In the an army Is His prom was largely due Jue to rl ent n dUet duct In thIs memorable Jf He a severe hii hill wound irs In tine thIs engagement t th that incapacitated him from service rind put iut him on the hoe hos pital list for tor months S LIeutenant Colonel John J Brereton was 1 a native ot of New Jersey Jerst Ind and about years ot at age In stature h hwa his wa but In all the endow endowments meats ments ot of nature he bad been bean generously wih with an and Wil was I a leader In all l re re IS a nUn alan among area lie He was u a ot of the Military academy ot of Nerv Jersey and a West In Inh h later latter In he was a n a class or of Colnel Colonel Wiard Young to hom hl lie was I bunt bound b by the closest tP tIes It it friendship Ia Ills fiNt first June Jun n IL 1577 when ire he tam 01 Wf was made a second lieutenant In the infantry He wa was to 10 a first lieutenancy on May Iny 20 0 ISS amid on the Uh ot of Apri April lW won hi his captaIncy While serving In this ca as lct parity h he went ent to Cub Cuba with lh his reg regi ment where whre he was 11 and won the new laurels which have hae already ln referred to Ater After hi recovery h ire was Int sent to tho Philippines wIth tie the and there W ws made chief with the rank ot of major and on the organization of the no new volunteer regiments during luring the peat summer was to the olce 01 t lieutenant In tine the ThIrty thIrd regiment ot of I The soldier had felt the h heavy y yand hand and ot of a affliction Its In hil mu domestic life Twice Twite hAd hi his home been blighted ly lythe by bythe the somber shadows ot of deth an and on each ch occasIon I If was RB the partner of his hi Joys os al and who ho died for tor he hd lied S tn been married tivice le lie leaves lenea I a daugh daughter ter by his hla bright little Miss I of C twelve years who resides with br tier own and tWI two the children ot of hi I lat last wife who ho died at crt Bayard el erv about 1911 I |
