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Show IShot as Spy Because He Kept Faith CHICAGO. Feb. 19. Official record and Hed Cross report today brought to Mr. Frank Kendall the story that her son. Lieutenant Oliver J. Kendall, was shot by the (Germans as a spy : Just lefore the firt great American victory in the war at Cantlgny because be-cause he would not reveal to his German Ger-man captors the details of the American Amer-ican forces. The execution took place despite the fact that Lieutenant Kendall was In full uniform when captured between the lines. Two days later the American captured cap-tured the ground where he had been burled behind the Cerman lines, and when the body was removed to the American cemetery st Bouvlllers. France. It Wia Identified as that of Kendall. Kendall crept out of the American trenches to Investigate the Oerman lines and was never seen again, but from German prisoner captured the same night his comrades learned he was taken prisoner. |