Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-23 | Page 16 | Gen. Pershing Charger Dies via Bullet

GEN. PERSHING ! CHARGEE DIES ! VIA BULLET j ' WKFT HARTrOTtn. Conn, Atig. i (By U. P.) "Oeorg Washing-1 I ton." QoMral Pershlng'a war here. , 11. dead. , Gaaaed In Franc, th chrgr de- , dined In health after being re- , turned in th I'nlted States. He hsd nothing todo except romp In a large pasture, but ho grew thinner, and waskrr. j His fifteen year, msd more weighty by tna nardshlps ho had j ndurd bung heavily upon him. Bo It wa decided to end his if- ; ferlng and send him on to th ; "nappy pasture land" th Valo- halla of th war horse. I It fell to th lot or Walter Phelps. ; ! an agent of th B. P. C. A- to put the old charger out of hi misery. -Yesterday "Oeorg. Waehlngton" , I waa 'led to troop B armory here land there quietly and scientifically: a bullet ended him. 1 "George Waehlngton" wa. born and bred tn Mleeourl. General Perehlng rode him on the 1 I Mexican border In 11 during th exciting dy of -Villa', raid." Later l he carried th Amrlcn rommn-jder rommn-jder In chief In Franc. ,Ir. Paul I Waterman, who owned th old ' horse, died her just a month ago.