Show I EAST SlOE SIDE GUNMAN HAS ENVIABLE WAR Monk Eastman's Friends Seek Seck to Restore Him to Citizenship By Associated Press Preas AMP A lP UPTON X N. Y Y Apri 2 Monk l Eastman atman gunman leader of or gangsters who once terrified New Turks York's east cast side Bille now is Private ato William Delaney back lar f France with an enviable lable war I cord accord lie was wag honorably discharged d from the theOne theOne theOne One Hundred Sixth infantry today and within a few days there will be forwar forwarded forwarded for for- war warded to Governor Smith a A. petition signed b by his commanding officers asking that he be bo re restored toled to citizenship citizenship citizen citizen- citizen I ship Monks life liCe history I Is the story of or ofa ofa a comeback In the old od days das no ho was I an opium addict addict burglar creature of oC the sl slums ms with ever a gun on his hll hip In 1917 he finished a term for burglary and In O October tober of that year enlisted no questions asked askell Into war wal which has ma made c heroes out of or cowards strong men out of oC weak went Monk When the Twenty sev division tools took Its place in Flanders Fanders Monk was wag there When the gallant ballant New ew Yorkers swept forward against th the line line and and cracked HI It It- It I Monk lolI was in the thu first wave c When I 1 comrades fell and stretcher bearers bearer volunteered I were needed Monk Mona When carried to a British hospital I wounded In the head while whale leading a aI bombing squad Into the face faco of ma- ma I rhine guns uns Monk l e escaped capell to mount once more moie the firing step V These and many more are arc the facts recounted in the petition signed by Colonel Franklin W. W Ward of the Ono One Onehundred Hundred Sixth by hy Major J. J Scott Buxton Buxton Buxton Bux- Bux ton and by Captain lames James M M. M I. I Conroy Conro and Lieutenant Joseph A A. A Kerrigan an Monks Immediate superiors who fought by his side on foreign soil |