Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-02 | Page 18 | Paid Man to fight for Him; Now Englishman is Exiled

Paid Man to Fight for H Him m I Now Englishman Is Exiled I I Exiled from his native land because I his friends and acquaintances think I him dead upon the field of honor is the extraordinary plight of a young Englishman going by the name of Hugh Robinson who is in Salt Lake today Robinson which is a fictitious name by the way inadvertently inadvertent told a story to a TELEGRAM reporter with whom he picked a chance acquaintance last night which if true is one of the most remarkable circumstances growing out of the great war According to the young Englishman who is of a sensitive nature and somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what effeminate in his actions he hired a man to enlist in the English army in his his' name at Gloucester last May He paid this man 25 which is equivalent to in our money to en enlist enlist enlist en- en list in his Robinsons Robinson's name and no noone noone noone one discovered the fraud owing to the fact that Robinson has no relatives living that he knows of and lives north of Lancaster ter HP HI sent letters to his friends from Gloucester ter stating staling that he would see them after the war drew a considerable sum of money which he had on deposit in a Liverpool bank and left England on a sailing salling vessel from Plymouth on May 28 1915 He eventually arrived in the United States and visited New York Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadelphia phia Washington and Chicago He was in Chicago on a rainy afternoon during the recent Republican n convention convention convention conven conven- tion sitting in the reading room of a public library looking at a copy of the London Times Times when hen he saw saw his own name listed among those who ha had l dl died d don on the field of honor f Now Kow he cant can't go back because he cant can't think up any possible explanation for his coming to life after having been killed by a German bullet But didn't you ou foresee the possibility possibility possibility of such a thing he was asked Yes it occurred to me That is I 1 just merely thought or of it You see I Iwas Iwas Iwas I was excited about the war and there was waR a lot of talk about f slackers T I really dont don't know why wh I T did it I cant can't just understand what made me do it The fellow looked something like me Maybe 1 that was it I couldn't go to War It was impossible for me I nearly nearly nearly near near- ly faint at the sight of blood I dont don't even know if I could ave got in or not I dont don't know why I 1 did it it And it was evident from the way the fellow said it that he meant just what he said His earnestness gave aye credulity to his story When asked what he was going to todo todo do do he said I 1 guess Ill I'll go to Alaska