Show I G G. A A. R. R Man M an Buried I te Not Not a Drum W Was s Heard or a Funeral Note j jin in the Potters Potter's Field ONCE WEALTHY HE DIED lN IN COUNTY HOSPITAl Frie Friends as Discover Error and nd a aWill Will Have Body BoHy Removed to Plot of Heroes By BERT HEAL Filling a A. paup paupers pauper's grave rae In the city cemetery Is Herman WIls 1111 Yet of the Civil CI war and ard pioneer Utah prospector Grand Arm Army comrades of Wils s I discovered discos disco ered erd the resting place of the veteran yesterday yes yes- n 9 six after he had received a lowly burial at the expense of ot the count coun coun- t ty William Cromo pension agent and nd G G. A A. R. R veteran discovered the tho sad ead mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take when hen he tried to locals Wils to she give him his pension mone money for the past two month months Wils had been In Utah for a number of at year url At one time he was as owner of valuable prospects In Bingham H He refused re- re fused to part with Ith his holdings for The subsequent years ears however howe dealt unkindly with ith him He mortgaged d his properties and lost ot them Time forced him to ask for that recompense recompense pen pense e given by br the government go for sor- sor or- or r- r vice on the field of battle During the past few years elUs he had been compelled to en de depend entirely on 1 his s pension pension pen pen- sion slon for lor a ll el livelihood hood Since 1912 It h had ld amounted to 21 1 a month The veteran b bending under the weight of or 31 SI years rears ed ll at the Lincoln house hOlleE He had his mall addres addressed ed In care of oC Mr Ir Crome Died at t the Hospital Two months ago h he failed to call at the Crome office for his mon money Mr Crome sought to locate him at the tho Lincoln house and wa was informed that he lie h had gone to the count county Infirmary Mali MalJ forwarded to the Infirmary was re returned ro- ro turned unclaimed d. d Further Inquiry was vas made mad at the i Lincoln hou house e rind and nd Mr M. Ir Crome lea learned that the veteran had been n to th the count county hospital Th Jh mall mali was as sent there but hut WAS ns r returned with th the brief notatIon Not her here Meanwhile Mr Jr Crome rome Is labored bore under the belief belleC th that t Wils had hid gone to Bing- Bing ham hain and n attached tach 11 lI little te SI significance ce to his absence he ho learned that he ht was as not In Bingham and b began gan a de detailed detailed de- de tailed tatted f. f search earch It led him to th the potters potter's field In the city cliv cemetery died a at t th the county count hospital March 2 His body was held at the undertaking undertaking undertaking under under- taking parlors of ot Eb Eber r W W. Hall for fOl one week eek It was Mas hoped to locate relatives but hut none cam came Then h n the aged veteran who h hAd d fought through the Civil war var I with Ith the New Nes York 1011 volunteers was placed In a plain pine casket I No Friend at Funeral Without the kindly touch of or former comrades Us was vas lowered to his last resting place in lii the tho potters potter's field March 31 So o one was ther therA to eulogize eulogise his h service Ice to the United States State when a civil war threat threatened ned to lo disrupt the nation The Thi patriotic service accorded and be befitting befitting be- be fitting Grand Arm Army veterans was substituted substituted substituted by the cold Indifferent burial of oC the pauper But Wits may y yet et find n R resting place In tho the G G. A A. A R R. plot beside the veterans who nho have gone before fore He Ue has 72 In accrued accrued ac ac- crue pen pensions lons to his credit Mr fr Cromo Crome yesterday made application to have haye this expended in transferring the bod body from the potters potter's field the resting place of strangers to the Grand Army plot th the resting pla place e of or heroes who ho have given en service ser to their countr country on or tho the field fieldor of or hattie battle Mr Ir Crome niso applied for a monument which Is erected elected o er the grave o of every veteran elera n by the tho government go Wits V was vas as a R. native of Germany German and I reached his first eighty milestone last December Dc De I cember He lie served through the war with aith i company compan C of the Fortieth regiment of 1 Ne New York volunteers For a a. number of of years cars ho was a member of Mc Maxell-Mc- 1 ean post G. G A A. R- R However Howe he lie dropped out a year car ago declaring that It re required required required re- re all of or his a available mane money for his living iving expenses |