| Show survived ouster custer fight he says farmer declares he was member of famous seventh cavalry in historic massacre MEMORY A BLANK 24 YEARS impaired mentality due to wound in fight caused indians to spare his HI life get gets aid for pen con ion claim mckee CI city ty N J charles liny hay ward a seventy year old farmer ho flies liere here sas he lie is a survivor of the tile custer massacre when hen gener general A beor george P A cueter custer and ills seventh cavalry were aslaug slaughtered literee lit ered by the 0 1 aliola sioux at the little big horn river june 25 1876 the histories hist his ofes of tile lie event have always stated that not a it single white man survived Cua tere impetuous attack against a force that outnumbered ills ten to one but ila ward story Is sufficiently credible cred ble to have hate impressed Represent athe isaac Ul Di charach who intends to fly I 1 ly before the authorities at ili cards claim for a pension un on his services under custer private in seventh cavalry saas lie was it la in company I 1 of the seventh n when ailien it was nus cheU ty I 1 y general terry ns as one of three bodas of troop era ers ordered to attack vital mp fill posed to be a n mail small body of liK llulu near the confluence of the ill illg horn and the little big horn ailers and Bachan inn searched tear clied the records and found tit it there was in company kompany om pany I 1 of the he sev sey bentli cavalry durin during its in cill c aiu a private named charles 11 kiy ly ward lo 10 continue hayward s account tiie the main body of file lie sioux wid suddenly denly ap I 1 leird e ared and cut olt orr from the lie uhlee f fonts 0 men in custer ousters a command the formed the tile customary circular barricade of slain horses 4 lind fought lite Ind indiana lawt who uhn according to alln hazard o 0 them three to 0 o one in lit cn trait to the tn to one staled in the lie new intern ith nal lucy clop nedia as he tells rep Bac bacharach harich uns as wounded and went half flair out of his mind the lie latter fact filet later savins saying bli life he lie climbed to he the b hick birk irk of a hone bottle and started to lee flee dut but not fur aroln the tile barricade behind chith custers men were vere rapidly being shot down doun ills horse home was as shot again 1 f filling tiling and plo pill ning nin its rider underneath memory Is impaired of xi hat happened after that ward lays he fie remembers hers nothing later he lie was told flint he had hall been found by indian indians who ho carpl his ills life because of ills impaired mental ity they put him to work and kept hiro film in fit servitude until acm in that tear ear he aa was sent one diy daiy to fetch retch a bucket of water unter and while bentin nier a humbling huh bub blin bling spring lili ills mind cleared suddenly and completely ns as quid quiel iv IT as ns it lind become clouded 24 years before vien he nude mide tits ills ea c cape still 1 with him the tile old flit of the gentl tl CAT ain orn bound abbit his fits anist alst ill hen lien a few fen years I 1 iter he moved mored to atlantic county 1 J lie entered R cillin with the bension office tit vash ash inan n for all annuity but on o 0 account of ills pre freoux louit I 1 lipse ipe of memory he lie inq it t 1110 stant late ills or in rel belile tie ills hl record in detail Th therefore tile officials to bellei his fits story anti his pension was since lien then lie inn has repeatedly petitioned titio ned the lie bureau chiefs nt tit the file IMPI la ini fur for an all audience but bill liaa bas had none however li ii going to examine thoroughly the told formers fir far mers meril romantic satorv and if lie Is 1 entitled to to a pension lie will ill ir pel get it for him ll anard lie heirs in pon ills bod scare fears tie ile daill with pride lint flint they tire the file 11 ii tec of the tile wounds rounds lie reeled reel pd bile fighting under cumer ut ill alie i little title bis big horn |
