Deseret Evening News | 1906-09-08 | Page 20 | A West Point Hero

WATER WA I y 11 I i Y 1 e S i 6 S j h s 1 f Il IlA A WEST POINT HERO Cadet J J Walter Waller Wilde Wide ef ot Hazleton p soon on return to 10 Wen West Point which he ko never to enter again Cadet Wilds Wild was I appointed In 1906 by President Roosevelt noo evelt Last Lalit fall tall his leg leI was wal broken brokon In a It driving accident occident After A the tho leg III healed heald It had shrunk sew sev several cent eral ml itches The Tha deformity d prevented pr his reentering the tho academy Adopting a heroic measure Wilde permitted a 11 physician to 10 his leg place It In Inn Inn ina n a plaster Ir c east ft and hoist It at right angles with Laub his recumbent body bod by b pounds of weights W hung hum on attached to 0 the limb At Al the end of two to months Wildes leg log Is found to have been stretched to 10 Its normal length and now there la III In his tiU walk no evidence that thai he Mas ens ever eer In Injured Inured oJ oI o oI