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Show HERO GOES TO REST. I Only Survivor of the Custer Massacre 0M Dleo In New York. Yonkers, N. Y. Thoma3 J. Callan, i tho man whom General Custer sent for relnrorcoments when his command was entrnpped by Indians on tho Llttlo Llt-tlo Big Horn river. In Montana, and who led a roller force back to tho placo whero Custer and his men had been slaughtered, died at his homo . f hero Friday. Callan received a medal from congress In recognition of his brnvory In making tho dash for rein- 1 forcemonts for Castor. An ovorwholm- lt ing body of Indiana had already surrounded sur-rounded Custer's troops when Callan was chosen to carry out tho dispatch asking for help. Ho mado his wny through tho Indian lines to tho nearest near-est military post, and then headed the relief party on tho long rldo back to tho Bceno of bnttle. They arrived too late, howovcr, tho entlro Custor command com-mand having been annihilated by tho Indians. Callan loft tho nrmy twenty-thrco twenty-thrco years ago, and slnco that tlmo haB been engaged In business hero. |