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Show I Believes He Would. Be Shot For Leaving Camp to i See Family ii CHILLICOTHE, O., May 15 Stories .of how a neighbor deserter from the union army during the civil, war had been brought to bay and shot brought visions of a similar fato to Carl Am-1 erine, and impelled him to hide inl the hills for almost two years. j Ameiine when he was drafted into' the army, lea a wife, and two-year-old baby at his home in the quiet hlljs. He could neither read nor write and the largest village visited in his twenty-four years had numbered less than a thousand people. The bustling thousands thou-sands at Camp Sherman, military restraint re-straint and customs weighed heavily on him . and an impelling desire to see his wife and baby boy led him to quit camp without permission. Visions of Death. At home his father, a tottering wreck of the civil war, told him he was a deserter. Visions of the firing squad flashed through his mind. Kissing Kiss-ing his wife and baby goodbye, he took to a cave in the hills. He ventured forth only at night. His only fare was such scanty food that his .wife could get to him, herbs, wild berries and such wild gamo as he could catch. Military authorities had abandoned the search for Amerlne. Three weeks ago an attorney friend of the family .became interested and implored tho .wife to have her husband return and give himself up. She steadfastly held J that her husband would be . shot if captured and refused to have him return. re-turn. Gives Self Up. Last week Clarence Stone, of Adal-phi, Adal-phi, managed to get word to the youth jthat his Avas not a case of desertion land thero was no danger of a firing 'squad. He left his plding place last I Monday night and isited Stone's I home where he agreed to give himself up. ' Early Thursday morning he again 'went to Stone's home. His Avife brought his uniform which she had ineatly pressed for tho occasion. With Stone and an attorney Amerlne Am-erlne Avent to Camp Sherman and surrendered sur-rendered himself to the adjutant. He made no commont except to express himself as being well pleased that "it Is all over." oo |