Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 2 | Notorious Gunman Returns from France with Enviable Record

Notorious Gunman Returns From France With Enviable Record CAMP CPTON. N. V.. April 2. "Monk" Eastman, gunman, notorlouo leader of gangsters who once terrified New York's East Side, now is Private William Delaney. veteran, back from France with an enviable war record He was honorably discharged from the lUbth infantry toduy and within a few days there will be forwarded to Cover nor Smith a petition signed by his commanding officers, asking that be be restored to citizenship. "Monk s" life history is the story of a "comeback." In the old days he was an opium addict, burglar, creature of the slums with ever "a gun on his hip " in 1917 he finished a term for burglsry and In October of that year enlisted, no questions asked. Into war. which has made heroes out of cowards, strung men out of weak, went "Monk." When tho 27th division took its place in Flanders "Monk." was .there When the gallant New York era swept forward aguin.-a the Himh n burg line and cracked it- "Monk" was In the first wave. When comrades fell and Itralchai bearers were Deeded, "Monk" volun teered. When carried to n British hos pltal wounded in the head while lead' ing a bombing squad into tho face of machine guns. "Monk" eacaped to mount once more the firing .step. These and many more are the facta recounted in the petition signed bj Colonel Frank W Ward, of the 106th, by Major J. Scott Buxton and by Cap' tain James M. Conroy and Lieutenant Joseph A. Kerrigan. "Monk's" immedi-date immedi-date superiors, who fought by his sido, on foreign soil.