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been to a moonlight picnic on the beach. And then he had gone- back to the barracks and let her pass out of his mind Just as every soldier boy forgets dozens and dozens of girls every year. . On this particular" day of Oct. 2 when he met her again, she said: "I want to see you today." He answer ed: "If you want to see me, you know where you can find me. Come up to the headquarters." "That was all that was said then," Peterson's story to Judge Foell went on. "I walked away. I was in a hurry. "That night I went out to a fruit store. She was there, seemed to be looking for me. She was in pain and weak. She stumbled and I caught her. I carried herip to the office of the surgeon-captain of our regiment. There a baby was born. "I was threatened with court-martial. I knew what that meant. I preferred any kind of a charge to that. I would do anything rather than go up against a frame-up in an army court-martial. "When an officer of the army is the chief witness against you, makes the complaint, is the accuser and everything else, the private soldier has no chance. The young woman had lived at one time, it was said, at the quarters of the surgeon-captain who took her part and accused me. "So I married her on Oct. 5, 1911, at Lane Hospital in San Francisco, three days after the baby came. On Dec. 8, at the request of my people back here, I came home." The wife deserted him, he said, on Memorial Day, 1912, taking with her the child. The name of the surgeon-captain was not introduced into the testi mony. o o NEWSBOYS ELECT TONIGHT Newsboys' Protective Union of Chicago will elect officers for ensu ne Vear at their hall. ISO W Wash ington st, tonight BITS OF NEWS Wireless phone being used in Euro pean war, Dr. F. H. Millener told As sociation of Railroad Electrical En gineers now convening at Hotel La Salle. School of goldfish moved .from Lincoln Park Lilly pond to beaver A pen in zoo while pond is being cleaned. Mrs. Mary Fagg, 63, 1254 Sedg wick St., badly burned when gaso line stove exploded. Serg't Kenny smothered flames and saved her life. Adolph Kraus, international pres. of Jewish Order of B'nai B'rith, is sued appeal for Jews of U. S. to con tribute to fund to help starving in habitants of Jerusalem. Purse-snatcher obtained $25 from Mrs. T. A. Postlph, 2946 W. 12th st Police searching for James Almerz, 10, 10229 S. LaSalle st Federated Orthodox Jewish Chari ties hel ddrastic reorganization to prevent dissolution. v - Jacob Rissman and Max Bernstein, bondsmen, held by Judge Landis on charge of perjury. Tried to give bond in case of Erick Erickson, bankrupt furniture dealer. Internal revenue colectors sent warning to dealers manufacturers' articles coming under war tax. Dairy Show to close tonight o o ATLANTA AXIOMS If the wolf camps on your door mat train him to chew up bill collectors. The man who makes good doesn't wait for opportunity to knock. He has the door wide open. A poor author is like a cheap print- $ ing press; he wastes a lot of ink, but never succeeds in making a good impression. Father Time probably hands a wo man a new wrinkle occasionally merely aa a reminder that she hasn't been forgotten. Atlanta JournaL o o "When were you married?" "Just about six check books ago."