IN GAOL FOR A FRIEND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18025, 25 February 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

IN GAOL FOR A FRIEND.

SERVED ANOTHER'S SENTENCE How a forrner British soldier repaid his debt to an American soldier who saved his lifo on tho French battlefields, vt s revealed when tho British ex-soldier, Harry Haloy, was released from tli e militia prison at Port Leavenworth, Kansas. ' Haley and the American, Thomas Jones joined tho British Army together at the outbreak of war* Several months later the two men took part in a'raid at dawn. On the way back to the British lines under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, Haley, fell with a bullet in his leg. Jones bound up the wound and remained in No Man's Land with him the whole day until it was dark, when he carried him to shelter,

On the entry of the United States into the war, Jones transferred to th e •United States Army.' The next time the two men met-was a little more than six mouths ago in Toronto. Jones was still serving in the Army, but ho told Haloy that in order to visit his wife, who was seriously ill in Toronto, and needed him, he had deserted and was afraid to return.

Haley immediately offered to impersonate him, took his papers, donned his uniform, and, crossing tho border, surrendered w the nearest garrison, He was sent to Kansas, where he was sentenced by court-martial to imprisonment. After he had. served six months Jones arrived at Fort Leavenworth and discovered tho deception. Asked by the commanding officer how he came to be thore instead of Jones, Haley simply said, " I am a single man, and have no responsibilities. Jones has a wife and family, who needed him. It was a.chance to pay him back. I took it."