At the Williamsburg Hospital, where the boy was revived, he said he went to the cellar to look for something, and found the door closed when he attempted to leave. He screamed and beat upon the walls until he became unconscious, he said. The vault was so far below the ground that his signals were unheard.
England Aids Belgians
The English National Committee for the Relief of Belgium, organized as an auxiliary of the American Relief Fund, has made an excellent start. Although its appeal was issued a few days ago, $400,000 has already been subscribed.
Many Anglo-Americans have contributed, among them Countess Strafford, who sent $500. The success which the appeal has met is regarded in London as a wonderful tribute to the American organization.
Land French Boy’s Valor.
Jacques Goujon, seventeen years old, has been mentioned in military orders, and a military medal has been given him. The youth killed two German sentinels, blew up, with the aid of bombs, two quick-firers of the enemy, was captured, but succeeded in escaping, carrying with him at the same time a machine gun of the Germans to the French lines. Later, during a German counter-attack, Goujon’s right arm was blown off by a shell.
The military authorities at Lyons, Goujon’s home city, had refused to accept him for military duty on account of his age. He went to Paris, where he was accepted because of his robust constitution.
Weds Invalid Rescuer.
Frank A. Seabert, seventy-seven, former superintendent of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, has fulfilled what he declared was a debt of honor, when he married Miss Jeannette A. Thomas, forty-seven, the woman who saved his life recently. The ceremony occurred in the Pasadena Hospital, Pasadena, Cal.
Recently Miss Thomas threw herself upon a discharged employee of Seabert’s in the Seabert mansion at Sierra Madre, who had attempted to kill her employer. She was shot in the spine, and physicians say she is paralyzed for life. For five years Miss Thomas had been Mr. Seabert’s private secretary. The first Mrs. Seabert died four years ago.