Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1915 — Valparaiso Corporal Stabbed In Shoulder With Bayonet. [ARTICLE]

Valparaiso Corporal Stabbed In Shoulder With Bayonet.

Hudson Deardurff, of Co. L, of Valparaiso, broke into print in the Indianapolis News Thursday with the following story: Corporal Hudson Deardurff, of Co. L, Third regiment, has found that when it comes to military efficiency in guard duty there is one member in the Valparaiso company who lives up to military ethics. Shortly before dawn Thursday morning Corporal Deardurff, to test the Skill of the guard, which at th»t time was the Valparaiso company, stole out into the darkness and attempted to cross one of the sentinel’s lines. He was commanded to halt. Instead of halting he continued on his way. Then came a second command to halt. Deardurff did not stop. Instead he started to run, knowing that the guard did not have ball ammunition. The sentinel pursued him and with fiixed bayonet the wound-toe fugitive was stabbed in the shoulder. Then Deardurff halted. He found that blood had been drawn and had to go to the regimental infirmary, where Major Humphreys and his assistants patched up the damaged shoulder. The Valparaiso company is a new organization and the men did not know that it is not the custom to do sentry duty with bayonets. However, Corporal Deardurff admits the man did his duty, painful though it was.