Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — ESCAPES FROM A GERMAN PRISON [ARTICLE]

ESCAPES FROM A GERMAN PRISON

Mrs. Walter Bfell has received some good news from her folks in Illinois in reference to her brother, C. E. Wilhoit, who entered the war as a selectman in September, 1917, and left for France July 1, 1918. Soon after entering active service at the front he was reported missing. September 8 he returned to his company, having escaped from a German prison. The captain who notified Wilhoit’s people did not say what German prison he had been in or give any of the particulars. A letter is expected now any time from the escaped soldier.