Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1926 — Page 7

DEC. 3, 1926

GRIM WAR JOKE RESULT DISCLOSED BY EIGER PRINTS Identity of Man Missing Seven Years Finally Established. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Finger* prints—those little black, smudgy records that never lie—have at last brought about a solution of one of the strangest mysteries growing out of the World War, according to War Department officials. Fingerprint experts of the Government always insist that out of the more than four .million prints taken of men in the military and naval service during the war, no two had exactly the same pattern. But a short time ago the experts found that the fingerprints of Glenn Lee, arrested on a charge of desertion, were identical with those of Harley A. Wade of Centerville, lowa, who volunteered for service in the lowa National Guard the day after war was declared. The reliability of fingerprints as a positive means of identification was at stake. The experts began a long investigation, with NEA Service cooperating, and here is the story the ghostly fingerprints finally have told. When war was declared, Wade was a bellboy in an Ottumwa (Iowa) hotel. He enlisted and his regiment was at Camp Mills, L. 1., in September, 1917. Wade and two others were on a special detail and did not return to their outfit until after the evening mess. Orders had been left for the cook to save food for them, and they sat down to a “big feed,” as Army meals go. “What’s the idea of all the food?” Wade asked. The cook grinned.

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“1 don’t know how my folks got trace of me," Wads. said. “I realize now the great mistakes I made. J couldn't bear to face my family after I had deserted but only two weeks ago 1 did tell the prison chaplain 1 had a niece living in Centerville, lowa. “Tell them to write me,” he said, as he was taken back to his job of raking leaves. Back at the Wade home a mother cried for joy. “Poor lamb!” she sobbed. “He was the pick of my lot. Nobody knows whether he hds had enough to eat all these years. I hope pa can get him back soon and I’ll have dinner for him tvhen he gets here. He’ll want something to eat when he gets here—he always did anyway.” Another prodigal son will return. JVlore than live billion was spent last year' for goods sold on the in stalment plan.