Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — SAM DUVALL GETS A HUN [ARTICLE]

SAM DUVALL GETS A HUN

Rensselaer Boy Captures German at Point of Monkey Wrench. An Associated Press dispatch from the French battlefront in some of the Friday afternoon papers iiad the following mention of Samuel O. Duvall, sou! of Mr. and Mrs. John Duvall of Rensselaer, who has been in ambulance driving work with the French army for more than a year past: Paris, June 14.—Samuel O. Duvall, of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, is the first ambulance jdriver to take a German prisoner. Duvall’s car broke down north of Chateau Thierry. While he was tinkering with it he saw a German who had been in hiding, running across a field. Duvall, who was unarmed, rushed forward and leveled his monkey wrench at the boche, calling upon him to surrender. The German threw up his hands and Duvall took his rifle away from him and turned him over to the doughboys. The hardy American ambulance man got hjs just congratulations.