Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1919 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

William Keane of Chicago, who recently arrived here on board a transport from France. Keane, who was a student at Notre Dame university until Villa cut loose in Mexico, has several heroic feats to his own credit, but he attributes his bravery to Colonel Sanborn’s inspiring leadership. Keane had the Military cross pinned on his breast by King George on the same day that General Pershing was made a Knight of the Bath. He also wears the American D. S. O. Keane has lost his right leg. . Telia of Sanborn’s Bravery. His story was told by a buddy of his in the One Hundred and Thirtyfirst infantry, but young Keane interrupted with: x “Say, If you were fighting under a man like Colonel Sanborn, our commander, you couldn’t help pitching in with every drop of blood in your body. Do you know what Colonel Sanborn did at Chlpilly ridge in August, when our outfit was so badly shot up? We were up there with nothing to eat or drink for a couple of days until Colonel Sanborn personally brought rations to us on his back under the most terrific fire that I ever experienced. “He did that because he Wfffbd to be sure that the food would reach us and he figured the best way to make sure was to carry It himself. Who wouldn’t fight like the devil under a commander like that?’’ Keane went to the Mexican border with the First and re-enlisted later for overseas service. He was decorated by King George for his work at Hainel on July 4 when the One Hundred and Thirty-first was brigaded with Australians. Keane Rescues Wounded. Keane had charge of directing the work of stretcher bearers. Party after party of them went into No Man’s Land that day and failed to return. Keane went out to find them. He found them dead, lying across the stretchers with the wounded men. They had been killed in their work of mercy by the Germans. At that moment a party of Germans made a sortie to capture Keane, but it ended in his killing several of them, forcing the others to surrender and to carry the wounded men and the stretcher bearers they had killed back to the allied lines. He won the American Distinguished cross in the Argonne on October 10, when he stood In No Man’s Land directing the work of rescue till an explosive bullet shattered his leg.