Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — MERCY FOR “HELL FIGHTERS” [ARTICLE]

MERCY FOR “HELL FIGHTERS”

Yanks Who Stole Army Shirts From New York Base Get Off With Ten Days. New York.—Sergt. Arthur Holliday of the “Hell Fighters,” who lives at 157 West 147th street, Manhattan, winner of the French cross of war, was spared a long term in prison because of his war record when he pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Chatfield to stealing supplies from the army base at Fifty-eighth street, Brooklyn. Abraham Gillard, also a veteran of the negro regiment, of 90 Prince street, the first man to enlist under Colonel Hayward, was in court on a similar complaint. Judge Chatfield sentenced Holliday to ten days In jail, the term he had been in the Raymond street jail, and promised similar punishment for Gillard when he Is sentenced October 20. The men stole a couple of army shirts.