Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Deserts Army Thirteen Times. [ARTICLE]

Deserts Army Thirteen Times.

Patrick H<*rrigau has l>een captured. Ke is now tn custody in Sao Francisco and the military authorities say they have at last captured the champion deserter o! the American army. It islcharped that in the past 15 year ilorrigau has enlisted and deserted 13 times. And, altho his body is gorgeously tatooed, he has managed 10 escape tie recruiting officer in spite of the fact thatdecriptlousol himhad been sent all over the country. Recently the war department decided that Horrigan had deserted enough and that the unlucky thirteenth should be his last.