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The Raymer Enterprise
Raymer, New Raymer, Weld County, Colorado
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Nineteen-year-old German soldier Adolph Rugemann, a former reformatory inmate, deserted the front in France twice, attempted to flee to Holland and Denmark, reached Holstein, but was shot and killed by landsturmers near Neustadt while escaping custody.
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German Deserter Is Shot Down by Landsturmer After Making Hazardous Trip.
Berlin.-After a desperate fight from the battle front, Adolph Rugemann, a nineteen-year-old soldier, who was sent to the trenches a few months ago, has been killed near Neustadt, Holstein, by the bullet of a landsturmer.
The young man, who had been an inmate of a reformatory before he was drafted for the army, tried to desert two days after his arrival at the front in France, but was quickly recaptured and sent to outer trenches as a punishment.
After spending three weeks under the fire of the French guns he deserted again. Armed with two army revolvers, he sneaked away from the front and tried to reach Holland through Belgium. When he found this impossible he attempted to get to Denmark.
Walking at night and begging his food at isolated farm houses, the deserter got to Holstein, but in Neustadt he was caught. On the way to Eutin, where he was to be locked up, he jumped from the train and made for a nearby forest. The two landsturmers who were guarding him fired at him from the swiftly moving train and killed him.
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adolph rugemann killed by landsturmers' bullets while escaping.
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Adolph Rugemann, a 19-year-old German soldier and former reformatory inmate, deserted the front in France twice: first recaptured and punished, second time he traveled armed through Belgium toward Holland, then Denmark, reaching Holstein by night walking and begging food. Caught in Neustadt, he escaped custody by jumping from a train en route to Eutin and was shot dead by his two landsturmer guards from the moving train.