On May 18,1919, The Baltimore Sun reported Lieutenant Harry J. Bracker “Was Missing From Holabird As $29,204 Disappears”. That’s somewhere around $450,000 in 2023 dollars. When the staff at Fort Holabird checked in the payroll safe, they found the pay pouch filled with ashes and a horseshoe. I contacted the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, but as yet I haven’t been able to find what became of Lieutenant Bracker.
(The Baltimore Sun, 5/18/19)
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