DEATH OF J. L. LINDE

Mrs. Linde, of Lone Pine, has received a letter from the 
captain of the company of which her late husband was a 
member.  The letter, published in the last Inyo 
Independent, pays a warm tribute to Mr. Linde, as the 
best man in the company, a splendid mechanic, a fine 
soldier, fearless, and already recommended for promotion.  
“In your gief be proud of your husband; he was a man.”

The accident occurred in Yorkshire, England, but, Capt. 
Auker writes, its cause will probably never be known.  
The machine was first noticed by the stopping of the 
engine, at about 800 feet elevation.  It remained level 
until it lost flying speed, and then went into a dive, 
then a slow spin, until it struck ground.  Linde was in 
the front seat and was instantly killed.  His pilot, 
Lieut. Ellsmere, was not fatally injured but has lost 
all memory of the flight.

Linde was buried in a cemetery at Tadeaster, Yorkshire, 
with full military honors by American and British troops.

The departed soldier was born in Denmark August 21, 1884.  
He came to Independence in 1908.  After the burning of 
his garage there two years ago he moved to Lone Pine, 
from where he enlisted last December.  Previously, he 
lived in Los Angeles, where he was a Y. M. C. A. member, 
and where he graduated from an auto school.

Besides his wife, now in Lone Pine, he leaves a young son.

The Inyo Register
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, November 28, 1918 – Page One

Transcribed by Denise S. Flynn