San Antonio Police Department
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On March 25, 2006, at a parking lot at
1011 E. Houston, a vehicle was broken into during the
morning, and a case was taken containing rare historical photos and
documents. The photo is from 1917 and shows a Fort Sam Houston soldier, Harold
A. Bouton, standing with his horse near the Ft. Sam stables. The
original photo is approximately 8" x 10" and is sepia (reddish
brown) in color (shown here is a scan of a xerox copy). The second
photo is a page from the journal or diary kept during World War I by Bouton as
he was leaving San Antonio and going to France. The handwritten diary is
approximately 8" x 12" and 1/2" thick. The cover is
hard-bound in a faded black, and some of the pages are loose.
These historical items were to be presented to the Fort Sam Houston
Historical Museum by the son of Harold Bouton, but were stolen from
the Bouton family car before they could deliver them.
If anyone has any information about the present location of
the photo or diary, or about the person or persons who removed the
historical documents from the vehicle, please contact: |
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