The New York Times/1918/11/11/Attacks Ill Marine
ATTACKS ILL MARINE.
Special Policeman in Newark Clubs Shell-Shock Victim.
The Newark police are searching for a man wearing the uniform of a special policeman who beat Private Clifford Robinson, a wounded marine, so severely that he had to be taken to the City Hospital for treatment. Witnesses said some men asked Robinson to accompany them to a saloon. At the door he was told to stop by the officer, but, being deaf from shell shock, he did not hear the command. The man wearing the officer's coat struck him over the head with a club and fled.
Robinson was taken to the City Hospital, and thence to the Naval Base Hospital, Brooklyn. He has served eighteen months in France as a member of the 5th Machine Gun Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 23d Company, and was severely wounded.