The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-03-24
Mrs Jndpe Reid.

The following letter was received by DR..
HULLETT, of this city, from Elder HALEY,
Minister of the Christian Church at Lexington,
Missouri:
LEXINGTON, Mo-, March 11th, 1854.
There are two sides to every question, and
this is no exception to the generalrule There
was a plot to rescue the prisoner-Hinton.
He was to be sent to Mrs. Reid's house, to be
rescued, but Mrs Reid disavows all knowledge
of the affair, except that she had been told he
was to be rescued.
The plan Of the bushwhackers, as nearly as
I can learn was as follows: A soldier was
bribed by thirty dollars paid to him by Miss
Fickell, to send the prisoner to Mrs. Reds at
7 o'clock, P. NJ. At a signal from without
Hinton was to start out and at the door he,
the guard, was to be seized and murdered by
the bushwhacker and his guide. The whole
plot was revealed by the bribed soldier, and
everything was accordingly arranged, in the
hope of catching the whole party. The result
was the death of the prisoner in Mrs. Reds
house, and the death of the guide to the bush
whacker; he escaping after shooting one of the
soldiers.
MIS-. 4eSlu pidudblOu 10 uo lOliOWo. OOu0
time ago Miss Fickell asked her for mon
ey for some destitute persons On the day of
the occurrence soldier called at her house,
saying Miss Fickell sent him for money with
out saying for what she wished it. After some
hesitation upon her part, she concluded Miss
F. wanted the money for the aforesaid desti-
! tute persons, she gave the money to the man.
He then told her that he was the man who had
secured the escape of certain prisoners, and
that on that night he was to release Hinton /;
whereupon she remarked 81 doubt it, and the
soldier left with the money. He says she
gave it to him to procure the release of the
prisoner she denies. She says this was the
only intimation she had that he was to be re-
leased The community, of course, great
| ly outraged and perfect storm of indigna-
ton arose against Mrs. r.. and under that
state of feeling the article was published which
you have seen, which presented the matter as
the community then understood it. My own
conviction is that she had no knowledge that
violence was to be used. The old lady 8 house
was burned, and all she had consumed. / was
the only white man who ventured to her aid.
She was very feeble, and would perhaps have
been burned if she had got no help. Suisse
uuently she was arrested, as [ understand to
appease the outraged sodiery. The General
commanding the district arrived yesterday and
issued an order for her release She is now
at Col Chies' house, who lives out where
Chamberlain lived when you were here. |
suppose she will be tried. She is old and sim
gular, and on this question of rebellion per
fectly crazy-the EXTREMIST of the extreme
She is much mortified by her imprisonment
but evidently feels that she is martyr to the
Southern cause. She avowed to me yesterday
her innocence, rs God is to be her judge. She
is, at any rate the victim Of most unfortunate
circumstances. Her brothers, uncles Jame:
and Daniel, have been very kind to her though
they are both Union men. Her friends gene
rally have been to see her and are kind 10 her
do not think that any of her friends believe
that she conspired to take the life of any one
and trust that God knows she did not 1t
would be painful indeed to think so. ThC
community, however, are not so charitable.