The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-16


known. at the War Department, but he
made faint EXCUSES and aid MOI GO "
he has been about the city every week
or two since. ,i. A.....l ,rrl.
About the 2Sth day q May ne told g
secret police othcer that he was await.
Ing 9 new and better appointment rom
the Secretary Of War. Strange 70 say,
he offered his sery ICES W Captain stone
District Provost Marshal IN the city al
the Same time.
,IWould respectfully ask 70 % IN
formed whether he p not otAnhmpostoFi
or perhaps, 9 secret agent o. the enemy
and that he be drreated ana made prove
the truth OF his asseft tlons. ~ Z. ~ w, @
iIihave the honor 10 be Your o6edient
servant, il,.. ..gn--, ~. OYER, ~.
ttGn'f lCGpa ga, Wis' Va. 3fL: CON:
In answer 10 the letter y received tnt
following telegram: apn' ~
+oap ,ui WAsHtNdToN, July q, 1854,
1salii 4 AL. SI55,i;Is,.,, 49,.
Stksi r SSe''' ,4i1'.'sE'ttS sSSa.'
Nothing Is known oI,"Col." Lane
No such person employed on secretser'
vice by the Department. ~. -. 2.5
" '.i'a' i'tJAMES q. dARDls
- reoto'let t1tast''eDeetor'
Lane was away from the city when
the telegram was received. Believing
then that Lane was an impo tor, ! In
structed Mr.. Tracy TO arrest him the
first time he came to the city, which ht
did ON the 18th, of. August. Lane told
Mr.. Tracy previously, that he had re-
signed his position as river policeman
but was awaiting a better position from
the War Department. Ny suspicious
were now realized; he was really
an impOStor, Tracy, brought him
to my office, and after a long con-
Versation with him regarding his &C.
tiong since his ,soiouFn In Wheeling 7
lodged him in the Atheheui1l. he i'm.
mediately wrote TO his uncle by all
means to secure his papers, and added
the words, at the War Department. II
was evident that hemeRnt his other pa
pers. Immediately i sent to his home
In Wetzel county, W, Va, and had his
t trunk brought to the city without .1,a nis
knoIledge, EAan'neu IA 5is n Mn 81 In bs
ioansLnis SpgI6s " shoSa5 that bp
W. ,uas SischstrSeJ I in'trSs from the River Police
service %Sr : and baNiSLgd from the city Of
Memphis by Gen, Hurlbut about the
5th al 'Aprif. 1894. ~ Among his papers
was also fouud proceedings Of initiation
for rettinp into the esecret orders then sc
threatening to the country. Bis letter
to his,uncle showed that he had been
maSInr speeches to meetings in wetzel
county, when no Union man Of that
COUNTY knew Of any public meetings
having been held during that time.
these speeches. Among his papers
were ai, q @ a3sE Sc
non Tortb' is1l reenmmendInP 1 him to M most NO ali
the iIftayent heads OF the Government,
far @ the imnortant nosition OF Chief 81
ri Pivsr % pnIjcs If % tha wSSIe western coun.
s,se' tsn noS;ronS ~ t@ nravan, S snSh an 90.
cnrrence, and to warn the Government
Of the secret associat tlons then being or
0anized in our State, /. on the 10th day
81 Aupust. telegraphed as follows:
HEADouARTERs, Mn. Con-,
WHEEL!Ne, W. Az aug. ~ 4oSt, -, ;
Hon. 70. M: StdMto,1, SecretdTy g war
washington, " u: uh
Have arrested j. G. Lane, late on Sc
cret police duty at Memphis, but for the
last four, months, about this city; and
findine-important papers on his person
of immediate value to the War Depart.
ment, would respectfully recommenc
the. forwarding OF Z" Co" Lane and pa
pers, with statement OF capture, 70 your
office, E. OVER,
Capt. eth ". Y, INF, MI. Com.
Tho same dav the following answer
ca1ns. ~
WASHINGTON. Aug. %. 1854.
-. -
Cdpt. OVer:
Bring Lane and his papers mere I'M
medialely yourself, with secure guard
Come by way OF Pittsburg and Harris
burg. +. NJ. STANTON,
Secretary 0 war.
Itool Lane To washington on Mon
flnv. Aug. n: arrived on Tuesday noon
and reported ON Wednesday, and turn
ed Lane over TO Col. Ingraham OF
Thursday. by order Of the Secretary,o o
War.
When / held the commitment o
Lane In NV hands, 1 told Lane of It
and he remarked TINT he should likI
to procure his papers from home anC
then he would be able TO return Will
me 10 Wheeling, NV announcing Il
him TINT his paDers were in the hand
0f the Secretary Of War almost stunned
him. as he knew nothing of my havini
nronnred Them. He INQUIRED anxiouslJ
whether / had found any papers re
lntInV To any secret order among them
/ repfied had, He answered that II
had let him alone for two more week
ho would have EXPOSED tho whole com
many of them In Wetzel county; thu
he knew oil about them. To sum uI
the case, | believe hnve accomplished
tho tho EolInwing: Lane was stopped in
career dangerous to the government
he was travelling on government trans
nortntion when not allowed, and wheI
be WAN n citizen and nothing else. H.
procured government Transportation
n Cincinnati when he was cominl
from Memphis to Wheellng-at leaS
he has admitted that much. ] hRvu
stoned Lane from going around th
country as an impostor, for he wa
nothing else, when he Travelled abou
the country at government expense a
Lieutenant "Colonel" and secret po
liceman, when he was really nothinJ
Of the kind.
I deemed his papers Of immens
value to tho War Department, as the!
to totIS be- charged r S " with the infringement Q
which position nc, 0y nus iGht many Sars ra'ISp ob
mined before beITe detected, /
1 II.