Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-07-11

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Mrs. Longmead? I don't know you
) sir.n ..,.e o..
"Ah, perhaps you remember one
certain Jack Munson, at Oxford, somt
years ago." sR ~
81 have not the faintest idea of who
you are. You are laboring under a
mistake, for my name is not Longmead'
"At the Broadway! When did I ar
rive there ?"' 7i'i p t'''9'., ~
son Thursday last.o ANA jsji b.
"And what do you propose doing
with me?'' as.G 5f sa' .f.,-
II shall be compelled to place you
under guard; SO give me the KEYS Of
your trunk, and will have your bag
gage searched and then sent to you.n
Mrs. Longmead acknowledged thai
she was caught, and requested to be sent
to the Burnet House, with her mother
and sister, and thither we did send her
! L now telegraphed Stanton that the
! birds had been Gagged, and requested
4 that they be turned over to the com
mander of this department, which was
accordingly done.
The General always took me along
when he visited them at the Burnet.
talked to Mrs. L., while the General
1 talked to the mother and daughter
Now, it so happened that in the Gen.
erals younger days Mrs. L.. had been
/ his sweetheart, and never did / see a
woman so artfully wrap man around
her finger as Mrs. L. did General.
--- The result was that these three
| female spies went scot free. 1t was
during these conversations that Mrs. j..
confessed to me the part she had taken;
When the war began she went to
Canada, and there, by some means OBJ
tanned papers certifying thatshe was a
British subject. She then went to Wash
ington and obtained the signature Of
| the British Minister, and then TO Mr..
Stanton, aud, on the strength of her
paper, obtained a pass through the
Union lines to Richmond. After trans
acting her business she came west, and
approaching the Union lines on the
heaC, waters of the Big Sandy. was
halted and conveyed to the headquart-
eirs of distinguished Indiana General.
She rode in 4 carriage, and had quite a
retinue of servants, representing herself
to be an English woman suffering from
rheumatism. The General command
| ing, hoping to bluff her, proposed to
send her to the Surgeo1 General of the
department for examination. Nothing
daunted she thanked him, and request
ed that she be sent Immediately. The
surgeon had her carried up to his Office.
she affecting much pain. She removed
her shoes and stockings. Her feet and
ankles were much swollen mot from
rheumatism, but from walking.) The
learned surgeon took up his stethescope
and placed it TO her heart. She was
more than match for him here, for
she was the only person had ever met
who conld cause her own heart to pal
plate when she chose. The doctor
listened buta moment, threw down the
instrument, and begged her pardon for
doubling her veracity. She was carried
back to her carriage, and given pass
and sent northward rejoicing.
AT another time she had some dis
patches to send southwark. There was
regiment of soldiers going up the
Kentucky Central railroad that day
Dressed as an Irish servant girl (and she
could assume the character to perfectiOn)
she succeeded in getting one Of the sol
dfers to pass her on the train as his wife.
After the train had started the authOri-
ties at Cincinnati learned that she had
gone, and suspecting her ierrand. tele-
graphed to Lexington, giving a descrip-
| ton of the woman, and ordering her
arrest, but by some means no action
was taken until the next morning. In
the meantime the train had arrived at
Lexington. Mrs. L., walked two miles
into the country, borrowed horse, rode
twelve miles further, and meeting a
man on the road whom she knew, gave
him her dispatches, and told him to de-
liver them at a certain rebel Generals
headquarters, She then rode back to
where the horse had been borrowed,
and afterwards rode to Lexington, and,
unmolested, took the afternoon train
for Covington. The authorities, learn
ing that she had gone to the country
on her arrival at Lexington, We're in
hot pursuit. When they got into Lex
| ington she was far on her way. A dis
patch was forwarded to prominent
Covington detective to arrest her by
all means on her arrival in that city.
Some friendly station operator placed
/ copy of this, dispatch in her hands.
She was then in great strait. How
ever, she did not despair. Seeing ,es-
lie Coombs, wife and daughter, sitting
few seats ahead of her in the coach,
sat down near them, and soon drew the
ladies into conversation. She told
them her husband was soldier, and
that she had induced him to desert, and
for this offense she was to be arrested
on her arrival at Covington. Her pit
iful story, with many tears, enlisted
the sympathy of the ladies, and finally
of the venerable Kentuckian himself.
At that time the rear door Of the rear
car of an incoming train was always
kept locked, when arriving at the
depot, fsW .lssgol
Arrangement was made that this
door should not be locked on this occa-