The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-02-02


young man did not answer correctly. We both
knew this two hours later, and then urged him 20
get into the Union lines speedily possible IL
seemed TO me that he was suspected and in danger,
but ne felt confident that such was not the case,
and declared his intention to remain long 90
did. The very next morning he was put under
arrest q suspect, and the detective then set
another trap for me. He dropped into the hotel
for chat, now being In seeming good humor, and,
after half an hours general conversation, he OBJ
served:
al must go up to the Jail. The provost marshal
has arrested citizen who claims to be q resident Of
Franklin, my old home and he wants me TO come
up and see II can identify him. Would you like
TO 20 along9"
Certainly"
l suspected Q trap, and on the way up the street
1t came to me that Jackson had been arrested. He
would have claimed Lexington his home while
the detective would say Franklin to put me OF my
guard. lie believed that we were in collision. He
further believed that by bringing together
without warning we would betray ourselves. /
might be wrong in my deductions, but was nerved
up when we entered the Jail to see Jackson. He
could have no warning that he was to meet me, and
ii was an anxious question as to how he would act.
1t was my fellow spy, sure enough, who was
brought out, but he had the nerve of hero. Not
| by 50 much q wink did he betray the fact that
we had ever met. When called upon to identity
him failed TO remember that had ever noticed
him. Had he been right in his answers about Lex
ing ton he would have been set at liberty, but he
was wrong in several instances lie had somehow
got the names of the streets mixed up with those
of Cincinnati, and he could not give the correct
names of the leading business men. When asked
about the lay of the ground he was way Off in his
answers No one could say that he was Federal
spy, however, as he had been very prudent in his
movements, and If he could have held up his nerve
he would have been turned loose in q couple of
days. He did not suspect that he was being
watched, but such was the fact. When allowed to
walk in the corridor for exercise he showed by his
gait that he had been drilled as a soldier. In his
cell, secure from observation he supposed, he
took from his bootleg paper of which he had
written down the names of several Lexington busi-
meas men. / had cautioned him against having the
slightest scrap of writing about him, but he prob
ably feared TO trust to his memory entirely. In
deed, it had failed him, and he now thought to re-
fresh il. An excuse was soon made to search him,
the paper removed and then they began to look
upon him with suspicion. For three days heard
of him every few hours through q colored man
employed in the hotel, who had friend In the jail
At the end of that time young jackson lost his
courage He admitted that he did not live at
| Lexington, and when told that two Federal
deserters identified him as Union soldier he made
clean breast of it, Two Confederates were
dressed in blue and brought to jail and played OF
on the boy Federals who had Just deserted An
older head would have suspected the trick, but he
believed that all was lost and admitted the iden-
tity.
| 1t was singular that, while jackson sent himself
to DEATH he was nervy in his refusal to betray
me. When he confessed l was still in the town.
One word from him would have caused my arrest
He was told that had been arrested and had made
a confession admitting that we were both Federal
spies and acting in concert. While he doubtless
believed the statement so far as arrest was con-
cerned, he steadily replied:
allow could he have confessed to an untruth9
Bring him here and let me hear him say So"
That baffied them. / had made several friends
among the officers, and without appearing to inter-
est my self too much interested them in Jacksons
case. Had he not have confessed we could have
saved him. Had he not confessed that he had
passed out the lines with information we could
have probably had him sent of as prisoner of war.
AS last effort to hold me the detective
promised young Jackson his life and liberty If he