The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-02-21
IS BELLE STARR BELLE B0YDs

| Is BELLE STAkR BELLE bUIUt
| A Western Amazon Aasassinated and Al.
legged to be the e1-Confedefate spy-A
Story Probably Mixed.
Nev York World.
FoRr SMITH, ARK, Feb.-A tele'
gram from Eufaula received here to-
night confirms last nights dispatches
that Belle Starr, better known as Belle
Boyd, had been shot by unknown parties,
who fred upon her from ambush, and
left no clue. The murder took place
Sunday night, on the Choctaw side of the
Canadian river, near her home. Search
ing parties of mounted Indian police are
securing the neighborhood, but thus fa'
without success. Her husband, James
Starr, who was summoned by telegraph
from the city, announced before leaving
that he would kill the man who shot his
wife. no matter who he was. The neigh.
borhood of Eufaula is greatly excited
over the deed. Notwithstanding the
criminal notoriety Of the woman, she left
many friends who have determined tc
ayenge her death.
Bell Boyd was born at Martinsburg.
now in West Virginia, in 1846, and lived
| there until 1861. Her father WAS mer.
chant, her mother handsome woman.
of good family, and the girls associa'
tions and education excellent. During
a visit to the neighboring town of Win.
chester, after war had been declared, this
dashing young horsewoman heard Of
Federal movements which threatened
her abeloved South" as she called it.
She gal!oped by night to stonewall JACK
son and told him what she knew. From
that time she was attached" to the
stonewall Brigade with more or less reg
ularity. She rode across the battlefield
of Front Royal and carried to Jackson
dispatches which sent him in pursuit OF
Banks. She had already become the pet
and pride of the Southern army.
She soon became known az "Belle
Boyd, the famous rebel spy" At that
| time she was a girl of strong aquiline
| features, coal-black eyes and hair, q
magnificent figure and the physical
strength and elasticity of an Amazon.
Martinsburg was most Of the time within
the Union lines, and Belle Boyd's secret
| service was of much value to the South
ern commanders. On a particularly
daring expedition she was captured and
sent to Washington. Here she became
| quite as much of a favorite with some of
| the young Federal officers and with some
Congressman as she had already been
with the soldiers and public men of the
South. She hesitated at nothing to make
| q stroke for the Confederscy. She who
had by her wiles and smiles captured so
| many Union secrets was at last prisoner
hersea,:5s,
Afteissemaining some time in the old
Capitol Prison in charge of William P.
Wood, she was exchanged for the cele.
brated Col. Michael Corcoran, of the
Irish Brigade, who had been q Confed.
crate prisoner since first Bull Run. After
Gettysburg she vas made prisoner,
! court.martialed and ordered shot, but her
sentence was commuted to banishment
III the South. Soon afterwards Jefferson
Davis sent her with important dispatches
to Great Britain. She sailed from
Wilmington, N. o., May 8, 1854. The
vessel was captured, the adventures
taken to Boston, court.martialed and
second time ordered shot. President Lin.
coin commuted her punishment to ban
iahment.
She soon afterwards crossed the ocear
and created great sensation, when
Aug. 25, 1864, she married her captor
Lieut.. s. W. Hardinge, in London. Hel
husband lived only q few months, ane
the young widow made her debut on tht
stage in England. The war over shs
retired to private life. Subsequent t
her second husbands death, about sever
years ago, she started out as lecturer al
/ means of maintaining her three chill
dren, two of whom are in convent
Soon after she married her third hus
band, Mr.. High, and made Detroit he
home.
During her marriageto Col. Hammond
in 1880-S1, who was then acting as trav
cling salesman, Belle Boyd lived OF
North Thirteenth street, in Philadelphia
She gave some readings at st. George
Hall. At that time the eldest of he
| little girls was about thirteen years old
Subsequently she went to live in Texas
where she married successfully Colone
Younger, Sam Starr and Jim Starr
Several years ago she shot and wounde'
man whom she charged with imprope
relations with her daughter.
For some years she has lived in th
Choctaw Nation, and has frequentl,
been in Fort Smith on business and as
witness at the United States Court
After the death Of her husband, Col
Younger, in Missouri, she married San
Starr and lived with him in the Chocta'
Nation. With her husband, she WAS il
Forth Smith about three years ago an
the two left for home in the evening, bu
on the way home starr was killed by a
old enemy named West.
Soon afterwards she married her lat
husbands cousin, James Starr, who va
in this city when the telegram announc
ing her death was received. He is a tai
we'll formed Indian, with long hair fall
inc down over his shoulders. There wa