Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-01-18

detective left me to make inquiries
about Jackson. In the course oil a
conversation ne asked him some
questions about Lexington winch
the young man did not answer
correctly. We both knew this two
hours later, and | then urged him
to get into the Union lines as
speedily as possible. 1t seemed to
me that he was suspected and III
danger, but he felt confident that
such was not the case, ana declar-
ed his Intention to remain as long
as did. The very next morning
he was put under arrest as a sus-
pect, and the detective then set
another trap. He dropped into
the hotel for a chat, now being IN
seeming good humor, and, after
half an hours general cOnversa-
tiOn, he observed
81 must 90 up to the jail. The
provost marshal has arrested
citizen who claims 20 be a resident
of Franklin, my old home, and he
wants me to come up and see II l
can identity him. Would you like
to 60 along y
"Certainly.'
| suspected trap, and on the
way up street it came to me that
jackson had been arrested. lie
would clam Lexington as his
home, while the detective would
say Franklin to put me OIL my
guard. He believed that We were
in collusion. He further believed
that by bringing us together with
out warning
WE WOULD BETRAY OURSELVES.
| might be wrong IN my deduc-
tions, but was ncrved mp when
we entered the jail to see Jackson.
He conld have no warning that he
was to meet me, and it was an
anxious question as to how he
would act. 1t was my fellow spy,
sure enough, who was broughto out,
but he had the nerve Of herO.-
Not by so much as wink did he
betray the fact that we had ever
met. When called upon to idenu-
fy him failed to remember that !
ever noticed him. Had he been
right in his answers about Lex
Ington he wouid have been set at
liberty, but he was wrong III sever
al instances. He 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 of IN his answers. NO
one could say that he was a FEEDER
al 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 couple Of days. He did
not suspect that he was being
watched, but such vas the fact
When allowed to walk IN the cOrn-
dor for exercise he showed by his
gait that he had been drilled as a
soldier. In his cell, secure from
observation, as he supposed, he
took from his bootleg a paper on
which he had written down the
names of several Lexington busi-
ness men. had cautioned him
against having the slightest scrap
of writing about him, but he proba-
bly, feared to trust to his memory
entirely. Indeed it had failed
him, and lie now thought to re-
fresh it. 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 a cOlored man en-
ployed in the hotel who had a
friend at 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 dcserters
identified him as a Union soldier
he made a clean breast Of It. Two
Confederates were dressed IN blue
and brought into jail and played
off on the boy as Federals who had
lust deserted. An older head
would have suspected the trick,
but he believed thai all was lost
and admitted his identity. 1t was
singular, that, while Jackson sent
himself to death, he was so nervy
in
HIS REFUSAL TO BETRAY ME.
When he confessed vast 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 adj
hitting that we were both Federal
spies and acting in cOrcert. While
he doubtless believed the state
ment so far as an arrest was con-
cerned, he steadily replied;
GLOW could he have confessed
10 an untruth? Bring him here
and let me hear him say so.p
That baflled them. | had made
several friends among the officers,
and without appearing to interest
myself too much, interested them
in Jackson's case. Had he not
onfassad we conld have saved