Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-06

furnishing excuses why it did not arrive.
Jackson could have sold thirty horses
while selling the three, and IN order to
hang on he had to buy in two or three
mules and resell them. My meeting with
him had been surrounded with every safe
guard, and no one could say that we had
ever met or knew each other.
The detective left me to make inquiries
about jackson. In the course of CONVEX
sation he asked him some questions about
Lexington which the young man did not
answer correctly. We both knew this two
hours later, and then urged him to get in
to the Union lines as speedily as possible.
1t seemed to me that he was suspected and
in danger, but he felt confident that such
was not the case, and declared his intention
to remain as long as 1 did. The very next
morning he was put under arrest as a sus-
pect, 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 converse
ton, he observed:
81 must go up TO the Jail. The Provost
Marshal has arrested citizen who claims
to be resident Of Franklin, my old home,
and he wants me to come up and see if l
can identify him. Would you like to go
aloDg?"
Certainly"
l suspected trap, and on the way up
street 1t came to me that jackson had been
arrested. He would have claimed Licking
ton as his home, while the detective would
say Franklin TO put me Off my guard. He
believed that we were in collision. He
further believed that by bringing US to-
gether without warning we would betray
ourselves. / might be wrong in my deduc-
tions, but l gas nerved up when we en-
h .n.l
have no warning that he was to meet me,
and 1t 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 a
hero. Not by SO much as wink did he be-
tray the fact that we had ever met. When
called upon to identify him l failed to re-
member that had ever noticed him. Had
he been right in his answers about Lexing-
ton he would have been set at liberty, but
he was wrong in several 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 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
loose in couple of days. He did not sus-
pect 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 soldier. In his
cell, secure from observation, as he sup
posed, he took from his bootleg a paper on
which he had written down the names Of
several Lexington business men. l 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 he now
thought to refresh it. An excuse was soon
made to search him, the paper removed, and
then they began to look upon N with sus-
picion. For three days heard of him every
few hours through 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,
1t was singular that, while Jackson sent
himself TO death, he was SO nervy II his re-
fusal to betray me. When he confessed
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 an arrest was concerned, he steadily re-
piled:
"How could he have confessed to an n-
truthl Bring him here and let me hear
him say So"
That baffled them. 1 had made several
friends among the officers, and without ap-
pearing to interest myself too much, l in
terested them in Jackson's case. Had he
not 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 off as prisoner
Of war. AS a last effort to secure hold on
me the detective promised young Jackson
his life and liberty if he would furnish evil
dence to convict me.
"How can If' he replied. "What can I
say against him that he could not prove
falsel"
They were going to arrest me and con-
front me with the statement that jackson
had confessed all, but they were too late.
was beyond their reach. 1t wns year be-
fore l ascertalned the poor boys fate After
hearing that had left, and being told that
a court martial would order him to be hung,
he hung himself in his cell the morning that
the battle began.-N. Y. Sun.