The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-12-05
ANDRES
The story of His Death as Told by
the English

The story of His Death as Told by
the English To-day.
There are few monuments in West
minister Abbey which have attracted
more attention than hat which COM
memorates the sad fate of Mai. Andre.
Perhaps no event of the American rev.
olution made more aching hearts on
both sides of fhe Atlantic. Great
Britain lost two armies, mi thous-
andS of her brave soldiers were slain
upon the field of battle. but it may be
doubted If so many tears were shed
for them all as for the young soldier
who died upon the gallows.
John Andre was born in London, the
son of a GeneveSe merchant, in 1151.
He was sent to Geneva to be edu-
Gated, but returned to London at the
age of eighteen, and, his talents hay
ing introduced him to a literary CO.
terie, he became enamOred of Miss
Honora Sneyd, a young lady of singu-
lar beauty and accomplishments. AS
both were very young the marriage
was postponed, and Andre was i'll
duced to engage in trade. But he was
ambitious, and at the age of twenty
entered the army. At the outbreak Of
the American war he was sent to
Canada and taken prisoner at st.
Johns, but, being exchanged, he be-
came the favorite of that gay and gal
liant officer, Gen. Sir Henry Clinton,
| who appointed him his aid-de-camp,
and Don his %adjutant general.
Young, handsome. clever. full of taste
and gayety, an artist and a poet, he
| was the life of the army, and the little
viceregal court that was assembled
around it's chief. The British occu-
| pied American cities, and while the
troops of Washington were naked and
starving at Valley Forge, Sir Henry
was holding a series of magnificent
revels at Philadelphia, which were
planned and presided over by the gal
| liant Maj. Andre. Philadelphia was
evacuated; Sir Henry returned to New
York, and Maj. Andre, who had known
| the wife of the American Gen. Arnold,
in Philadelphia, entered into a CORE
| spondence with him, and was the
agent through whom the British gen.
eral ba~rgained, under promise of a
large reward, for the surrender at
| West Point, the key Of the highlands
| of the River Hudson.
Andre visited Arnold within the
American lines to carry out this
treachery; he was captured on his re-
| turn by three American farmers, who
refused his brides; the papers pro-
claiming Arnold's treason were found
upon him, and by his Owl frank con
fession he was convicted as a spy and
sentenced to be hanged. Arnold, by
the blunder of an American officer, got
warning and escaped ON board the
Vulture. Sir Henry Clinton, by the
most urgent representations to Gen.
Washington, tried to save his ~favorite
adiutant, but in vain. There was but
one way-the surrender of Arnold, to
meet the fate decreed to Andre. That
was impossible, and the young adju-
tant, then in his twenty-ninth year,
after a vain appeal to Washington
that he might die a soldiers death,
was hanged on the west bank of the
Hudson, almost in sight of the city
held by the British army, Oct. 2, 1880.
If his life had been undistinguished
he died with heroic firmness. The
whole British army went into mourn
ing, and, after the close of the war,
his body was deposited near his mon
ument in Westminster Abbey. Even
in America, where the name Arnold
is a synonym of treason, the sad fate
of Maj. Andre excited, and still ex-
cites, universal commiseration.-Lon-
dN Spare Moments.