The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-11-02
ANDRES EXECUTION.
The Story of His Death%:as Told b,
h English To-day.

The Story OF His Deathtas Told By
the English To-day.
There are few monuments in West
minister Abbey which have attracted
more attention than that which CON-
memorates the sad fate of Mai. Andre.
Perhaps no event Of the American rev
olution made more aching hearts on
both sides of hhe Atlantic. Great
Britain lost two armies, and thous-
ands Of her brave soldiers We're slain
upon the field of battle, but it may he
doubted If so many tears were shed
for them all Is for the young soldier
who died upon the gallows.
John Andre was born in London, the
son of a Geaevese merchant, in 1851.
He was sent to Geneva to he edu-
Gated, but returned to London at the
age Of eighteen, and, his talents 'hav-
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 ill.,
duced to engage in trade. But he was
ambitious, and at the age of twenty
entered the army. At the outbreak Of
tile 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 SOC 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 its 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
sevels 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
spand@N ATfth him, and was the
agent through whom the British gen.
era. haS10 jped, under promise OF .
largeAH&ard, for the surrender at
WestvPoint, the key Of the highlands
of the River .Hudson.
Andre @yisitad ARNOLD within the
Americas Hines to carry out this
|treachesyi;shs was captured 0As his re-
turn BY three American farmers. who
refused his .bribes; the papers pro-
claiming Arnold. treason We're found
upon him, and by his own 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
adjutant, 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-nlnth year,
after q 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. ?, 1870.
II his life had been undistinguished
he died with heroic f1rmness. 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-
don Suoro. MOmontS.