The Portland daily press., 1895-05-11

if dazed, the colonel asked: "Mr. Dun
lap what have you to say? Are you an
officer in the United States army, as
you represented"
81 am not. am lieutenant in the
Confederate army" replied Dunlap.
Emboldened by his ability to say thus
much without breaking down, he con-
| tinued, with an oratorioal manner: 81
am patriot and gentleman. l risked
all for my country, but am not spy. !"
'You look upon the Union soldiers
as your enemies?" said Colonel Baird.
II do, replied Dunlap.
"Yet you voluntarily assumed the
uniform of a Union officer, deliberately
forged or connived at the forging of pa
pers that would bear out the deceit and
then came into this camp, claiming to
be a friend. Is not this true?''
| cit is.
what was your purpose?"
Before Dunlap could reply to Colonel
Baird's question Anton interrupted:
"My assistant knows nothing about
my purpose in coming here Whatever
guilt there may be in the offense attaches
to me. He regarded the enterprise as
romantic affair, a masquerade that
meant no injury to the enemy nor help
to his friends. -
"How old are you, Mr.. Dunlap"
asked Baird.
Twenty -four"
"You arc an officer in Bragg army"
81 am
"And you consider yourself entirely
responsible for all your own acts?''
81 do.'
81 believe that is all. Does any other
member Of the court wish to examine
the prisoner"
! Colonel Baird looked about the table,
and the officers Of the court shook their
heads and compressed their lips. Anton
and Dunlap were taken into an adjoin-
ing room, and Colonel Baird said to the
court:
Gentlemen, the prisoners are
charged with being spies. You have
heard their confessions and the evidence
of Lieutenant Wharton as we'll as the
dispatches from headquarters. How say
you-guilty as charged or not guilty?"
AS if spoken by one man, the response
was, Guilty as charged .
lis there any exception to the find
ing?" asked Baird.
There was none. The verdict having
been given, the penalty followed as q
matter of course. Death, Immediate
death by hanging, has long been the rec
ognized method of disposing of con-
victed spy in war times, yet Colonel
Baird shuddered as he contemplated the
duty thus forced upon him.
81 will telegraph to headquarters for
instructions, he said. meanwhile it
might be we'll to communicate the find
! ings to the prisoners and to ascertain, if
possible, their motive in entering our
lines.
Colonel Baird at once telegraphed
General Garfield:
| The prisoners Anton and Dunlap, have con-
fessed that one is colonel and the other a
lieutenant in the rebel army. What shall do
with them?
To this came the responses:
Take the confessions in writing and hang
| them forthwith
Colonel Watkins and Captain Singer
Ito the journal of the latter l am in
aebted for many Of the details-with
other members of the court, visited the
prisoners. The colonel told them of the
findings and left them to infer the re-
suit.
That Anton, to continue his assumed
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present condition showed, but the strain
Of the past few hours had told on him
terribly, and anxiety for his young COM
panlon, even more than fear for him
self, made him intensely nervous and
almost hysterical
Tersely, yet without bluntness, for
Colonel Watkins was gentleman to tho
core, the prisoners were told of the find
ings OF the court As trained soldier,
entirely familiar with military usage in
such matters, Anton had nothing else
TO expect. Yet he affected to believe
that he was misjudged. and without
an argument to sustain the assertion he
repeated:
1--WE are not spies! On my honor as
a soldier, we are not spies''
| "Iwould be unjust to you and to n.y.
self, " said Colonel Watkins, "if held
out any hope. The findings of the court,
based on your own confessions, arc
known by this time at headquarters,
and there can be but one response. That
you are both we'll bred gentlemen is evil
dent, and this fact but intensifes the
wonder why such men should volunta-
rily place themselves in such position,
particularly when the chances of detec-
ton were so great
1--WE did not expect to find any off
GERS Of the old army here, said Anton.
"You came from General Forrest?''
"From his camp, yes, but we do not
belong to his command, nor was it our
| purpose to obtain information for his
use. -
"What command were you attached
tor
"Bragg's."
"And your position?"
II am attached to Bragg's staff as