The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-12-19
ANDRES
The story of His Death ms Told by
the English To-day.

The story II His Death ms Told by
the English To-day.
There are few monuments in West
minister Abbey which have attracted
more attention than that which COM
memorates the sad fate of Maj. Andre.
Perhaps no event of the American rev.
olution made more aching hearts on
both sides of khe Atlantic. Great
Britain lost two armies, and 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 1751.
He was sent to Geneva to be 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 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 soon his adjutant general.
Young, handsome. clever. full of taste
and gayety, al artist and a poet, ne
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 Mai. 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
snondepce with him, and a the
agent through whom the BRUSH gen
nral bargained, under promise of a
large reward. for the surrender at
West Point, the key of the highlands
OIL Tie IlNeE IluuSoh'
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. treason were FOUND
upon him, and by his OWE frank con
fession he was convicted as a spy ana
sentenced to be hanged. Arnold, by
the blunder of an American officer, got
warning and escaped OH board the
Vulture. Sir Henry Clinton, by the
most urgent representations to Gen
Washington, tried to save his favorlte
adiutant, but in vain. There was put
one way-the surrender OF Arnold, W
meet the fate decreed to Andre. Ihat
was impossible, and the young ad1u'
tant, then in his t~wenty-ninth year
after a vain appeal to washington
that he might die a soldiers death
was hanged on the west bank or inc
Hudson, almost in sight of the city
held by the British army, Oct. =, lioo
If his life had been undistingulsheo
he died with heroic firmness. Ihe
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. Ever
in America, where the name Arnolt
is a synonym Of treason, the sad fatt
Of Mai. Andre excited, and still ex
cites, universal commiseration.-Lon
dCa Spare Moments.