New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-04
THE STORY OF A SPY.
HOW THE MISSING MANS DEATH WAS PROVED
THIRTY-FoUR YEARS AFTER HE WAS SHOT

HOW THE MISSING MANS DEATH WAS PROVED
THIRTY-FoUR YEARS AFTER HE WAS SHOT.
From The Chicago Times-Herald
Here is short story that 1t has taken history
thirty-six years TO write.
At the beginning Of the great Civil War. in 1851.
s1e N hbehnes n snn D He Owned
farm Of 2S1 acres near that place, and had 5000
Union man. and the southerners burned his cotton
and made 1t impossible for him to live among
family FAMILY after hiding several yer days in the woods
made their way northward and went 10 their OLD
In September. 1862. Kenney Joined the command
of General James S. Negley at Pttsburg: and en-
Vile. and thence entered the Confederate lines
He was recognized and betrayed by one or MS oia
i0 From this point Samuel w Kenney disappeared
believed that he had been executed, but proof OF
that fact was unobtanable. In 1861 Mrs; Kenney
,y. she has resided ever since Two sons, now
grown to sturdy manhood, live in this city-Alex..
ander AT No 63S Monroe-st, and john at NO 3.fN
twenty years ago they made an attempt to OBJ
the Department records at Washington ala not
that the missing spy OF 1852 had been S,I d TegH
Quite recently. however, Congressman Woodman.
spy named Kenney at Tullahoma, Tenn February
3D. 1865 Ths To s b ~aS ersnted 10 the aged widow
~ LAST week Alexander Kcnney and his brother
Jobn went TO tennessee 10 discover. If possible any
further facts about the fate Of their father, They
ceved by the town officials. II was suggested by
The Mayor that aged woman who had lived IN
the place ever since the war might know something
about the death of the Northern spy, and she was
SThere were only four men killed in Tullahoma
during the war" she said positively Three OF
them were Confederates. and they were buried In
the town cemetery The other one was spy. who
had been caught by Braggs men ! saw them take
saw him sitting on a coffin They drove away 'yith
him. and heard that he had been nhnseo' Dut
can you remember the name Of that spyf" asked
one OF the Chcagoans. 49, n,
''Yes." she replied slowly. mis- name was Ken
But this seemed 10 be as far as the search could
be carried. There were no town records wnieh
tional facts could be learned. Returning 10 the
railway station the two Chicagoans fell into conyer
| and incidentally mentioned their mission while
| waiting for train. d..
| guess | can help you some saw your lathei
| hanged / was only twelve years old then, and the
| sight was stamped upon my mind indehhly ior
| buried on my fathers farm. and for many year.
| afterward used 10 shudder and run as fast as
through the little town and just outside the sub
.'They hanged your father 10 that sycamore tree
| there by the spring. said the guide; His body
was buried about halfway up that nil over there
and the grave wasn't marked. You'll never find 1,
put the two Chlcagoans went over every foot OF
nnrt OF the bank and undermined the hill so that
part OF the ragged edge gave way beneath the feet
The bank the two lower leg bones of a skeleton;
The 10y who disappeared thirtyfour years ago had
0e The remains brought e Ghleaso and yiI be