Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-24
SPIES AND THEIR MOTIVES.
Extremes Of Inspiring Patriotism and
60rdid TreaChery.

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and has done her work only too well. AT
first she was always to be found at the
dock on steamer days mingling with the
crowd, her ears and eyes open for all she
could see and hear. AS a result Weyler S
Cuban circles.
Then she was sent to ply her vocation in
Pinar del Rio amid all the horrors OF war.
| There she first fell under suspicion by the
countrymen whom she was selling into
the hands of the enemy. Caught while
communicating with Spanish officer, she
was arrested by the insurgents. Brought
before Maceo, she explained that she was
the daughter of Felix Diaz and had come
into the lines only to see her father and
brothers. She claimed that the Spanish
officer who was talking to her was en-
deavoring to bride her to betray her
friends. On this testimony he was shot,
no one believing his declaration to the
contrary.
She witnessed the execution of her Span
fish friend without q tremor and followed
her father and brothers into camp, where
she made herself familiar with the plans
of the insurgents When night came, she
escaped to the Spanish lines and gave such
information that the Cubans were sur
prised in the early dawn and defeated aft
err severe fight. During the battle Nina
escaped to Havana disguised as boy.
The most unprincipled act of her treach-
Try was when she betrayed her own moth
n into the hands of the Spanish and saw
hcr sent TO the convict prison. She and
Fort Cabanas. She effected an escape and
was sent to New York, but the Cubans in
that city heard of her arrival, and she ac-
complished but little. Since her return to
Havana she has not been able to do much
mischief as, being unmasked, none of the
patriots trusts her, and her sources of in
formation are cut off,
Spanish Spies In America.
! The secret service of the United States
! Is making systematic search for Spanish
kpicS who are understood TO be at work
under the directions of certain people con
nrcted with the late Spanish embassy at
Washington. The first important arrest
made was that of George Downing, who
subsequently committed suicide The ee-
mcnt of love for Spanish maiden is the
! only redeeming feature of Downing 5
I most trcaCherOuS transactions. Downing
CHANGED to meet at one time young wom-
an who was employed as houscmaid at
/ the Spanish legation. She was so employed
! for some time while Senior Dupuy de LONE
! was minister and continued in service
when Senior Polo took charge. Persons
who had business at the legation some
! times saw her and describe her as rather
! tall, slim and having dark complexion.
| If the secret service officers know her name
or her whereabouts they refuse to make it
! public, and she is not likely to figure in
/ the trial Downing is known to have been
i infatuated with her and was permitted to
call upon her at the Spanish legation after
| he was discharged from the Brooklyn and
| came TO Washington. II was upon one of
/ these visits that in some manner Downing
/ met Lieutenant Carranza, the naval at
! tachc Of the legation. Carranza Was ap-
| rarcntly looking for some such person as
! Downing who readily fell in with the
! ~paniard 5 propositions and for money
agreed TO hetray his adopted country.
| There is every reason to believe that terms
were agreed upon and plans mapped out
! before the Spanish party left Washington
and that Downing was at work seeking
inside information in the interval between
! their departure and his strip to Toronto
| Downing came to the Brooklyn last De
! ccinb@r, when she lay in the navy yard at
/ Brooklyn, and said his residence was New
| York city. He is an Englishman by birth
and had done previous sea service on the
/ Peninsula * Oriental boats, and had
! also been steward on Il steam yacht owned
| by Phelps Carroll He had naturalization
| papers. He WAS accepted and served on
! board the Brooklyn until the third week
in April, when he was notified that he was
obnoxious to the men.
| He asked for his discharge, and when
| Paymastcr's Clerk Hancock handed it to
| him it was indorsed Not recommended
! for re-chlistmcnt as commissary" When
/ Downing saw this he few into a rage and
Threatened Mr.. Hancock. When he left
the ship, he declared that he would make
it hot for the entire navy" There WAS
something more than unsatisfactory serv-
ices in Downing's case which led up to his
discharge and it is suspected that even
when on the Brooklyn he was gathering
information. He asked frequent questions
about coal supplies and the destination of
! golfers engaged by the department.
Nathan Hale and Major Andre.
Two of the most famous spies in Ameri-
can history around whose heads hang u
halo Of glory are Nathan Hale and Major
Andre
Nathan Hale was a captain in knowl-
ton 5 regiment in the Continental army.
He accepted the perilous service of cxplor-
ing the British camp at Long Island I'M
der instructions from General Washing
ton, who was then retrcating to Harlem
heights. With the desired information
Hale was discovered before he reached the
American lines through the treachery of
Tory klnsman and was hanged the next
morning, Sept %, III, without trial and
with insult and cruelty. His last words
have become famous, q regret that have
only one life to give up i'll the service of
my country A bronze statue was erected
to his memory in City Hall park, New
York, in 1898
Major Andre, the other famous SOY,
stands as high in the history of the Eng
lish as Hale does in our own
Andre came to this country on the
breaking out of the Revolutionary war as
aid-de-camp to Sir Henry Clinton of the
British forces. He was aftcrward made
major and adjutant general. When Bcne-
dict Arnold made his proposition to the
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