The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02

tho Turks and Saracens against whom ne
had fought: his tremendous name was
employed by the Syrian mothers to silence i
their Infants and IL Horse suddenly
started from his way. his rider was wont
TO cxclaim: .Dost thou fear King Richard
Is In that bush?' y
Mosby Man Did Not Squeal.
Another. OF these writer's speaks OF
having captured my auartermaster at
Smithfeld in tho Shenandoah Valley, and
says: 1--WE (Fourtecnth Pennsylvnna)
made him squcal, anu then let him 80
with a pronlsc."T31f ono of my men mad
treated a prisoner in that way no would
have kept It a secret. My quartermastcr
was once captured by that regiment, but
not in the Shenandoah Valley; no never
went there Nor was be released on n
promise, but at the point Of pistol
Further on shall have more to say
about his capture and rccapture. i am
SURPRISED that any OF the Fourteenth.
Pennsylvania, Cavalry should allude to IT..
To them 1t ought to be n lnournful mem-
ory. like Adams recollection of his fall.
Another one says that any man guilty,
Of the acts with which am charged
would deny It.. l say. so, too: my plea OF
not guilty simply puts the burden OF
proof on my accusers. There is no evil.
dence produced against me but camp
yarns lnaI4 EWOulu IOl pS ttdllilSoi1iS VII
the trial OF dog for killing a sheep.
CLAIM, no credit for not being cruel to
prisoners; would rs soon Claim credit
d for not being burglar. "a Captain Hus-
ted says in an interview that in tho sum-
mer OF II 1854, at or earS-Bunker Fill,
which is on the pike leading from Mar
tinsburg to Winchester, I captured and
shot one Private Stone. of the Fourteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was not q
!, lhns,n a,tSy
who was witness to the deed. It Is
mere rumor. II 1t were necessary,
could easily prove an alibi. for at that
time T was nowhere near there. Captain
Hustled. when he first heard the story
believed 1t. because he wanted to believe
1T. He has told 1t SO often that tits a
part of his religious creed. and he 30
peats it now as a child does his nursery
rhyme: This is the maiden all forlorn,
that MIXED the COW with the crumplcd
horn, AS a lawyer, i am sure you
would give Judgment against him on a.
demurrer to Hvidence. His statement is
that some Union soldiers found a cap
at n woman's house In the neighborhood
OF Bunker. Hill. "They asked the woman
az the house, he says, where this cap
came from. At first she refused to tell.
but when they scared her into telling
she told them that the Union soldier who
wore the cap was one of the men cap
tured by Mostly. and that Mosby shot
him. The inquiry is naturally suggested
why I shot one and not all. Now. IL any
woman ever said this she only spoke
from rumor, or from terror to save her
own life. There was not a woman within
ten miles OF the place who knew me by
sight The company in which was a
private Joined Stuart's cavalry regiment
at Bunker Hill in July, 1861. My home
was a hundred miles away. ] had never
been there before. In a few days we
marched to Join Beauregard at Manassas
+ have never been Etnere sncc" There
we're many Northern cavalry regiments
that cameEto Virginia early in the war
that knew as much about the country
as did,
Woman Probably a Myth.
The fact of stones cap being found in
a country where war was raging is no
presumption that the killing was not a
legitimate act OF war. Private Stone
came to the Shenandoah Valley to Kill
somebody, and got killed. That is all
there rs to 1t. Captain Hustled does not
say from whom and where he heard this
report about Stone; nor does he give the
name OF the woman who, he says, was
| frightened into telling the story. have
| no doubt that the woman Is as much of a
MYTH as the story. Nor can believe that
nny Union soldier treated a defenscless
woman ms brutaly as Captain Hustled
saws they treated this woman. II she
| had confessed under threats that she killed
stone. the confession so txtorted would not
be cridence against her If her own tes-
| ,Imony under torture would not be adj
missihle against herself a fortiori i.
would not be against me. The world has
not condemned "the starry Calico" for
recanting his theory of the revolution OF
the earth 10 save himself from being
| roasted alive. one of these letter writer's
! saws. "The bows told us Bill and four
| others started out 10 forage near Bunker
I'M Thc other four cot away. but Bill
vas killed. y uo does not say that lie
ever heard that Bill was captured and
| tbcn killed. captain Hustled seems 10 be
,hc only ono who ever heard ii. Another
snvs tIIat mn old negro man told rim
| thni Moshv,s mon KILLED stone Well
s,Innosc thcv did. stone was trying 10
vi, Mosby,s men CuptaIn Hustled SAWS
! ,bnt he woman wl,o is renorted 10 have
inventc1 thIs f,hlo vas southern 40.
nm in sentiment II any such woma,
nwer Iivad ,no Inference srnn, hcr ,ocaliiv
1. ine, thn ,o,.nrsa p,,nLe,IIi,I 10 uo.,