Skip to main content

The Record Newspaper 29 April 1899

Page 1

ii

S T O iry.

neither

of

o u

How

us

GRAIN

was

Has

Hanged. ARMY

SURGEON'S

into

CASH

of

the

stewards,

this

motley

RICHD.

one

uniform

become

attached to of his devotion

because

front,

arid

to

Mosby in

rear,

while

and

vaga either

the

on

dash

.

foe. a

lawless

surprising

murders

were

guerrillas

caught

of things

state

that

and

prowling

lines were liable Union anoose, and while, snared Federals by suffered

a

like

to

Assurance

Life

Equitable the

United

FINANCIAL

Assets Surplus life

other

-

liabilities the world.

over

office

in

A

Large

POSITION

had leave

Londoun for

the

the

voice

instant

I

Valley.

-"

un-

all

As

did while Pethemine, first meeting and then turned tent.

I

started,

major

for

short,

stopped appeared,

the

within

his

eyes'

instant

revcla-

sudden

stood

; speechless on to the packet lying then, pointing methe I said to Petherjngton, cot, I left ; , pocket-case chanically my and corne Then, it, bring along." for I inade straight turning abruptly,

tion,

on

every

Surplus

the of

is

The to

the

business

of the

is

Society

of

-

1897.)

an

valuation

than

larger

Best Test of Strength Future Bonuses.

conducted

the

on

Plan

Mutual

own my shoulder

£10,508,995

-

that

of any

I

J

all

Surplus

absence,

belongs

ate."

PERTH

G.

F.R.G.S,

H.

Johnston,

BRANCH: Edward

Chairman;

M.L.A.,

Manager.

Special

T. Hooley, S.

Representative,

J.

W.

A.

TATTERS (C/o

107

MONSTER

one

Perth.

VIEW

ADELAIDE MAY

HANDICAP,

CUP, 10,000 3,000 HANDICAP,

BIRTHDAY

CUP,

V.R.C.

GRAND

V-.R.C.

GRAND

25,000

at

5,000 at

5,

May

5,

run

Adelaide,

at

5,

run

.Helena

Vale,

at

5,

run

Perth,

24th

10th,

May May.

NA

1'IONAL 10,000 at 5, run HURDLES, Fleuiiiigton, NATIONAL STEEPLE, 5,000 at 5, run Flemington; OOOLGARDIE at run CUP, 10,000 5, Coolgardie, August. KALGOORLIE CUP, 10,000 at 5, run Kalgoorlie. August. MENZIES CUP, 10,000 at 5, run Menzies, August. CAULFIELD at October.. run Oaulfield, CUP, 25,000 5, MELBOURNE CUP, 5, OOO.at 5, run 7th November. Flemington,; PERTH run at at Perth, CUP, 50,000 5, January 1st, 1900.

Bank

Reference,

of New

July 8th. July 15th.

&

OPTICiANS

Sick

for

Sight-Testing

DRAKE and

Ironmongers &

BUILDERS'

&

GENERAL

Importers,

"

"

STTJEBS, Hay

BRASS

IRONMONGERY,.

National Library of Australia

ROLLED

Agents

for

Merryweather

John &

Dan

Sons',

STEEL

ks

& London.

TUBES

GIRDERS

Son,

(All

I

the

to

over

motioned

hangman

1

to

mutely

and

is

theyre

enemies!" is

lie

a

man

your that

war

in

"But,"

spy

can

stripling,

so

always?

Who

innocent

for

a

of

heart, rejoined mere be, that and outspoken

he

frank would an

your man dangerous

most

select

such

an

secret

important

?"

re heart quickly my.,e,ager these membered In the tent points with the major the boy was speaking a of a leave that leave of absence is, from Now Winchester was a duty. :

&

PLUMBERS

FITTTNGS,

J

Sizes),

Alston's .

For, uniform,

And

Perth.

Street,

Melbourne; Ltd., Fire Brigade Appliances.

I

as

taken

wearing.our

lines,

hand him and faint,

service

FITTINGS &

horror

with

situation.

GALVANISED

REQUISITES,

we

saluted

our

spy,

Perth.

351

the

he was, to stay where Petherington inner tent for a and staggered to my of heart struggle against head. "Here is said head, order," your

KNAPP,

Arcade,

sank

heart

communicating caught secretly a from the enemy, my prisoner under martial law, was, poor orderly was doom the a convicted spy, whose who had already and I, gallows, to love the engaging lad, was grown

all

8 Royal

this

suspicion,

John Pethering

with

SPECTACLEMAKERS,

AND

on

and

self.

the entered the tent, major and then stared, open-eyed, behind. over my shoulder Thinking 1 dressed of this, however, nothing, tae wound and started away.

in

within

fate.

CLARKE

re

rolls.

My

valley-roveis

was

been

was

to

Free

up

picked had

word

to the which regiment to claimed Petherington that there. was no such name

realized

that

reprisal,

for

stragglers

ton.

Wales.

South

notifying concerned in the service on

that,

regiments

arrest for guard," aforesaid, self-styled

1899.

13th,'

message Win

at

feared that the accordingly question might be a Confed erate spy, caught masquerading as a directed Union and so I was soldier, to the to turn over commander of the

29th.

Vale, April 1899.'

Immedi

"

John

It

LIST: Helena

run

my short

from

turned belong on the

PRIZE

on

a

director

medical

the detail, of the hospital, in Winchester,

man

SWAN

it,

of

Chenhall.

ALL'S

Barrack-st.,

the

chester, saying the different

M.L.A.

Esq;,

CHARLES).

J.

my were

my

during marked I read

letter

a

Opening

I

Esq.,

found

I

tent,

my

:

Policy-holders.

Forrest,

at

delivered

table,

;

if

see

.

from A.

to

Arrived

and

over glancing Petherington

quarters,

following.

the within short shrift in

here

reddened furiously, deathly pale. Confounded by the

Society

31st,

Surplus standard

.Guarantee

teenth. ed men

As

I

this

at

so

States.

(December

£49,349,231

-

it

the of the nine evening All that day trains of wound the had been into pouring the and now, late among hospital, came a captured Confederate arrivals, some from staff, general's major, in the arm. wounded This slightly was terit assigned a small by patient and the ward himself, surgeons being to attend 1 went him, myself busy, as followed, always, by iriy orderly, as he called him John Petherington, It

to the

expecteuly,

l'r.aTH.

.

and

maraudings

frequent,

S I'liEiiiT,

the

with

ing partisan troops bush-whackers skulking bonds preyed independently

promptly

gone

see

But for

'

The

had

;

such

has

he

& Co.,

j

young of a

It was a terrible time in the Shen The invading of andoah army Valley. of the North waged avowedly a war while for the South there desolation, not soldiery,, fought only the regular but also bands of guerrillas, actively of the valley. aided by the inhabitants was it Sheridan, ad On the one side, with the sword and firebrand vancing an on the with other, eager Early,

not

you ?"

now

'

the

regiment,

W1L..IAM

of

In

Mosby is

;

TO

ington,

to

particu attracted by his frank and larly him face, and I had made intelligent He had, indeed, given my orderly. a confused account of how he but came to be absent from his regiment, at the on the then and even front, first pressed for a day had anxiously short leave of absence— necessarily but I had refused at that busy time not these two connected suspicious in my mind, and had circumstances

is

APPLY

PURSER

128

me

army

TERMS.

PARTICULARS

You

of stray in the

crowd in

stripling

Pennsvlvania

in

eh?"

where

"

.

there etc. me by the provost guard a lot soldiers straggling caught streets of Winchester.

quickly youngster duty.

Then

days,

the second voice, No, sir," replied the voice of my orderly, Petherington, who evidently had lagged behind when " but probably I left the tent no, sir,

hospital nurses, cooks, orderlies, turned had been over

a

:

"Three don't know

.

force

working

Of

OR

said

drill

army

fellow,

other

any Australasia.

FURTHER

better

gives

than

in

FOR

DRILL,

and

sale

largest satisfaction

STORY.

I was a victory young the Union I on side. surgeon the finished before, had, only night the establishment of a large hasty on the outskirts field of Win hospital Two' had been chester. days only me and the for the task, for granted rout

FERTILISER

the

On the 19th of October, 1864—the memorable day of the battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, riding rapidly to the turned from Winchester front, ;

AND

I feet I Before had gone twenty remembered that I had left my pocket on case of instruments the major's reached cot. I Retracing my steps, the doorway of the tent, when I heard in earnest, low conver voices within the major's, The first sation. voice,

FAVOURITE"

AN"

"FARMERS'

THE

Windmill.

Telephone

358.

hostile

town,

where

secret

that

Mosby's

j !

and

went

at

pleasure,

if

was

followers, in any

an

open came.

simple

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page22981308


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook