The Democrat of
yesterday contains a ‘cock and bull story’ about J. H. Reed, formerly
bridge-tender here. It maintains that a
man recently executed as a spy at Richmond, Va., under the name of Timothy
Webster, was none other than the identical J. H. Reed, who so suspiciously
disappeared from this city about a year and a half ago. Our neighbor’s sensational story sounds very
much like some of the telegraph dispatches we occasionally received, and
presume is quite as true.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 6, 1862, p. 1
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