Show 2 f J T T T LAKE AKE TELEGRAM TUESDAY Y EVENING APRIl Young Houng Confederate Easily Fooled Yanks W ORLEANS ORLEA S La April 10 10 A smiling little negro girl with a n basket or of eggs ggs on her arm had little lit little little lit lit- tle trouble passing through the union lines about Baltimore and Washington ashington D D. D C C. two seventy times during the Civil war and of officers bf- bf ficera of ot tho the fe federal eral army often wondered wondered- how certain Information was as as passed d back and forth to and from th this the Confederate capital at Richmond Tho The neg ss' ss now 78 years ears of or age is hero from St. St Louis to attend the Confederate Veterans' Veterans reunion She She Is Major J. J M. M Crowley who was as one of ot the personal person personal per per- son l couriers of Jefferson Davis president of they the tho Confederacy Major Crowleys Crowley's first assignment m nt was given him at Montgomery Ala when that city was the tho Confederate capital President Davis and his to o take a cabinet desired a a. courier taketa ta Montgomery to message from been Washington which since has s been e disclosed as a communication to o the British minister Mr Ir Davis vi put the of it UP to the cabinet to name the cOurIer and Major Cro Crowley the then only 16 bears jears old was given the job It was Vas easy to do dowhen when you knew v how Crowley said I 1 go into the tho woods and get walnut Juice which I would smear over oer my race face g n r Then I would dress as a negro gro gIrland gIrl gin ginand arm and carry a basket of o of ot eggs g on r I my M Major jor Crowley finally was was was' c captured captured cap cap- p- p near Alexandria Ya VA a. a while while In disguise and was sent sentenced to be e shot as a spy Several Several Women 4 touched by his bo boyishness i ed In his behalf with Secretary o of oC War Var Stanton tho the sentence was commuted commute and he was sent to a aprison aprison aprison prison camp at Columbus O. O |