Show spies i A USTIN ROE might justly be A called the paul revere of new york with tills this difference that instead of taking one wonderful ride roo roe took a hundred those are the words worda of morton Penny pennypacker pacher a new york historian who recently discovered in nn fin old chest in a home on long island some one hundred and fifty year old documents which told the hitherto un known story of spy system while the british occupied new york city during tile the revolution the man who collected in new york the information about the british plans was robert townsend the successor of nathan nale hale this information he passed along to austin roe who carried the messages from brooklyn to setauket L I 1 where they were handed banded over to abraham woodhull Wood huH woodhull then watched for a signal from a house fur far across the fields and tills oils signal announce announced that caleb brew ster had arrived with carry the across the sound to maj benjamin tallmadge who immediately wedin tely delivered it to washington austin roes greatest ride and one which was more remarkable re and infinitely more dangerous than paul revers bevers famous exploit was made to S save newport R I 1 from the british fifty five miles lie ho covered in record time almo on that occasion find and it gave to washington the information that british troops were embarking at W whitestone for newport and that admiral graves with eleven ships was already on the way to attack the french fleet of seven ships off the coast of rhode island receiving the nies message sage from townsend he sped across long island to reach woodhull while brester waited to carry the cessn message ge the information reached washington in time for him to put out tile the false information and see to it that british headquarters got it that he be was ing an immediate at 5 tack upon new york alarmed by this po possibility the british commander ordered the cip expedition edition against newport withdrawn and tills this was done before they had an opportunity to destroy the town ns as they had planned to do even more important in its results was another ride which roe made on this occasion he carried the message to major talmadge which determined him to have john And andeeson An deison eTson major andre of the british army recalled attar he was ft as well on his way to arnold old the traitor and to freedom ot this mr pennypacker says colonel Col trumbull bull Is quoted by L V P clover as saying buying that but for the capture of major andre the declaration of independence pen dence might have proved all abort ortive lva and the blood of S so 0 many of our country nun suad in vain VS 1131 1931 New antom |