A SPANISH SPY.
One of the Spanish spies captured by the Americans hanged himself in gaol with a silk handkerchief. He appears to have become a spy rather through pique than for profit. His name was Downing, and he was at one time on the Brooklyn, but was discharged for disloyalty, and because he could not get along with his comrades. Animated by revenge he offered his services to Spain, and was traced by officers of the United States Secret Service to Toronto, where he was furnishing Senor Polo, the late consul, with information. Believing that he would be shot as a spy, he preferred to cheat his enemies by premature suicide, for the Crown law authorities were at the time in a characteristic state of uncertainty as to whether he should be tried by a civil or a military tribunal.
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9111, 4 July 1898, Page 2
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141A SPANISH SPY. Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9111, 4 July 1898, Page 2
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