Mobile Register

June 22, 1861

Page 2

 

            HAGERSTOWN, June 18—I learn from Harper’s Ferry that Alfred Bell, Theodore Boosen, and John Smith, members of the Body Guard, were hung yesterday for attempted desertion.  Christian Will, the father of the young man reported to have been hung yesterday, was shot at Martinsburg this morning whilst trying to escape.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]