them must have known that this was some one
expecting a boat, and presumably a boat from the
opposite shore. At all events, it is stated that
Hale, seeing his mistake when several marines
presented their guns, turned to fly, stopping only
when told by the officer to stand or be shot. These
events are said to have taken place at Huntington,
Long Island, about forty miles from New York.
But more than a century after Hale's death a
British Orderly Book was found, containing the
statement, dated September 22d, 1776, that follows:

[illustration: handwritten note.??]

This, with other knowledge obtained about the
position of the ship by whose crew he was said to
have been taken, gives reason for believing that

[1] A spy fm the Enemy (by his own full Confession) Apprehended
Last night, was this day Executed at n o'clock in front
of the Artilery Park.

From an Orderly Book of the British Guard. Reproduced
from the original in possession of the New York Historical
Society.

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