xt7qjq0stw34_5646 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Autograph album, mostly disbound text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Autograph album, mostly disbound 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_66/Folder_1/Multipage29475.pdf 1843-[1894], undated 1894 1843-[1894], undated 
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 THE? LATE: MAJOR LE; GABON,
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One of the lllC‘3t remarkable men of modern times
died in London on Sunday last—Thomas \Villinm
Beach, or, to give him the name by which he was l est ,
known, BIzijor Le Caron, perhaps the most daring i
spy that ever lived. Major Le Caron was a native of
Colcheater, his father being a mtecollector of that
town. After the beginning of the Civil \Var in
America he left Pane, whither he had gone at the
age of nineteen, and entered the United States army
as a private. Here he tool; the nnnieof HenriLeCaron,

Senior Guardian of “Catnip 463” In the date
of l'llin/iis. A sltirziiishing fullll Wu: estab-
lished, with Breslin, Dewy, Carrol, l'i")'lt()lll‘},
O’Doiiovnn llossn, Austin l‘oi'd‘ Lu'oy, and 'l‘. l“.
Burke {IS truztcea, the fund being devoted to striking
at the British enemy when and where opportunity
presented itself. All their plota, lioWevor, were
frustrated through Lo Caron. Twenty-five years in
all were spent by him as a- spy—n perilous ordeal,
through which hepasszid with wonderful pluck and
success. His evidence before the Special Commission
was the sensation. of the inquiry, and will long he
remembered for its astounding revelations of the
inner workings of the l.‘cnians.

and his conduct during' the many hard~fought fights in 1

which hetook part won for him the rank of major. The
year before the termination of tho great strt‘iggle
between North and South )[zijor Lo Caron made the
acquaintance of one Captain, afterwards General,
O’Neil, who, when the war was over, spoke to him
about a projected invasion of Canmlzt. He joined the
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finite-Le Caron. (Sketched from Life during the Parnell
Commission.)

organiser 7" of that body, lining: commissioned with
the rank of major in the Trish Republican Army. ll»:
made the bulk of the arrangements in 18% for the
Fenian raid. or. to use its alternative name, the Riel
rebellion in'Omntda. in l870. lie entered the Iranian
body for the express purpose of betraying it .to'
the h-itisli ti-overnment, the arrangements With
which were made by his father through one
of the then members for. his native place.
Le Caron accepted a coniniissmn from. the Home
Secretary to procure and supply further information.
llisz motive, as he states iii‘his book, tyne purely
patriotiC. the payment received from the (rovermncnt
leintr for several years together less than tlievexpenses
to which he was put in his work as secret informer.
He claims to have been the means by which ’the
tJanadien rebellion ended in a dismal fiaeco. lhe
successive Uovernmentsz, too, were kept in know-
Mitre of the schemes and plots of? the INS”
lirotherhoods rind Clans. The Major became

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