BELLE BOYD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1877, 11 April 1889, Page 3

BELLE BOYD.

A report has just been published of the celebrated Bede Boyd having hpen assassinated. This was tho girl who became famous as a rebel spy in the Southern army, and galloped by night to Stonewall Jackson to tell him what she know of the Federal movements. On cne particularly dnring expedition she was ciught and sent a prisoner to Washington, where she captivated the Northerners quite as much as she had done the Southerners. A romantic beauty who rides mustangs and draws six-sbooters from her belt is always fascinating. It turns out that the who met with death on the Choctaw side of Enfanta was not Belle Bojd, who still lives in Pennsylvania, but a I certain marauding woman named Belle ! Starr. Her husband, with ftn IndiaD contingent, is on the track of the mar-: derers, who probably by this time will be struDg up to the branch of a maple tree and riddled with bullets by the command of the Hod. Judge Lynch. There was some romance about this Belle Starr, for she was the only girl who survived from the wreck of the 'steamer Morning Star, which foundered in the Gulf of Mexico somo twenty years ago on a voyage to New Orleans. Ihe real Belle Boyd, who was lately used as a heroine in one of Diou Boucicauli's dramas, is still alive.' She ran the blockade with despatches in May, 1864, was captured, and finally exiled by Lincoln. After marrying an American naval lieutenant atS f .J«mes' Church, Picadilly, she joined WVter Montgomery at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, and made her debut as an actres?. She relumed after the amnesty to New York, and played in America, where she married again (divorces are nearly as frequent in America as marriages), and then retired to California on the failure of her health. Since that time she has passed her life in divorces Bnd re-marriages, and is as well known n 3 Buffalo Bill.—St. James' Gazette.