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SSlater · (This post was last modified: 05-15-2017 09:58 PM by SSlater.)

Why did the police have Sarah's picture? Sarah was a complete unknown in Canada. The Confederates didn't have a name. The Police never got her name. Yet, she visited the Raiders daily. She brought them food, She mailed their letters. She brought them Mail, etc.
Up to this time she never ran a "mission". She was not yet a spook. Her whole motivation was to get to Mama - in New York City.
I almost forgot -we are talking about the Police. Sarah had not committed a Crime, so she was not "investigated", but she needed to be Identified each day, by whoever was on duty, day or night, to be allowed to see the prisoners. They accomplished this with the Photo.
I have found that she used her name only once - when she signed the Register at the St. Lawrence Hall. She signed Nettie S. Slater, at
3 AM in April 1865. Another time she used her Mother's name.
But the Cops didn't know that, nor did the Confederates. It wasn't until Cameron spilled the Beans, at the Raiders trial.
I could write all week with info like this. Is it of interest? This activity almost started a war between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. was desperate to prevent the "papers" from getting to Canada. The Confederates sent about 10 different people to Richmond. Each went by a separate route, at a different time etc. etc. Only 3 made it to Richmond. One was captured in Ohio, and "convicted", but Lincoln let him off with imprisonment for the duration. (That turned out to be 2 months +/-.) I wonder if the U.S. ever kept a record of what they did with the rest?

Correction. That might have been March 1865 - Iforget.

(05-15-2017 09:37 PM)SSlater Wrote: Why did the police have Sarah's picture? Sarah was a complete unknown in Canada. The Confederates didn't have a name. The Police never got her name. Yet, she visited the Raiders daily. She brought them food, She mailed their letters. She brought them Mail, etc.
Up to this time she never ran a "mission". She was not yet a spook. Her whole motivation was to get to Mama - in New York City.
I almost forgot -we are talking about the Police. Sarah had not committed a Crime, so she was not "investigated", but she needed to be Identified each day, by whoever was on duty, day or night, to be allowed to see the prisoners. They accomplished this with the Photo.
I have found that she used her name only once - when she signed the Register at the St. Lawrence Hall. She signed Nettie S. Slater, at
3 AM in April 1865. Another time she used her Mother's name.
But the Cops didn't know that, nor did the Confederates. It wasn't until Cameron spilled the Beans, at the Raiders trial.
I could write all week with info like this. Is it of interest? This activity almost started a war between the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. was desperate to prevent the "papers" from getting to Canada. The Confederates sent about 10 different people to Richmond. Each went by a separate route, at a different time etc. etc. Only 3 made it to Richmond. One was captured in Ohio, and "convicted", but Lincoln let him off with imprisonment for the duration. (That turned out to be 2 months +/-.) I wonder if the U.S. ever kept a record of what they did with the rest?

Correction. That might have been March 1865 - Iforget.

More: When the book was published in 1905. Sarah was in Poughkeepsie-most of the time as Sarah Long.
more: That picture HAS to be the Lady who took care of the Raiders. or the Raiders would not have allowed the Picture to be published and identified as the woman who went Richmond at her own cost - to save their lives. She meant too much to them. By then they knew that Cameron gave them her name.