Interesting Visit

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Here is a new Problem for us to cope with.

Headley may be a LIAR. I will always question anything he says and look for GOOD information elsewhere, ( even if I am wrong.)

We have lots of text describing the activities of "the Kentucky woman who attended to the Raiders during their imprisonment" Sometimes she is identified as Sarah, and sometimes as Mrs. Higbee.

Mrs Mary Belle Shanks Miller Higbee was the wife of C, H, Higbee, one of the Raiders who was wounded badly in the St. Albans raid.
It is said that she came up from Kentucky to attend to her husband.
She attended to him daily and most likely helped others at he same time. She was actually a "24 year old Kentucky widow" and thus
earned a spot for her picture in Headley's book.

BUT - Bennett Young, the Commander of the Raiders reports that Higbee was "Shot through and through and could not stay in the saddle" so, "he was left in St. Albans, in the care of an unidentified woman --- who was well paid, (most likely with money stolen from the St. Albans Banks.) Higbee was later smuggled into Canada and left with Dr. Montross Pullen at the St. John Baptiste Society.

He recovered and returned to Kentucky - eventually moved to Texas and became very wealthy as President of a Bank.

From this report - he never was in the jail with the rest. Mrs Higbee never went to Canada.

As if that is not enough to show that Headley was "off key", I also read that he found the picture of "The Kentucky Widow" in Kentucky. and thus the Montreal Police had nothing to do with the Availability of the Picture.

Was this the fault of Headley? or was it an effort to sell more books?
(was it bad info fed to him, or did he garnish a dull story?)
A life-long truth, just went down the drain.