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ourney to Camp Lee, and nearly another hour in preparations for the execution. The parting on the seaffold had hardly reached the ground before Webster threw down his hat, (the signal agreed on) and the drop fell, precipitating the prisoner full four feet and the chair on which he was sitting fell to the ground. The body swayed around three times as the rape unwound and then hung motionless. In one minute and a half the soul of the condemned had fled. Those who were in the immediate vicinity of the gallows say that the prisoner died bravely. Just one year ago yesterday to a day Timothy Webster, a spy, was hanged at Camp Lee, and on the identical spot on which Capt. A. C. Webster expiated his crime. The parties were in no wise related, though both were Kentuckians. It is now known that the name Webster assumed by the spy was not his true one, up to yesterday it was currently reported that Capt. A. C. Webster was a son of old John Brown, which, of course, was not true.