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Alexander 'Sandy' Keith, Jr. (1827–1875) was a criminal and Confederate secret agent from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He used a time bomb to destroy the ship ''Mosel'' so he could collect the insurance money. ==Life and career== Keith was born in 1827 in Caithness, Scotland, immigrating to Halifax when he was a small boy. The nephew of Alexander Keith, founder of the Alexander Keith's brewery, Keith worked for a time as a clerk in his uncle's brewery. Keith became a secret agent for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, acting mostly as a blockade runner and courier. Keith assisted in helping Confederate sympathisers escape justice in the Chesapeake Affair. He was also involved with Luke Blackburn in an infamous plot to send clothes infected with yellow fever to northern cities in the United States.〔American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting, by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard - Trials - 1917, p. 72〕 In 1865, he swindled his associates-in-crime and fled to St. Louis, Missouri, settling finally on the prairie. There, he married Cecelia Paris, a milliner's daughter from St. Louis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Keith, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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