The American patriot Nathan Hale was caught 248 years ago this weekend for spying against the British on Long Island — and hanged for treason. Hale, just 21 years old, had been in the Huntington ...

Nathan Hale, to whom a statue will in all probability be erected on the Yale campus before the bi-centennial year, 1901, left few memorials of his stay in New Haven while a student at the college.