Alexander Keith Jr.
Scottish-born Canadian smuggler and mass murderer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexander 'Sandy' Keith Jr. (1827āDecember 18, 1875) was a Scottish-born Canadian smuggler and mass murderer. During the American Civil War, he was employed by the Confederate States of America as a spy, and after the war attempted to use a time bomb to destroy the merchant ship Mosel for insurance fraud in 1875, resulting in the deaths of 81 bystanders and his own suicide.