The Ghost of Major André

Everyone in Sleepy Hollow is talking about the Ghost of Major André—but who is he?

John
André was a British officer and a spy during the American
Revolution, best known for helping the arch-traitor Benedict Arnold
betrayWest Point. He was captured near Tarrytown, New York, and later
tried, hanged as a spy, and buried in Tappan, New York, near the New
Jersey border.

Why
his spirit haunts the tree where he was captured (Tarrytown), and not
the grave where his body lies (Tappan), is a secre...