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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Mr. Cameron Arrested

PHILADELPHIA, April 16. – Hon. Simon Cameron was arrested last evening, on the suit of Pierce Butler, on the charge of false imprisonment in August last, while he (Cameron) was Secretary of War. The writ is returnable to the Supreme Court on the 2d of May.

During the night Mr. Butler was given a Calathumpian serenade.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862 & in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1

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