An ex-legislator, named John M. Anderson . . .

. . . was mulcted in $10,500 before the Supreme Court, at Philadelphia, last week, for seducing the daughter of a hotel keeper, at Harrisburg, whose acquaintance he made while attending his legislative duties at the capital.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 2