. . . was arrested and his boat detained at Burlington on last Saturday, on a charge of having appropriated wood for which he never offered to pay. The charge is declared false by all the Captain’s [hands], and the Captain has laid in damages at the rate of seventy five dollars a day for all the time he is detained. Unless the party arresting, whose, name we have not heard, can prove his charge it will prove an expensive job to him before he gets it off his hands. –{Oquawaka Plaindealer.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2
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