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luu luuiriur uumuuAuwijj uau mvtmtiuio ttojuuu win uuarrested unless lio leaves tbis world for a better one,THE CASE OF HOLMES.Walter H. Holmes, of tbo 17th Ward, in this city, arrested by Colonel Baker somo two months since, baa been tried at Washington by a Military Commission and convicted- Ho was proved to havo been extensively engaged in erasing the names from tho enrollment lists and destroying the tickets of names prepared for the draft, for a “consideration*1 of from ten dollars to twenty-five dollars. In some cases he oven went to men’s houses to receive the money.Holmes had previously borno a good chataeter in this ciiy, and been somewhat prominent as a minor Repub* lican politician? He was at ono time under arrest for highway robbery but proved himsolf innocent by establishing an alabi. The sentenco, a very severe one, is thathobo placed at hard labor in Clinton Prison, where the , convicts have to work about half a mile undor ground in iron mines, for ten years.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Fri, Apr 14, 1865
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