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BOUNCED BODILY.A Wholesale “Moonshine” WhiskyDealer.FORMERLY OF DEFIANCF..Turned Loose From theSoldiers' Home at |Dayton.iAND HEADED HDMEWAHD.The following order was issued by the official* at lie Soldier's Home, Dayton, Ohio,Tuesday of last week*w •Central Branch, National Home, ffor Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. -Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 17th, 1888. 'Special Orders, t No. 4. )Henry Balske, late Private 0 Co.. 7lit Ohio Infantry ; disability, diarrhcea; no i-peu*ioner; age, 40 years; ad mined to Central Branch, December 8th, 1883; in arrest and confinement three times—for long continued, systematic rmuggliug of whisky into this Horne, for sale to members; and tor the most beastly relations with a colored woman and her daughter, in \Wst Da ton, is hereby Summarily Discharged from the Central Branch, National Home for D. V. S. The Police Guards are warned to prevent him from entering the Home grounds.By order ofGeneral M. H. Patrice, Carl Berlin, Governor.Adjutant,!A Dayton exchange gives the followingaccount of the affair:“Vest *rday morning there was a little excitement at the Soldiers' Home, when Henry Balske was parad* d around through the different avenues wish a placard on his back which read, “Wholesale Whisky Dealer,’' The trouble, as told by the officer in charge originated as follows:1 Balske was in the habit of coming to this city and contracting with some person to take certain quantities of whisky out to the Soldiers' Home and deliver thesame to another party, who was to hide itand deal it out to the old soldiers at 10 cents per drink. Balske, it is said, bad Kept up this kind of a “moonshine” whisky business for two years before liis arrest and conviction yesterday. He had often been arrested on suspicion hr the authorities at the Home, but they nevlt;*r made a clear case on him until recently, wnen he was getting very bold with his work.After he had been marched about thepremises yesterday, he was then brought to this city where lie was put on board a train, and started for Defiance, O., where it is said he has relatives. Balske was a substitute for a man from that locality during the latter part of the war.
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Defiance Democrat
Defiance, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 26, 1888
Page 3
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Thomas K.
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