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t-The list MartyrThe last Sentinel has a pitiful whine be-'cut!:* one Dr. C- K. Hartyrof this county,ah as been indicted him! lield fur trial by the Cram] Jury of the United States, for harboring u dtre.icr, uriti resisting an officerwhen in .the discharge of LUC duty* This patriotic »hcet goes off into terrible lament-a lions because the friends of Jeff. Da*isnant* * •are not to aid and encourage deserters with impunity, and endorses the doctor ubuo*t as .highly as it endorsed ah-V? «fother citutcii, .\ few week since, who not aA .week after its fulsome juiff, was so drunk ms 10 need assistance in gelling into his wagon, and rode out of tow n, hurrahing lor Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confede-na4a♦atTxacy. .The alleged facts in the case of Dr. ftarter are us follows: . X juan named¥4htVnftlLeach after having voli;»tocred in an Ohio regiment and deserted, hired out as substitute for a sxmu drafted from KosciuskofidfiDftOVcounty, ami niter ubtaimijg his pay-desert-aga.Hi^anlt;l enlisted** a cavalry company, fmm wjiieh^he'deserted die third time.TUU-jnan yeas harbored and conceals! by j'%Dr. Harter, ho knowing the facts in the'Case, and when it wit# discovered that*Dench was concealed i.i his office, refused to allow him to*be arrested, stoutly denying that die was on his premises,-or thathe knew anything of bis whereabouts at theW KJC.£«ttFftaetdtime-whenjie bad 14® hi the , next room, where a few minutes later he was arrested. This man. -Leach was in no ways related to the doctor, andv his only excuse for thus defying the daws of the United States, was his sympathy fbra deserter of the worst stamp, simply because he was like himsd^ if‘ lla Copperhead Scores of such martyrs as,I uthe doctor, way be found in any of our J penitentiaries, and we think the maudfin ^ sympathy of the Sentinel for a law-breaker is a sickly kind of sentimentality, not at all creditable to a, pretended conservator of law and order.rItWe have no att will to Dr. Harter per-, aooally; if he be innocent, we hope he may be speedily and triumphantly acquitted;p mbut if he be gutltyy as from our information we believe him to be, we hope he wili receive the merited punishment.n\ifrtcK
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Rochester Chronicle
Rochester, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1863
Page 2
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