The daily clarion

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pletely as the limited time would admit,

and have the honor to report such facts

in the case as I have been able to gather,

and make such suggestions as tho case

seems to warrant. Harrison Brooks

states that he killed the man 'Claiborne' Reamer DeSoto. They touched at St. Thorn

t :i .i wJtM.vswIf... as, Port au Prince and Havana, spending a

wnue m i"o i few days at each place, and were cordially

Jane, for which lie was arrested and con- received bv the authorities everywhere.

fiued some two years and six months.

That his trial was, for caiue alledged by

his accusers, put off from time to time

until about the time of the surrender of

Vicksburg to the Federal authorities,

when he, together with other prisoners,

was released by the so-called Confederate

authorities. He also shows that soon

after his release he joined the Pioueer

Corps, in the United States service, aud

served therein six months, and that since

his discharge from the said Pioneer Corps

lie has served as Government scout and

detective. That in eonsequeuee of dif

ficulties with different parties, growing

out of his peculiar duties as scout and

detective in the service of the United

States, he was lately arrested upon the

old charge of murder, aud convicted and

sentenced to be hung on the 12th of De

cember, lSdo. That the only evidence i

brought against him with regard to the

circumstances immediately connected

with the killing of the man Claiborne, was

that of his wife Jane, whom he claims to

have found in crim. con. with the man

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily clarion. (1866). Meridian, Miss., 1866-02-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016892/1866-02-01/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily clarion, 1866-02-01.