The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-11-09
alisfellaucous.
The Loyal Provost Marshal Of
the Second Ohio District Come
TO Grief.


From the Loyal Cincinnati Gazette of octo-
Der 3ist.
Serious Charge against COL Roberts
Alleged Outrage upoa q HubStitme-Ue
as Enlisted, tScmdicd, discharged, Ar-
rested and L'oAed-Bctmd the Scenes u!
Porost Narshats OG2ce.
Mr.. Joseph p. Carbery, of the Sixth
Ward Of this city, was dlaitcd on the 10th
| day of September last, and made u contract
to pay Thomas Cassett the sum of nine hun
dred dollars for his services as substitute
for one year. MIR. c. now makes the spe-
ciic charge against Colonel Roberts, Provost
Marshal of the Second district, that he im-
| properly discharged the substitute and re-
tanned the money which had been paid into
his hands for the use and bcne6t Of said
| substitute. Tuis charge, with u written
statement of thu facts have been submitted
to General Which, Post Conmander, and
are somewhat to the following effect:
Alter Ca sett had been mustered into the
! service he osked leave to go to his hotel for
soue cloth;ng-a uniform that he had drawn
white member the lst q. V. L., in which
rcgimcnt he had served more than three
years. The money which had been paid in
to the hands Of Colonel Roberts when the
principal, Mr.. Carbely, received his exenlp-
ton papers, was retained as surely for the
return OF the substitute, to be paid him at
the time when he should leave the city for
the general rendezvous at Columbus
Cas tt was ttrloughed for u few days, and
ordered to report on the 24th Of September;
bat being i'll, he did not again appear at the
Provost Marshal eilice until the 9th, when
he explained the cause of his lack ofpunctu-
ality, apparently to the satisfaction of Col.
Roberts, and reported himself US ready for
duty. The money, however, was not to be
found, fact which he Immediately stated to
his principal. Every day for more than a
week Ca,sett went to the uice, asked for his
money, desiring to be paid and sent to the
army: but as the money could not he found,
Col Roberts decided that he would not hold
the man for duty, anal told him to 90, at the
same time giving his personal guarantee
that no harm should come to him because OF
his having been sworn into the service.
This, however, did not satisfy the plinci
pal, who went to Col. Roberts and demand
cd the money that had been paid him for
benefit of the Cassett, the latter in the mean
time having left the city for his home in
Huntsville, Logan county, Ohio. MIR. Car
berry derived little satisfaction concerning
the disposition of his money, and although
he was exempted from the draft for one year,
he yet had some interest in learning the rea
son his substitute instead Of Icing paid ard
sent to the front, had been permitted to de-
parta truly laudalle curiosity, which, how
ever, failed to develop any satisfactory cause,
when he determined to lay the matter before
Col. Wilcox. Provost Mar hal General of
the State. A man was sent here from head
L., Il al Il h.,
matter satisfactorily.
In the meantime, Cassett having gone to
Urbana, regarding himself as having been re-
lieved from any obligation he had made here,
fronthe non tulilmcnt of the contract on the
part Of the p rovo>t Marshal, was mustered
into the service there as substitute for a
drafted man, for which he received $l,O25,
Thereupon he came to this city for the pur-
pose Of seeing some friends and paying oft
some Indebtedness before he should go to
the army, intending to return to Utbana as
soon as thee matters were completed.
Shortly after his arrival lie G he was seiz-
ed by some detectives, charged with being
err relieved of $S03 that was found upon his
racks. A few days afterwara his mother
mony OF halfa dozen citizens Of that place,
showing the good character of the young
man, who is only twenty-thrcc years of age,
was wounded at Mission Ridge, had been
honorably discharged, and with these proofs
endeavorrd to procure his release No no.
tice was taken of her, although she was per-
mitted to see her SON. aud he still remains
IA. oh