Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-25
THE PROOF.
Aflidavits Showing that L. Campbell
HOuk was the Man Who was i'm
the Washington CaIabOOse.

speech and gave his plzen excuse FOL
it, it was deemed unnecessary tx
produce further proof, but as some o
Houk's friends have been denying ht
was in the calaboose, we furnish the
following afidavits, which settles
the matter. The genuine afidavits
with the signature of r. j. Meigs, Jr.
we'll known Tennesseean, holding
position in Washington, with his sea
of office attached, have been placed il
the hands of the Mayor of Knoxville
r. S. Payne, where they can be seer
and examined by any person:
Cry OF WASHINGTON, G G
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. ~ ~
John B. Brownlow being duly
sworn, states that Re has resided IL
the city of Washington since May,
1879, and is well acquainted with l.
G. Houk, Representative in Congress
from the second district of Tennes~
see.
Affiant states that ON the 18th
day of last June, the Evening Critic,
of this city, published the following
item:
Among those who spent Saturday
night in the 9Th precinct station,
rumor says, there was d member of
Congress. He was arrested on the
charge of being drunk and disor>
derby, and gave his name as Camp
bell. The doughty NJ G. will not
appear in Police Court to day, as he
preferred to forfeit IS collateral.
Why, certainly"
The police day of Saturday would
continue until 8 o'clock Sunday
morning, and Sunday police day
would begin at 8 a. m. Anyone
arrested before s a. NJ would be
recorded as arrested on Saturday.
Affiant afterwards learned from diff
ierent persons thai the member res
ferred to was L. G. Houk, and on, or
about the 10th of August, he went
to the 9Th police station, on Capitol
Hill, where it was understood Houk
was imprisoned. Lieut.. j. E. Bote-
Ter, the officer in charge of the sta
ton, informed affiant that the person
who was arrested and confined said
he was Congressman Houk, Of Ten
nessee. He was very drunk and
filthy, and swore he would have them
(the policemen discharged. After
sleeping several hours he partially
recovered from his condition and
was discharged from custody about
II a. H., on Sunday, after depositing
So collateral for his appearance at
Police Court, and begging his keeper
not to divulge his name. At the
suggestion of Boteler Houk signed
a fictitious name, Il. Cam pbell,) in
receipting for his money, knife, &C.,
Affiant examined the signature l..
Campbell, and knows it to be Houk s
handwriting.
On the 18th of September, afiant
went back to the station with an
engraver IN the employ of Maurice
Joyce, and Boteler repeated his for
mer statement of Houk's arrest.
There and then affiant saw B. t.
Henery, the keeper of the station, and
brother of W. T. Henery, the special
policeman who arrested him. B. L.
Henery said he locked him i'll cell
No. 5, and that he said lie was Con-
gresham Houk, of Tennessee, and
threatened to have them all dis
charged. The engraver made a fac
smile of the receipt, which has been
published in the supplement of the
1IaryvilIe Waterman, September
9th, 1892.
AtfianG further states that on the
18th instant, in company with James
T. Rule and C. A. Hamilton, a Res
publican journalist, he called again
at the police station and saw said
Boteler about an alleged interview
with George B. CorkhilI, the United
States Attorney for this district.
Boteler said he never told Corkhill
that Houk was not arrested but did
tell hun that if L. Campbell was
Houk, then Houk was certainly ar
rested and imprisoned. Boteler told
af1iant that he had heard several
times that L. Campbell and L. c.
Houk were Identical.
3. +. Henery said that he locked
L. Campbell (as he signed his
nancy III Cell No. 5, but he
declined to make a statement about
it, but said the person claimed
to be member of Congress from
Tennessee; and added that he
(Henery) did not want to be mixed
up in the matter He also said that
several Of Houk's friends had called
to see his BROKER wv. b about it
". F. Henery said he arrested a per
son who signed his name L. Camp
bell, but he has learned that he toIt
others he was Congressman Houk
that he arrested him in front of the
Con gressional Hotel (where Houb
boarded) for profanity that he was
dirty and filthy and looked like he
had lain on a dirty floor that he was
staggering drunk aEd very profane
that a few days after tie arrest be
heard that it was Congressman Houk
and that he did not appear to be
poisoned. Affiant showed Henery
several letters written by Houk, anG
he said he believed they and the sig
nature L. Campbell were written By
the same man. Affiant further states
that when he called at the police
station, on the 18th instant, Botelel
at first refused to let him see the
"Record of Arrests, and not unit
afiant insisted that the record was Of
public character, did Boteler per
NIT him and the gentlemen with him
to see it.
Atlantis interview with B. 7. anG