Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-10-25

He fully corroborates Col. Brown
low. Read them both carefully:
Cry OF WASHINGTON, S.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. DO
Charles A. Hamilton being duly
sworn, deposes and says that on the
18th day of October, 1882, he, in
company with Mr.. J. f. Rule and
Col. J. B. Brownlow, went to the
9Th Metropolitan police station, in
the city of Washington, and heard a
conversation between Lieutenant
Boteler, of the police force, and Col.
Brownlow aforesaid, the subject of
which was as follows: Col. Brown
low first asked Lieutenant Boteler
if he would allow us to see certain
book, wherein are noted the receipts
taken for property from persons un,
der arrest. Lieutenant Boteler at
first declined, but finally consented.
He, Boteler, said that prisoner who
gave his name as ''L. Campbell, age
As, occupation, lawyer" who was
arrested early Sunday morning, June
18th, might have been poisoned, but
he was certainly drunk when arrests
ed. Boteler said that he never told
District Attorney Corkhill, that Cone
gresham Houk was not arrested J;
told him he might have been. If
Campbell and Houk are identical,
then Houk was certainly arrested.
Two letters, signed by L. c. Houk,
were exhibited to Mr.. Boteler, and
he compared them with the signature
on the receipt for the property re-
turned to Campbell when he was
released from custody. Boteler said
that he should say that the sigma
lures to the letters, and the signa~
ture to the receipt were written by
the same party; further said that he
had heard several times that L
Campbell was really Congressman
Houk, of Tennessee; he would not
make affidavit that he was or was
not.
Deponent further says that he, in
company with Messrs. Rule and
Brownlow aforesaid, called at the
residence of B. T. Henery, station
keeper of No. s police station.
Henery said in the presence of de-
ponent, that he locked up Mr.. Camp
bell at the police station, but declined
to be interviewed" on the subject; he
further said that he never saw Camp
bell before or since; at the time of
Campbell's arrest, he said he was
member of Congress from Tennessee,
but, said Mr.. Henery, Il don't want
to be mixed up in the matter" I
have heard that he said he would
have people discharged for arresting
him, / do not know whether
he was Houk or not. [ took no no
tice of the papers found on him
further than to look in the envelope
to see what valuables they contained.
Several friends of Houk came to see
my brother about the matter"
W. F. Henery, brother of the
above, special policeman of the
City of Washington, said in sub
stance as follows:
Z" arrested L. Campbell. He did
not tell me that he was Congressman
HOuk, but / heard that he told others
that he was. I arrested him in front
of the lamp post which is in front of
the Congressional Hotel. He was
dirty and filthy, and looked as though
he had been lying on the dirty floor
He staggered some. He cursed
pretty strong. I heard that he told
Boteler that he would have me dis
charged. [ heard that he said he
was a Congressman from Tennessee.
[ don't remember that he said that
he was Congressman Houk. I heard
that it was Houk few days after
the arrest. When 1 talked to the
reporter of the Critic [ had heard
that Campbell was Houk, member of
Congress from Tennessee. He
(CampbelD did not appear to have
been poisoned"
The signature of the letters signed
L. G. Houk, and the fac simile of the
receipt were shown to Mr.. Henery,
and he said that he should think
both were written by the same per-
son.
Deponent further says that he
has examined carefully the signature
of L. G. Houk on the hotel register
at the Ebbitt House and those signed
to several letters, and that he has
compared them with the signature
of L. Campbell on the police book,
and that in his judgment the sigma
lures of all were written by the same
| person.
Deponent further says that he is
journalist, temporarily residing in
Washington, D. G.
CHARLES A. HAMILTON.
Subscribed and sw 5rn to before me,
this 18th day of October, A. D.,
1882.
r. J. MEIGs,
Isrr7 Clerk Sup. Ct, D. G.
By r. J. ME1Gs,
No. Asst. Clerk.
ALIENS BRAIN FooD positively cures Ner-
vousness, Nervous Debility and all Weakness
of Generative Organs. 81. for SIS. All