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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Disgraceful Conduct of soldiers. (search)
Arrest of an alleged Counterfeiter.
--George W. Siam, who escaped from the city jail a short time since, while under indictment of counterfeiting and passing bogus Confederate Treasury notes, was re-arrested yesterday by sundry members of Capt. Louis J Bossieux's Co., B, City Battalion, and conducted to his old quarters in the city jail.--The circumstances connected with the arrest are few and as follows: About 12 o'clock yesterday one of the members of Co. B thought he recognized Elam in an individual who was then making his way into a restaurant on the south side of the Basin.
Without alarming the party, he repaired quickly to the barracks of Co. B, and summoning a number of his comrades he returned, and, entering the house, demanded the surrender of the stranger as Elam.
The party made no reply, save in the shape of a hasty exit from the house.
His pursuers followed hastily, and being nearly on him, be turned, drew a pistol and discharged it at the foremost of his pursuers