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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five dollars reward (search)
regards the statement made in this column on the 9th inst., relative to the death of his kinsman, Lieut. C. E. Earle, of the Palmetto Rifles, "as unfair, improper, and highly objectionable in several particulars," and desires to know the "authority for saying that insanity is hereditary in the family" of the deceased. The Reporter was at the scene of the disaster (Ballard House shortly after its occurrence. His item founded thereon was made up from information given him by Messrs. Ballard, Powers, and others, (the first-named proprietor and clerk of the House.) He does not remember that it differs from the accounts published in the other city papers. He was not present at the inquest held on the body, but the facts elicited can readily be ascertained by addressing the Coroner. He is informed by a gentleman that it accords with his recollection that one of the statements made before the jury was to the effect that insanity was hereditary in Lieut. Earle's family, and that statement