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The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Arkansas. (search)
Fruitless excitement. --A man went into the Passport Office on Saturday, and, inquiring for a passport to Preston county, was informed that it could not he granted, when he remarked that he would go any how, where upon Colonel Jones demanded his name. This he refused to give, and started to run. He made his way into the Capitol Square, where, a hue and cry being raised, he was quickly surrounded and secured. He proved to be a lunatic convict from Preston county, named Simon Peter Cobun, run. He made his way into the Capitol Square, where, a hue and cry being raised, he was quickly surrounded and secured. He proved to be a lunatic convict from Preston county, named Simon Peter Cobun, who had, on Saturday morning, served his time out. Being brought before the Mayor, and the fact of his lunacy being testified to by an officer of the State's Prison, the Mayor directed Cobun to be brought before him again this morning, when provision may be made for his being sent to the Asylum.