Named Entity Results, John H. Wilks

A Marriage probably Interrupted. --The police yesterday arrested a soldier named John H. Wilks, belonging to Capt. W. W. Parker's battery, on the charge of stealing three pairs of pantaloons, worth $325, the property of Myer Kraker, and falsely representing himself as a Confederate detective officer, who had been sent by Gen. Winder to arrest the said Kraker. When arrested, Wilks stoutly denied any intention of committing a theft, alleging as an excuse for being in K.'s store that havingWilks stoutly denied any intention of committing a theft, alleging as an excuse for being in K.'s store that having suspicious of his soundness towards the Confederacy, he went there either to confirm or remove his impressions. He protested in positive terms against being delayed in the city to answer the claims of the law, as he had more important (to him) business to attend to in Lynchburg, having just obtained a limited furlough to visit that city for matrimonial purposes. No appeals, however, which he could make were sufficient to reach the feelings of the hard-hearted limbs of the law, and they there