NP, RS 1/26/1865

From the Richmond Sentinel
January 26, 1865
 
Conveying Intelligence to the Enemy
 
   Samuel Ruth, Superintendent of the Richmond and Fredericksburg {Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac} Railroad; Hugh Silva of King George, and John H. Timberlake, a policeman of Fredericksburg, were on Monday committed to Castle Thunder, on the charge of being regularly engaged in carrying information to the enemy. The parties have as yet had no examination, owing to the absence of a witness upon whom the authorities mainly rely, and therefore nothing is known of the evidence upon which they were arrested.
   Mr. Ruth has been long and favorably known in this city as a most efficient railroad officer, and a respectable, prudent and cautions man. His friends are slow to believe him guilty, not only because of his previous good character, but because of his peculiar and remarkable caution and reticence, and a most marked disposition to mind only his own business.
   The authorities expect to prove by one Mrs. Dade, of King George, that Ruth, Timberlake and Silva have long been leagued together and engaged in running a regular mail to the Yankees on the Potomac.
   At the request of the police authorities, we forbore to mention this case before.

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