NP, RW 2/2/1865

From the Richmond Whig
 
February 2, 1865
 
Honorably Discharged
 
   Mr. Samuel Ruth, Superintendent of the Fredericksburg Railroad Company {Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR}, arrested by the detectives ten days ago on the charge of conveying information to the enemy, and since confined to Castle Thunder, was on yesterday, after examination before Confederate Commissioner Baxter, honorably discharged. There was not the slightest shadow of evidence against him, and the person brought down from King George County to testify against him, and whose evidence was chiefly relied upon to fasten the charge upon him, had never seen or heard of him in his life. It is outrageous that a respectable citizen should be seized and thrown into that abominable hole, Castle Thunder, upon no better ground than a malicious whisper. The charge against Ruth was trumped up by some of the creatures along the line of the Fredericksburg road, whose title to free transportation he would never recognize.

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