Bartholomew Smith to [Rev. stamp.], April 14, 1866

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The State of Ohio, Hamilton county, to wit:

Bartholomew Smith says that he is the eldest living brother of James Smith, now confined in Mount Joy prison, Dublin, Ireland, on suspicion of complicity with the movements of the Fenians; that the said James was born on the 14th day of April, in the year 1831, in the city of Cincinnati, and State of Ohio, where his parents then resided; that he lived in the said city until about the year 1853, when he went to California and Oregon. Soon after he enlisted in the army of the United States, and continued in the service until last October, when he resigned the lieutenancy, to which he had been promoted. When James Smith left Cincinnati last October, it was for the purpose of settling an estate of his uncle’s. He was not a Fenian at that time, and had no complicity with them.

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The State of Ohio, Hamilton county, ss:

Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the peace within and for the township of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, and State of Ohio, having been duly elected and now in office, and duly qualified by law, under the statute to administer oaths, Bartholomew Smith, of lawful age, and long a resident of the city of Cincinnati, county and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, on his oath deposeth and saith, that the statement by him subscribed, and unto which my official jurat is attached, is a correct and true statement, to the best of his knowledge and belief; he, the affiant, being an elder brother of James Smith, and who (by letter received by me through the Department of State at Washington, United States of America) is now imprisoned in the city of Dublin, Ireland; and further Says not.