Lynchburg Virginian

It will be seen by the following examination that the person arrested in the State of Ohio, some time since, charged with having committed murder fourteen years ago, in Washington county in Maryland, is not Dean, the murderer, for whom he was taken, and has accordingly been discharged.

From the Hagerstown Torch Light, Sept. 4.

CLARK'S CASE.-The examination of William Clark, who has been confined in the jail of Washington county for some weeks, under the name of Peter Dean, charged with the murder of Jacob Hinc, in Pleasant Valley, in this county, in 1822, took place under habeas corpus, at the Court-house, on Monday last, before Hon. John Buchanan, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. A number of very respectable gentlemen, of Harford county, appeared as witnesses in behalf of the accused. It was proved, most conclusively and satisfactorily, that the accused was not Peter Dean, but William Clark, of Harford county in his youth, where he had constantly lived for 25 or 30 years, with but few and short intervals, up to the time of his emigration to Ohio, about 18 months ago. Dean on the contrary, was a native of this county, and was proved to have lived constantly in it up to the time of the murder. Clark's character was clearly established to be that of a peaceable, orderly, honest, industrious, punctual, well behaved man. He has a wife and large family in Licking county, Ohio.

Much sympathy was excited in his behalf by the developments of the examination. And, after his discharge, a subscription, amounting to $130, was raised for him, and his passage home, free in the stages, kindly proffered. Mr J. D. Keedy upon whose information, Clark was arrested, gave him $50. It is due to Dr. Keedy to state that several respectable gentlemen of Washington county, concur with him in the belief there is a striking resemblance between Clark and Dean.