1844-12-14-New York Tribune-Arrest for Libel

Arrest for Libel

Source: New York Tribune, 14 December 1844, pg 2

Arrest for Libel.�To-day officer Milliken arrested a man named Samuel Brennan, editor of a Mormon paper in this city called 'The Prophet,' charged with having published on the 23d. November last, a malicious libel on a Mormon preacher of Philadelphia named Benjamin Winchester. Brennan was held to bail in $1,000 to answer.