Jeremiah Harmer
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Tuesday, 24 March 1857, page 1
PREPARING A CALL TO A CAMP-Jeremiah Harmer, a soldier belonging
to the garrison at Newport, was brought before Judge Pruden yesterday on a
charge of burglary. He entered the store of Mr. McLaughlin on Fifth street, on
Sunday evening and stole there from a violin worth about $20.
He was arrested soon after, while trying to sell the instrument at the corner of Broadway and Front street (Cincinnati). He was held to answer. His reason for committing the burglary he alleges to be that his company was ordered to the frontier, and as he had no great liking for border life, he took the speediest way of securing a cell in this city rather than a camp in the Western wilds.
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Dollar Weekly Times, Cincinnati, Thursday, 2 April 1857, page 3
A private, belonging to the Newport Barracks, by the name of Jeremiah Hamer, in order to save himself from going with his regiment to the frontier, committed burglary in this city on Sunday night week. He will find the halls of Columbus fully as uncomfortable as the woods and swamps of the frontier were to his imagination.