Memphis Daily Appeal, CS
MEMPHIS INTELLIGENCE
Capt. Cheek, of Mound City, has again been arrested, and placed on trial before the military Court. The Bulletin makes no mention of the evidence, but says that the charge is "being concerned in the hanging of a Union man opposite the city last summer." Upon this he was acquitted by Col. Fitch and Com. Davis, immediately after the occupation of the city. It seems, however, the new authorities were not satisfied. The abolition organ exposes the improbable character of the testimony introduced in the following notice of the affair:
E. Cheek.—The Cheek case is in progress. Thus far we gather that two witnesses have deposed most positively as to the old gentleman's guilt. One of them asseverated that Mr. Cheek adjusted the rope around the neck of the murdered man, threw it over the limb of the fatal tree and helped to string him up. The other swore that Mr. Cheek afterwards kicked the dead man's body into the river.