H. Wiegel,
Actg. Provost Marshal.

Major.--I have the honor to report the arrest of Lewis Paine,
a refugee from Fauquier County, Va.

He was arrested at the house of Miss Maggie Branson, No. 16
North Eutaw Street. She is a noted Rebel.

I was promised evidence to prove that he had been in
Baltimore before, but the witnesses are not forthcoming, and I
believe him innocent of that charge, but I think it would be
well to remove him from that family. I would respectfully
recommend his release.

Very respy. your obdt. servt.,
H. B. SMITH.
Lt. & Chief.

When I entered my office on Friday morning March 10, 1865, Captain Webb,
my clerk, was trying to obtain from Paine some part of his pedigree, but
was baffled by the prisoner's dumbness. Then I tried with the result as
follows:

Baltimore, Md.,
March 10, 1865

Lewis Paine, refugee from Fauquier County, Virginia, my
parents reside near Orleans, in that County. I am eighteen and
a half years old. I have not been out of Virginia since the
war commenced, until this time.

I was never in the Rebel army. Mosby used to stay at the house
of Joe Blackwell, until his house was burned.

Willie Tung, of Warrenton.

Daniel Moffit, of Fauquier County, members of Mosby's command.

Miss Maggie Branson, with whom I was stopping, is related to
me by marriage.

[Illustration: LEWIS PAINE]

I bought the coat and vest of grey cloth in this city,
since I came here; my pants of grey I bought in Washington.

I don't remember of hearing any disloyal remarks from any of
the boarders at the house No. 16 North Eutaw Street. I whipped
a colored woman at that house on Monday last, because she
insulted me; her name is Annie.

(Signed) L. PAINE.

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, this 10th day of March,
1865.

H. B. SMITH,
Lt. & Chief.

Paine was a sullen, dumb looking, overgrown young person. To get
anything out of him I alternately prodded and fondled; he was a cross
between a big booby and a sullen animal.

His statement is disjointed. Between the joints you must imagine my
questions, eliciting his words; for instance, "I am eighteen and a half
years old," was in reply to my query about his pretensions to never
having been in the army. To my remarks about his new grey clothes,
certainly