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<date value='1858-01-22'>Friday, January 22, 1858.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p>In the U. S. District Court,
Lincoln files an affidavit for Louis Reinbach, his client in the case of
<name type='case' key='L02282'>United States v. Reinbach</name>. Lincoln
defends Reinbach against the charge that he stole from the mail while employed
at the Franklin, Illinois, post office in Morgan County. <bibl default='NO'>Affidavit of
Louis Reinbach, filed 22 January 1858, <ital>United States v. Reinbach</ital>,
IHi, Springfield, IL; John T. Richards, <title>Abraham Lincoln: The
Lawyer-Statesman</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), following
204.</bibl>
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