1868-06-01, W. A. Hoppe, former keeper of the Chimborazo Bath House, and Richmond Unionist, states that he is only the half brother of the man in the Trueman-Hoppe case
From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/1/1868, p. 1, c. 3
MR. W. A. HOPPE desires it to be distinctly understood that F. A. Hoppe, spoken of in the evidence in the Trueman-Hoppe case, is not his natural but only his half brother.