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TILDEN WAS SOON RELEASED A Writ of Habeas Corpus Was Obtained Soon After Arrest of the Chicago Banker. Chicago, April 29.-Judge Petit in the circuit court granted a writ of habeas corpus for Edward Tilden, George M. Benedict and W. C. Cummings within a half hour after they had been arrested by E. H. Hatfield, assistant sergeant-at-arms of the IIIInois state senate. The hearing was set for Monday, and the three men were released on $5,000 bonds Hatfield bore warrants charging contempt of the Illinois senate for the refusal of the three to obey subpoenas calling for their appearance with those books and accounts of the receivers' Deposit National bank and the Drovers Trust and Savings bank relating to the accounts of Edward Tilden.