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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fire in Petersburg. (search)
Mayor's Court. --The most interesting case before this court yesterday morning, was that of Lewis H. Allen, a boy about fourteen years of age, who was charged with forging the name of Mr. John H. Baptist to an order on the post-office for letters, and receiving the said letters. It appeared that accused and an older boy on last Sunday morning obtained some twenty-five or thirty letters from box 332 on an order purporting to be signed by Mr. Baptist, but which was a forgery. The forgery Mr. Baptist, but which was a forgery. The forgery having been discovered, and the accused presenting a similar order on Wednesday he was arrested, when he confessed having committed the forgery, and obtained the letters, in which he protested that there was only $10. Officer Seal, who has possession of the first forged order being absent the case was continued, and the boy admitted to ball in the sum of $500. Peter, slave of E. H. Smith, who had been caught by the watchmen on the night before breaking into John O'Neal's cake stand near th