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The Daily Dispatch: June 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], A trophy of Sumter. (search)
Mayor's Court, yesterday. --Frank J. Brown, a youth dressed in soldier's uniform, was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from Mrs. Jefferson Davis and other parties in Richmond. Detective Weatherford, who arrested Brown in the Secession Club House, stated that in his confession the prisoner had told him thatBrown in the Secession Club House, stated that in his confession the prisoner had told him that an individual connected with the Southern Express office gave him, some time since, a number of bills for freight to collect; that he had presented and obtained the money on several of them before calling on Mrs. Davis, up to which time he believed himself engaged in an honorable business; but that being requested by that lady to ills to collect, when the fellow told him the trick was one resorted to to obtain money, and that every other account he had given him to collect was forged also. Brown did not stop here, however, but continued on knowingly to present the accounts, till going with one to Mrs. Major Allen, on Leigh street, between 7th and 8th, when