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The Daily Dispatch: May 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee letter writers. (search)
C. S. District Court. --The Judge of this Court having overruled the very carefully prepared and long indictment made by the Grand Jury against Geo. W. Elam for the offence of tampering with the money of the Confederate States by forging Treasury notes and passing them as genuine, a new Grand Jury has been ordered to assemble to-day, for the purpose of making the indictment in conformity with the views of the Judge. As the objection to the first indictment was a more technical one, no doubt the grand jury will to-day have no difficulty in finding a "true bill" on the many "counts" against E am which they have heretofore verified. The only result attained by the delay which has already occurred is to increase the chances of the accused by the possibility of a raid by the Yankees on Richmond; but these chances must be considered slight when we remember that even if the vandals were successful in making an inroad on the Capital of the Confederacy, parties accused of offences again