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The Daily Dispatch: may 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal Railroad Accidents. (search)
Trifling charge.
--Thos. Flaherty was carried before Recorder Caskie yesterday, for firing a pistol in the stable of Henry Lofker.
Considering the times we live in, the act was deemed to have been committed with justifiable motives, and Flaherty was triumphantly acquitted.
Trifling charge.
--Thos. Flaherty was carried before Recorder Caskie yesterday, for firing a pistol in the stable of Henry Lofker.
Considering the times we live in, the act was deemed to have been committed with justifiable motives, and Flaherty was triumphantly acquitted.
A Bank case.
--A novel case was brought to the attention of the Mayor yesterday.--From the testimony of Mr. E. M. Norvell, clerk in the Bank of Virginia, it appeared that on the 23d of March last, Thomas Flaherty came into bank and asked for a statement of his account.
A statement was given him showing that he had at that time $6,926.90 to his credit.
In the course of an hour after this statement had been furnished him he drew a check on the bank, which was cashed, for two thousand dollars more than there was there to his credit, and when the fact was discovered and he was informed that he had overdrawn, and was requested to make good his account, he declined to do so upon the ground that the bank had refused some time previously to rectify a mistake of $50 made against him in paying him a check.
The Mayor requested Mr. Norvell, as this was an entirely novel case, to make his complaint in writing, in order that he (the Mayor) might proceed in the matter strictly according