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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
Extensive forgery on the State Treasury --Arrest of the Suspected Forger--On or about the 6th of October, the day of the adjournment of the called session of the Virginia Legislature, a large number of blank warrants were abstracted from the office of the First Auditor of the State. Many of these warrants had the signature of the Auditor upon their face, that officer not unfrequently affixing his name to warrants to facilitate the business of the office, and with a view to the convenience of parties having claims against the State Government, who might present those claims for approval in his absence. On the day above stated many of these warrants upon the Treasury had been signed for the pay of the members of the Legislature, and the officers of the two Houses, and those were attested by the chief clerk of the office in the proper form. The blank checks which were stolen, although signed by the Auditor, still required the signature of Maj. Calvert, the State Treasurer, and t