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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred Dollars reward. (search)
consideration of his not obtaining anything in his attempt to rob, and the statement made relative to his character, the Recorder dealt leniently in the matter, and turned him over to the provost-marshal, to be sent to his command. A charge of swindling was preferred against Frederick Gerrard, a free negro. Susan, slave of William H. Fry, had apprised the prisoner of the fact that she had in her possession one hundred and fifty dollars in gold and silver belonging to a free boy named Jim Davis. This money Gerrard determined to have, and he accordingly went to Susan and represented that Jim had been arrested on a serious charge, and had solicited him to call on her for the money he had left in her hands, to be used for the purpose of helping him out of the scrape. --Susan refused to give up the money unless he would bring some white person to corroborate his statement. The prisoner went off, but returned in a short while after with a white man as witness; whereupon the money wa