The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Found guilty of Forgery.

--Charles Smith was tried before Judge Lyons yesterday, for forging J. R. Crenshaw's name to a check for $34, which he passed to Gotlieb Maisch. The prisoner was ally defended by H. C. Cannon, but the proof being very clear, the jury found him guilty, and sent him to the Penitentiary for three years. The prisoner was then tried for forging Warwick & Barksdale's name to a check for $46, (passed to Peleg Vincent,) and was defended by the same counsel. The jury found him guilty, and ascertained the term of his imprisonment at two years. In two other cases vs Smith, the Prosecuting Attorney entered nolle prosequis. In one other case pending against him the Court quashed the indictment.

When the prisoner was arrested for the offence above named, he was found in the room of a courtesan with whom he had been sustaining intimate relations for some years. When she heard the officer coming she put Smith in a wardrobe. Yesterday the female in question visited the prisoner in Court and had a private confab with him. It is supposed by the friends of Smith, that had it not been for the woman in question, conjoined with a love of fine clothes, a small liking for spirits, a considerable love for the ‘"tiger,"’ and an unconquerable propensity to sign other people's names, he would not now occupy the position he does. The supposition is no doubt true.