Mayor's Court, yesterday.
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Frank J. Brown, a youth dressed in soldier's uniform, was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and other parties in
Richmond.
Detective
Weatherford, who arrested
Brown in the
Secession Club House, stated that in his confession the prisoner had told him that an individual connected with the
Southern Express office gave him, some time since, a number of bills for freight to collect; that he had presented and obtained the money on several of them before calling on
Mrs. Davis, up to which time he believed himself engaged in an honorable business; but that being requested by that lady to have the box purporting to be at the depot sent up to her residence, he found on application there was no box there, and then for the first time found out the bills were forged.
He immediately sought the man who had given him the bills to collect, when the fellow told him the trick was one resorted to to obtain money, and that every other account he had given him to collect was forged also.
Brown did not stop here, however, but continued on knowingly to present the accounts, till going with one to
Mrs. Major Allen, on Leigh street, between 7th and 8th, when the fraud was detected.
He succeeded including arrest till a few nights after, when he was overhauled while playing a game of billiards in the
Secession Club House.
The
Mayor sent him on for indictment by the
Grand Jury of the Hustings Court.
Pocahontas Kuyfer was charged with assaulting and beating
Mildred Bohannon.--Both the complainant and prisoner are women of evil fame, and a host of witnesses of the same stripe was introduced to testify in the matter.
At the conclusion of their evidence the
Mayor announced his determination to require security of the whole of them for their good behavior for twelve months, as it was ascertained that they were drunken, dissolute characters, unfit to live within the corporate limits.
Up to the adjournment of the
Court no one seemed willing to become sponsors for their future good conduct, and therefore their offence will have to be expiated in the city jail.
The following negro fellows were ordered to be whipped: Jerry, slave of
Wm. Ratcliffe, charged with stealing three chickens from some person unknown, and a lot of crackers, the property of the
Confederate States; John, slave of
Charles Herndon, for receiving three bottles of
apple brandy from Stephen, a slave, knowing the same to have been stolen from
Jones &
Grant's store; and
Thomas, slave to Sally
Dabney, for throwing stones at children in the streets.
