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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
A tin Serape. --A. Berile, a young man of rather genteel appearance, was yesterday before the Mayor for offering to sell a lot of tin belonging to the Confederate States. Capt. Pleasants, who made the arrest, stated that hearing that several suspicious looking boxes had been deposited on Thursday night in the back room of a restaurant on Main street, kept by a man named beckman, he proceeded thither and found that his information was correct. In a short time after going to Beckman's, Berile came in, when he proceeded to question him with regard to the manner in which he obtained the boxes of tin. The explanation of the accused not being sufficiently satisfactory, he took him in custody, and lodged him in the lock-up for examination. Capt. W. N. Smith, Superintendent of the C. S. Laboratory, gave Berile an excellent character. He had been employed for the last three years as shipping clerk of that establishment, and he had never had reason to suspect him of any improp