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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], News from Fort (search)
found in the prisoner's pockets a "brass knuckle" and $7.50 in money. (At this stage of the proceedings a spectator in the crowd exclaimed, in an excited tone of voice, "I beg the favor of the Court, gentlemen. I have come seventy miles to be a witness for the Commonwealth, and am now omniscient and omnipresent. I hope the Court will take my evidence and let me go." The Mayor desisted the voice to keep quiet, and assured its owner that his case would be taken up presently.) Mr. W. Benson was examined for the defence. After requesting Mr. Wooten not to interrupt him, he said that six weeks ago the prisoner came to his; place of business, representing himself as Dr. Camps, and desired employment. He professed to be acquainted with Gen. Beauregard, and said something about smuggling goods from the North. He concluded not to employ him until he knew something more about him, and next heard that he was at the Orleans House. Last Thursday night he came back, said he had qu