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Sent to jail.
--Jas. Early, on failure to give security for his good behavior, was sent to jail yesterday by the Recorder.
James has been taken by the watchmen in an inebriated condition.--B. W. Bernard, arrested on Sunday as a suspicious person, was sent to jail for further examination.--Hugh McMeen, for breaking Thomas M. Granger's window, and otherwise conducting himself in a disorderly manner, was committed in default of $200 surety for his future good behavior.
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extra session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States . (search)
Suspicious persons.
--A person representing himself to be a telegraphic operator from Washington, called B. W. Bernard, alias Camp, alias any other name that he sees fit to assume, underwent yesterday before the Mayor a partial examination for being a person of suspicious character.
The party made a lengthy statement, from which it appeared that by some means he had wormed himself into the confidence of influential parties here, and had been entrusted with sundry important undertakings, which he had succeeded in carrying out in a very dubious manner.
Prisoner is the same party who was dispatched to Iowa after one of John Brown's men, and who made such a bungle of the business.
Some of his exploits in that capacity were commented on by the Iowa papers in no very complimentary way. He told the Mayor that his ability as a telegraphic operator enabled him, with very small trouble, while passing any telegraph wire, to ascend and affix an apparatus by which he could find out what w