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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Counterfeit money. (search)
Counterfeit money. --Alex. Clayton was carried before Commissioner Watson yesterday, charged with passing counterfeit $20 Confederate notes, printed in Philadelphia.--He belonged to the 9th Louisiana Regiment, and got the notes North, where he had been held as a prisoner of war. The offence being fully proved, he was committed to prison to answer the charge.
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
same for counterfeiting a $20 C. S. note; three presentments against Wm. Wright for counterfeiting and passing $10 C. S. notes, [the prisoner is a Yankee;] one presentment against Samuel Campbell for counterfeiting and passing a $5 C. S. Treasury note; six presentments against Squier, slave of J. A. Dudley, for passing Yankee counterfeits of the C. S. Treasury to the amount of $90; one presentment against H. R. Robinson alias Wm. H. Haskins for counterfeiting pay-rolls; one presentment against Michael Vahey for misdemeanor in counterfeiting a pay-roll. The following indictments were on Tuesday, viz: One against Alex. Clayton for attempting to pass a $20 counterfeit C. S. Treasury note; one against Chas. A. Pittman for forgery of the name of John Ambler, Major and Quartermaster, to a note for $1,036; five against A. B. Martin for misdemeanor in stealing letters from the Richmond Post-Office directed to members of the Washington Artillery. Court sits to-day at 11 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Prison Items. --Alexander Clayton and Andrew Donovan, the soldiers tried before the C. S. District Court and acquitted, were yesterday sent back to prison to be transported to their regiments. --John Beaty was arrested and caged last night on the complaint of Mary Tracy, who charges him with taking her clothes. The cage was left Saturday night, eighty-seven negroes, male and female having been pounced upon while enjoys in the activities incident to a grand party.
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the courts. (search)
and have a new indictment found. This view of the was opposed by Mr. Gilmer, for the prosecution who rent many authorities and made an ingenious argument in support of his position. The Court voted for submitted by defendants coursed, which will have the effect of putting an end to the end, unless a new indictment be found against the members of the Typographical Socity. C. S. District Court.--October, 13th, Fremonts James D. Halyburton, Judge, and P. District Attorney. Alexander Clayton, a returned paroled Confederate soldier, was set to the bar to be tried for misdemeanor for having tried to pass a Yankee Imitation of a $20 Confederate Treasury note as genuine money. The jury did not deem the evidence sufficient to convict, and acquitted the defendant. Andrew Donovan, a soldier, for some time past in confinement on a similar charge, was ordered to be let out of prison, no indictment having been found in his case. Decrees were entered against Wm. J. Bettert
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
Highway Robbery --On Sunday afternoon, as a youth named H. C. Frayser was going up the Central railroad with a bundle of eatables, &c, for his father, who is a member of Henley's Battalion, he was set upon by three boys named Alexander Clayton, George Kane, and John Kirby, who robbed him of everything he had. They threw the little fellow down and threatened to cut his throat if any resistance was offered. These juvenile robberies have lately been of frequent occurrence, and it is to be hoped that the offenders, if caught, will receive that punishment which their conduct deserves.