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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Receiver's sale of negroes. (search)
ount of a receipt for house rent, to the amount of one thousand three hundred dollars, purporting to have been due to C. C. Ellerson. Mr. Whitlock occupies a house belonging to J. W. Allison, but was called upon by Boyd to pay the bill upon a receipt the 7th of July a negro boy called upon Mr. Whitlock and presented him an account for three months house rent, due Mr. C. C. Ellerson; but on discovering the signature, he refused to pay it till he could make some inquiry into the matter. The boy told him to receipt the bill and he would borrow enough to make up for what he did not have on hand. Boyd then signed C. C. Ellerson's name to the bill, and was paid $975, which he had counted over and was about putting into his pocket, when John W. before the Hustings Court on the charge of obtaining money upon false pretences. As there was no such person as C. C. Ellerson known to be the owner of the house occupied by Whitlock, it could not be considered that Boyd had been guilty of a fo