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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1864., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], British cotton Prospects for 1864. (search)
n taken to the lower station-house, was recognized, from peculiar marks, as that belonging to Mayo, and he was authorized by the Mayor to take it away. John F. Fitzgerald, charged with obtaining $1,500 from Bally & Fisher under the representation that he had a large quantity of whiskey, brandy, and other articles enroute to this city from Lynchburg, which he would turn over to them when it arrived, was then called to the bar. Mr. Fisher's testimony proved that Fitzgerald called on him a few days since, and upon exhibiting a bill of consignment for a variety of valuable articles purporting to have been received by him from Mr. W. E. McEnery, a merchanty discovered something wrong. He (Fisher) took the cars that evening for Lynchburg, and, on arriving, ascertained from Mr. McEnery's clerk that the paper which Fitzgerald had shown was a forgery, whereupon he immediately telegraphed to this city for his arrest. Upon this testimony the prisoner was remanded for examination before
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Arrival of the flag of truce with sick and wounded prisoners. (search)
Judon Lyons' Court. --James Smith, sent on for stealing two watches, a pistol, and seventy-three dollars in money from John T. Townsend, was convicted of the offence and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. John F. Fitzgerald, indicted for obtaining one thousand five hundred dollars under false pretences from Fisher & Bailey, was pronounced guilty by the jury, and his punishment assessed at three years and eight months in the penitentiary. Upon the rendition of the verdict, General Humphrey Marshall, counsel for the accused, motioned to set aside the finding of the jury; whereupon the court took a recess till four o'clock, at which hour the Judge assembled to hear the points of argument upon which the motion was based.