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The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
arged with "harboring, comforting, and concealing persons serving in the rebel armies, acting and lurking as spies within, the lines of the United States army." The former was sentenced to confinement at hard labor for the period of six months, and the latter for the period of two years. William H H Hodges, citizen, was charged with embezzlement, and "fraudulent, dishonest, and contumacious conduct, to the prejudice of good order in the department."He was Cashier of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Portsmouth, and his "fraud, " according to the specification, consisted in his refusal to give any account of the property of the corporation entrusted to his care to a commission appointed to examine into the condition of the affairs of said corporation, or to the commanding General of the Department, who doubtless wanted to appropriate the funds to his own use. The court sentenced him to confinement, at hard labor, for the period of two years. Mr Hodges is a son of Gen H