Named Entity Results, Lucy Morton

Forgery by a negro. --On the 2d of February, a negro named Carter, slave of Mrs. Lucy Morton, presented at the Farmers' Bank in this city a check for $450, which he represented that his mistress had drawn off in a hurry and sent him to collect. Being well acquainted with Mrs. Morton, the cashier, deeming the story told by the servant to be a plausible one, promptly paid the amount; but a short while after, upon a close examination of the order, doubted its genuineness, and therefore sent Mrs. Morton, the cashier, deeming the story told by the servant to be a plausible one, promptly paid the amount; but a short while after, upon a close examination of the order, doubted its genuineness, and therefore sent a messenger to the lady's residence in relation to the matter. The bell was answered by the boy who presented the check and received the money; but, instead of his carrying to his mistress the message which was sent by the officer of the bank, that he desired to see her "on bank business," the fellow kept on out through the back way, and was not seen afterwards till during the late raid of Dahlgren, when he was captured by some of our pickets below the city. Among the large number of negroes