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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) or search for Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.
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Attempt to Swindle.
--That the city has an over-abundance of unscrupulous persons residing here at the present time, has been abundantly proved on several occasions.
On Tuesday night a fellow, disguised in the habiliments of a soldier, entered a barber shop near the Old Market-House, and after getting shaved, offered in payment a dollar Tennessee note.--Not being able to make the change, the barber returned it to his customer, who refused to receive it, saying he had given him a ten dollar note.
Drawing a big knife, he chased all of the operatives out of the shop, and was in the act of demolishing the proprietor when Capt. Pleasants, of the Night Watch, entered, and hearing all the circumstances, directed the man to adjourn, but that if he wished the barber arrested, he could do so by getting a warrant.
The man went off, but soon returned with one of the Provost Marshal's detectives, who carried both plaintiff and defendant before Capt. Alexander.
The barber was searched, an