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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred Dollars reward. (search)
ourt. Perhaps the course adopted by him was a wise one after all; for it is not likely if he had ventured out into the streets attired as he was that he could have gone very far before being again pounced upon by the limbs of the law. James M. D. Irving, sent on to the Hustings Court by the Mayor some months since on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences, was sent back for re-examination by Judge Lyons. Irving was sent on by the lower court for obtaining, under false pretencIrving was sent on by the lower court for obtaining, under false pretences, $103.20 from Capt. John H. Wayt, which decision Judge Lyons, on examining the record, regards as an improper one, the offence of the prisoner being forgery of the name of George W. Finley for commutation of hospital rations, amounting to the above mentioned sum. In the absence of the Mayor, the case was postponed till Tuesday next. An ineffectual attempt was made by prisoner's counsel to obtain bail. He was remanded to jail. Several parties were fined for violation of the city ordinan