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Mayor's Court, yesterday.
--Frank J. Brown, a youth dressed in soldier's uniform, was charged with obtaining money under false pretences from Mrs. Jefferson Davis and other parties in Richmond.
Detective Weatherford, who arrested Brown in the Secession Club House, stated that in his confession the prisoner had told him that an individual connected with the Southern Express office gave him, some time since, a number of bills for freight to collect; that he had presented and obtained the money on several of them before calling on Mrs. Davis, up to which time he believed himself engaged in an honorable business; but that being requested by that lady to have the box purporting to be at the depot sent up to her residence, he found on application there was no box there, and then for the first time found out the bills were forged.
He immediately sought the man who had given him the bills to collect, when the fellow told him the trick was one resorted to to obtain money, and that every