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Acquittal of Dr. McClure.

--In Judge Halyburton's Court yesterday Dr. W McClure, the embalmer, was arraigned for trial on an indictment charging him with a misdemeanor and attempting to bribe Confederate detectives. When the case was called the counsel for the accused, Messrs R T Daniel and F W Hoblitzell, moved that the indictment be quashed, which was accordingly done by the Judge, and Maclure thereupon discharged. The law makes it a penal offence to offer a bribe to a judge or any person interested in the trial of a cause; but to attempt to buy order a Confederate detective, or other police officer, is not considered a crime. The long confinement which Maclure has endured has greatly reduced him in flesh, (though at best he was by no means very robust,) and on the street after his acquittal yesterday he was scarcely recognized by his most intimate acquaintances.

The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. June 29, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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