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Mayor's Court.
--Isaac Jacobs and Nathan Bernstein were yesterday arraigned before His Honor, the first on the charge of uttering counterfeit passports, and the latter with attempting to obtain $1,500 on false pretences.
The testimony for Jacobs went to show that Bernstein, thinking J. had left the Confederacy, conceived the idea of extorting money from Mrs. Jacobs, on the plea that her husband owed him that amount for passports he had furnished, which afterwards turned out to be counterfeit, while B's. witnesses proved that Jacobs had sold him four passports to go North for the sum of $1,500, with the understanding that if they were not genuine hefinement for want of a definite charge against him, and afterwards called on Mrs. Jacobs to refund him the money which her husband had received for the spurious passetail.
Bernstein was discharged from the accusation preferred against him; but Jacobs was remanded to the Hustings Court, and bail refused him.
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