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The Daily Dispatch: May 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fire in Petersburg. (search)
n the post-office for letters, and receiving the said letters. It appeared that accused and an older boy on last Sunday morning obtained some twenty-five or thirty letters from box 332 on an order purporting to be signed by Mr. Baptist, but which was a forgery. The forgery having been discovered, and the accused presenting a similar order on Wednesday he was arrested, when he confessed having committed the forgery, and obtained the letters, in which he protested that there was only $10. Officer Seal, who has possession of the first forged order being absent the case was continued, and the boy admitted to ball in the sum of $500. Peter, slave of E. H. Smith, who had been caught by the watchmen on the night before breaking into John O'Neal's cake stand near the First market, and who when arrested violently resisted the officers, was ordered to be whipped. The case of Joseph Needham, charged with stealing a horse worth $2,000 from Edward Griffin, was continued till tomorrow.