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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], Movements of the enemy in North Carolina. (search)
rs' descriptive lists a considerable amount due various of them was also transferred to the pockets of the keen operators from the paymaster. We are informed that in these transactions Gilmer A. Lumpkin acted the part of nephew to Wyvill and — Tankersley the witness to prove his identity Lumpkin, it will be remembered, was sent a few days ago before the Hustings Court for examination on the charge of forging S. H. Owens & Son's name to a check for $5,000, payable to the order of West & Johnston at the Traders' Bank.--Tankersley was some time since incarcerated for his connection with Wyvill. All of the above parties boarded at the Powhatan House, and the officers who arrested Wyvill found in his room preparations for forgeries even larger and more daring than those he had formerly perpetrated. It is supposed that he and his associates cheated the Government out of at least $40,000. The man Tankersley, named above, was formerly an actor at the Varieties Theatre, Franklin street, unde