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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The French Assignats. (search)
heck on the Exchange Bank of Richmond for $250, signed by Laniers, Tolleson & Catlett, and payable to the order of A. T. Daniel, Chestwood cale counter of the Traders' Bank, when he was informed that Laniers, Tolleson & Co. did no business with that Bank, the clerk expressing at the onvictions that the note was a forgery, Ezekiel forthwith sought Mr. Tolleson and exhibited it for his inspection. That gentleman immediatelye witness was positive as to the identity of Chestwood. Mr. Alfred Tolleson was then called, and, after examination of the check, prompt passed it on him was the prisoner at the bar. In this case Mr. Tolleson was equally certain the check was a forgery, and the Mayor made stant to answer. The next in order was one signed by Laniers, Tolleson & Catlett, on the Bank of Virginia, which he had presented for payney, and afterwards, when too late, found it was a forgery. Mr. Tolleson promptly pronounced this check a forgery, when the Mayor, after
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Virginia Legislature. (search)
ent by the Grand Jury. Before leaving the bar, Robertson was again arraigned on the charge of stealing a piece of light cassimere goods from the store of Alfred Tolleson. Officer Jenkins testified that, while executing a search warrant in the prisoner's room, at the house of his father-in-law, he found a new ladies' cloak, made up from goods resembling that which had been stolen from Mr. Tolleson's store. Upon inquiry, the witness ascertained that the prisoner, who has been married only three or four weeks, had made his wife a present of the cloth, and she had made it up into a cloak. At first the accused stated that he bought the cloak pattern at auction, and that was all he had of it; but, upon searching further, another lot of the same piece was found. Mr. Tolleson identified the goods as some which had been stolen from his store about the 31st of December last, and said that he had lost a great many articles before. The accused was also remanded in this case for indict
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Caught again. (search)
Caught again. --James E. Robinson, the young man who has recently been so often before the Mayor on the charge of shop-lifting, was again arrested on Saturday by officers Seal and Jenkins, charged with stealing a silver watch from J. Lafitte. Robinson is already under bonds in three cases to answer indictments before the Grand Jury of the Hustings Court on charges of stealing cloth from Spillman & Beers, Alfred Tolleson & Co. and Charles Unkel. He was committed to the watch-house to await investigation before the Mayor this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1865., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
Hustings Court. --The following cases were tried before this court on Saturday: James E. Robinson and Thaddeus A. R. Hopkins, charged with stealing a silver watch from John A. Lafitte. Hopkins was acquitted; Robinson was convicted and sentenced to twelve months confinement in the city jail. Robinson was also tried in three other cases for stealing cloth from Chiles & Chenery, Beers " Spillman, and Alfred Tolleson. In the two first the jury brought in a verdict of guilty; the last case was dismissed upon the failure of the jury to agree upon a decision. William Robinson, charged with stealing shoes and a trunk from John B. Simms, was convicted, and his punishment assessed at two days imprisonment in the city jail. The jury, in the case of William H. Harrison, charged with stealing bed clothing from Henry C. Kizer, brought in a verdict of guilty, and assessed his punishment at two days confinement in the city jail. James Frayser, charged with stealing te