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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], The sword of justice. (search)
Arrested for trading in greenbacks. --An examination on the charge of trading in greenbacks, in which three citizens, named D. J. McCormack, Levi Bendix and Julius Bear, are involved as the parties implicated, took place before Commissioner Johnson H. Sands yesterday. The evidence in the case showed that two Yankee deserters had been provided sixty-odd dollars each, and, accompanied by Detective John Reece and a guard attired in Confederate uniform, were then sent out in order to convict, or remove a suspicions from, certain parties who were suspected of dealing in greenbacks. The modus operandi by which they were bagged was somewhat as follows: Detective Reece remained outside, while the two deserters and the guard entered together, the latter of whom proposed the trade. In the case of McCormack, who keeps a saloon in the lower part of the city, the parties entered and paid for a drink of liquor.--Previous to departing, the guard called McCormack aside and asked him whe