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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Cumberland Gap. (search)
Forgery by a negro. --On the 2d of February, a negro named Carter, slave of Mrs. Lucy Morton, presented at the Farmers' Bank in this city a check for $450, which he represented that his mistress had drawn off in a hurry and sent him to collect. Being well acquainted with Mrs. Morton, the cashier, deeming the story told by the servant to be a plausible one, promptly paid the amount; but a short while after, upon a close examination of the order, doubted its genuineness, and therefore sent out through the back way, and was not seen afterwards till during the late raid of Dahlgren, when he was captured by some of our pickets below the city. Among the large number of negroes taken on this expedition and lodged in Castle Thunder was Carter, but he gave an entirely different name from what his was, and therefore it was not known where he was until a few days ago, when some acquaintance recognized him among the negro prisoner in Castle. He was before the Mayor yesterday, who, upon