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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
he fact that he had one of the notes described. One of his young men, Mr. Pritchett, received it in payment for clothing, and handed it to witness. [The young man alluded to was sent for.] Joseph Stern deposed that one of the prisoners, Chilton, bought an opera glass of him; paid a $10 South Carolina note and borrowed a dollar of the other. [Witness identified the note.] Mr. Powers, clerk at the Exchange Hotel, testified that on the evening of the 4th inst., Riddell questioned Mr. Simms in his hearing about the difference between South Carolina and Virginia money. Remarked to witness that he had some of the former, which be had bought. The next morning Mr. Wemmell came in and said he had a South Carolina note which he thought was counterfeit. Remembered the conversation of the previous evening, and in compliance with W.'s request pointed out the young men in the dining-room. Witness afterwards told Riddell that he would show him a broker's office, where he could ascer