From the Richmond Examiner, 7/19/1864

MAYOR'S COURT - Monday, July 18, 1864 - .....John J. Lindsay, charged with fraudulently and by false pretences obtaining from Messrs. Brown & Dean, commission merchants, forty one bushels of potatoes and forty pounds of butter, valued in the aggregate at one thousand two hundred and eleven dollars, under the pretence that he was acting as the agent of the Chimborazo hospital, and whose case was continued until to day, appeared, and having furnished proof that he was or had been the agent of the hospital, was discharged without further enquiry into the case.

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