State of Indiana    }
vs                         }Forgery
Peter Neeb          }


          ...Peter Neeb late of said County, on the third day of August Eighteen hundred and fifty three, at the said County of Shelby in the State of Indiana, did unlawfully and feloniously and knowingly, utter, tender pay and put away to one Joab Thurston then and there being a certain false forged and counterfeit Bank note, purporting to be a ten dollar Bank note.  On the State Bank of Ohio, which said false forged and counterfeit Bank note, is as follows, that is to say
[this has been drawn by the clerk to resemble a check-pmf]

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{10} B 2366.          June 1, 1849.   Ten
2366 B
          The State Bank of Ohio

will pay to Bearer:  Ten dollars   on demand at
the Muskingum Bank in Zanesville {10}          Ten
N. W. Graham Cashier
{{}} [illegible], Pres

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          He the said Peter Neeb then and there knowing the said note to be a false forged and counterfeit Bank note, and then and there unlawfully and feloniously did publish, utter, pass and put away to the said Joab S. Thurston in manner and form aforesaid, with intent then and there to defraud the said Joab S Thurston.

Jacob Kennerly Foreman

Witnesses
Joab S Thurston
Eden H Davis
Hiram Davidson
William Hacker
Zachariah B Waller
Jas E Robertson
Saml B Robertson
Montraville Mahan
Wm Badger.

Filed in open court October 5, 1853. J Vernon Ck

T A McFarland Pros Atty

Transcribed by Phyllis Miller Fleming from a large, hard-bound book entitled "Judgements.", found at Pearson School, spring 2001.

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