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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Mexican complications. (search)
Civilians discharged. --Special Commissioner Lyons examined and discharged, on Saturday, Henry Bagby, R. H. Kinney, Frank Smyth, Hezekiah Kelley, Solomon Banks, and Thomas Alexander, all of whom had been arrested on suspicion of disloyalty to the Confederate Government.
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], An important Discovery. (search)
Cage cases. --The following arrests have been made by the city police since Saturday: Thomas Alexander, for stealing a shawl, worth $20, from Charles DeKan; William Pitts, at half-past 2 o'clock Sunday morning, for being in possession of a large chisel, and acting suspiciously; Madison Griffin, for forging the name of John Griffin and obtaining $15 from Richard Reins, Tom, slave of A. Hill & Co., for having in his possession a piece of sole leather, canvas, and one pair of shoes, supposed to be stolen. The under mentioned soldiers, taken by the Watch, were sent to Castle Thunder to be returned to their regiments: Harman L. Seay, drunk and sitting on the street; Charles Alexander, drunk and lying on the sidewalk; Wm. Masengale, John Robertson, and Henry Mitchell, for disorderly conduct in the Varieties theatre.
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
actorily account, was ordered to be whipped. Madison Griffin, charged with forging the name of John Griffin and obtaining $15 from Richard Reins, was committed for a future hearing, the witnesses living in Fluvanna county, and not being present. William Pitts, who was found by one of the watchmen in the street, about half-past 2 o'clock Sunday morning, in a suspicious attitude, and who had on his person a chisel, was committed in default of security for his good behavior. Thomas Alexander, a young white man, an operative in one of the numerous machine shops about Richmond, was arraigned for stealing from Charles Dekab a shawl, worth $30, at the Franklin House, kept by Mrs. Crouch, near the Old Market. The testimony against the prisoner was wholly circumstantial, but very strong. He was seen by two witnesses to go out of the house down the street with a shawl that did not belong to the man he said he borrowed it from, and he returned in ten minutes without it. A hue and
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
itentiary and others, was required to give $500 security for his good behavior, and failing, was committed to jail. Wm. Pitts was committed for a further examination, on the oath of W. A. Griffin and others, for house breaking and grand larceny. Pitts was found in possession of an immense chisel by one of the watchmen at a late hour of the night, and it happened that said chisel exactly fitted the indentures made in the door ways of several houses broken open on Friday night. Thomas Alexander, arrested for stealing a $30 shawl from Charles Dekab, was arraigned, and the witness desired by the prisoner to prove his innocence having appeared, gave testimony strongly in behalf of the Commonwealth. Suffice it to say that DeKab recovered his shawl and the Mayor sent the accused to jail to be examined before the Hustings Court for grand larceny. The case against Madison Griffin for forging John Griffin's name and getting $15 from Richard Reins, was continued for further proof
The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], The 7th Congressional District. (search)
e 27th of February a large quantity of dry goods stolen from the same firm; Ann Murphy, stealing on the 16th of March $30 in C. S. notes of John White; Thomas Samanni, (a free white person, in conjunction with others,) on the 2d of April, feloniously destroying the property of Minna Schweitzer; Thomas Samanni, robbing Schweitzer's store of $200 in dry goods on the 2d day of April; Sarah Clampion, for stealing, on the 2d day of April, a lot of shoes, &c., from the store of James Knotts; Thomas Alexander, for stealing, on the 23d November, a $30 Shawl from Chas. DeKobe; James Morries, for stealing sundry watches from Hammet A. Pearce, March 13th; John W. Sartin, for maliciously stabbing Trenton Kennedy, with intent to kill, on the 7th of December, 1862; James H. Gilman and Archer T. Walton, for stealing a sorrel mare from Clement C. Tinsley, on the 9th of March. James Organ was put on trial for garroting and robbing Wm. H. Hardgove of a gold watch, in conjunction with one Pat Mart
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Lincoln and the spirits. (search)
Guilty --Thomas Alexander, indicted for steading a shawl, was found guilty of petty larceny and sentenced to jail, by Judge Meredith, for sixty days. Mary Conners, indicted for receiving goods stolen from Chiles & Chenery, was tried before Judge Meredith, found guilty, and sent to the penitentiary for one year.
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Sentence of death. --On Saturday morning last Capt. Alexander, Assistant Provost Marshall, read the sentence of death, pronounced by a Court-Martial, on Charles Kelley, alias Charles Linton, formerly a member of company I, 15th Louisiana regiment, now confined in Castle Thunder, for substitution and desertion. The accused, it seems, after being released from the 15th La. regiment, became a substitute in the Pamunkey Artillery, from which he deserted. The sentence is that the accused is to be taken to Chaffin's Bluff, on the 20th of June, and there shot to death by musketry. Linton denies being the man who substituted and deserted, and is getting up a petition to Gen. Elzy, asking a pardon.