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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ng man Smith, who is now at the Louisiana Hospital. Mary Dennis, wife of Maurice Dennis, testified that on Sunday the prisoner was at their house and called for a snack; that he laid his gloves down, and before his snack was ready, missed them; that he said if he didn't get his gloves he would shoot some one of them, when she made him go out and shot the door after him. He then fired twice into the room where the people were. The first shot hurt no one--the second hit the man. Charles Colman knew nothing of this affair; but he knew that the same man fired a pistol at a friend of his on the day before, and threw a big reck at him (the witness) Green Wilson James testified that he was in company with Smith at Dennis's house on Sunday; that he went out for a short time, and on his return the prisoner was pointing his pistol in the alley, and said he would shoot somebody. The first shot struck the door low down, and the second went through and struck Smith, who was holding
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], News from Fort (search)
or., The prisoner then handed him a $20 Confederate note, which he said belonged to the parties who had employed him, and requested him to take charge of it. The witness then handed the note to the Mayor. From a statement made by the Mayor, it appears that Camps applied to him on Saturday night, in reference to a difficulty with some other parties, and said that he had money belonging to those parties, and that the Mayor advised him to go and pay the money over to them himself. Charles Colman (a volunteer witness, who had a very bad cold and spoke in a whisper,) rectified that he had known the prisoner for a long time in Louisiana, where he bore a good character, that he met him accidentally on New Year's night, and offered him money, which he refused. He knew him a long, long time ago, and never knew anything wrong of him. After a patient hearing, the Mayor remanded the prisoner to be examined before the Hustings Court at the January term, on the charge of stealing the