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Arrested for perjury. --R. H. Horne, one of the interior guards at the penitentiary, was yesterday evening arrested by officer Moore on the charge of perjury. It appears Horne went before the Clerk of Henrico County Court and made oath that one Joseph H. Colquitt was over twenty-one years of age, thereby enabling Colquitt, who was only eighteen, to procure a marriage license, and get married contrary to his father's wishes. The case will be before the Mayor this morning. Arrested for perjury. --R. H. Horne, one of the interior guards at the penitentiary, was yesterday evening arrested by officer Moore on the charge of perjury. It appears Horne went before the Clerk of Henrico County Court and made oath that one Joseph H. Colquitt was over twenty-one years of age, thereby enabling Colquitt, who was only eighteen, to procure a marriage license, and get married contrary to his father's wishes. The case will be before the Mayor this morning.
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of Plymouth, N. C.--Twenty-five hundred prisoners and thirty pieces of artillery taken. (search)
ayor yesterday, when it appeared that on the 12th instant, Joseph H. Colquitt, Jr., had applied to the Clerk of Henrico County Court for a lihe consent of William Hopkins and on the certificate of Horne that Colquitt was over twenty-one. Colquitt, who has been in the army three yeaColquitt, who has been in the army three years, and will not be twenty till next May, looks much older, and the Clerk had no doubt of his being of age, but required the certificate of a ctice of the Court. Witnesses were introduced who proved that Colquitt had, during the last year, represented himself to Horne and othersgainst Horne came out in the testimony of officer Moore and Jos. H. Colquitt, Sr. Mr. Moore said he arrested Horne while the latter was attemcape from Mr. Hopkins's house by crawling out of a back window. Mr. Colquitt stated that after Horne was arrested he at first denied that he was the man who had certified to the age of Colquitt, junior, but afterwards admitted it. The Mayor reserved his decision till Saturday,
little business before this Court yesterday. Sam, slave of John Carey, was charged with having twelve grain bags supposed to have been stolen. The negro was discharged, the bags being all right. Henry Westford, charged with stealing a saddle, bridle, and pair of spurs from Martin Murphy, was sent on to the Hustings Court. It was proved that Murphy had left the saddle, etc., at a woman's house in Screamersville, and Westford knowing the fact sent a negro for the saddle in Murphy's name, and sold it to Mr. Joseph H. Colquitt for $65. R. G. Smithers was fined $3 for driving his wagon across the pavement of Broad street. August B. Lipscomb was charged with receiving a large lot of horse shoes, stolen from Nance& Oliver. It appearing that the shoes had been stolen beyond the corporate limits, the case was sent to the county. Kate Conners, charged with using abusive and indecent language to Margaret A. Packenham, was required to give security to keep the peace.