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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Bombshells and aristocracy. (search)
Asking relief.
--Judge Meredith has granted a writ of habeas corpus to the following free negroes, arrested at Deep Bottom on charge of furnishing information to the Yankee Government, and will give them a hearing to day, or early next week.
Their names are William and Sylvia Scott, Wm T and Margaret James, Wm. R. and Elizabeth James, Robert James, Edward George, Shadrack James, Robert and Georgiana Fagan, Billy James, Edward and Sarah Seaft, Wm. Whiting, Henry Pleasants, Norman Harris, Parthena Holmes, Elizabeth Scott, Waltball James, Jos R Fagan, Mildred Fagan, Emily Bradley, Kesiah Fagan, Wm E Fagan, Mary W Green, Marcellus James, and Hester Walker--27 in all.
Habeas corpus.
--On Saturday last the following free negroes — William and Sylvia Scott, Wm. T. and Margaret James, Wm. H. and Elizabeth James, Robert James, Edward George, Shadrack James, Robert and Georgianna Fagan, Billy James, Edward and Sarah Scott, Wm. Whiting, Henry Pleasants, Norman Harris, Parthena Holmes, Elizabeth Scott, Walthall James, Joseph R. Fagan, Mildred Fagan, Emily Bradley, Kesiah Fagan, Wm. E. Fagan, Mary W. Green, Marcellus James, and Hester Walker--27 in all — were before Judge Meredith on a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that they were illegally detained in custody.
The warrant on which the parties were arrested named about thirty men; but the officers who executed it, believing that the women and children were equally guilty of aiding the enemy, took them into custody.
After hearing the evidence, the Judge ordered the release of the women and children, but held the men for further examination next Wednesday, and directed the constables to proceed at o