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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court. (search)
why he was acting in such a manner, he replied that Dorning had been using treasonable language towards the Confederacy, and he intended taking him before the Provost Marshal. Dornin was helplessly drunk at the time, but soon afterwards sobered off, and sued out a warrant against the prisoner for unjustifiable and abusive treatment. The case existing against Mary, slave of Robert F. Taylor, and Mary, slave of Thomas Edwards, charged with stealing a breastpin valued at $3,000 from Mrs. J. E. Johnson, was again called yesterday, but for want of a witness was postponed till the 30th inst.-- Mr. Edwards's servant acknowledges stealing the breastpin and says she sold it to Mr. Taylor's girl; but as it appears the confession of the crime was extorted under a threat, Mr. Crane, the counsel in her behalf, asked a continuance in order to procure the attendance of Robert Craddock, to whom Mary made the acknowledgment. Hannah, slave of Frederick Caper, was ordered to be whipped for thr