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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Mayor's Court, Saturday. (search)
Mayor's Court, Saturday. --Franklin Jones, of company G, Fifteenth Virginia battalion, was charged with robbing J. H. Dilks of six hundred dollars in Confederate money forty or fifty dollars and a new suit of clothes. The robbery was perpetrated last Wednesday night at the house of Ann Thomas, on Cary street. Dilks had gone to bed, and while asleep his room was entered through the window and the articles carried off. Suspicion pointed to Jones, as he had been for several days loitering about the promises in company with another man; but before the robbery was discovered, the accused had left the house in which he was when Dilks retired for the night,train brought down a man who had not the proper papers about him; he was taken before Assistant Provost-Marshal Doswell, and upon investigation, it turned out that Jones was none other than the man who had committed the robbery alluded to above. When arrested, the prisoner had on Dilks's lost suit of clothes, as well as the gold w