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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Mayor's Court. --The Mayor had the following subjects before him yesterday morning: John W. Leathers and John Kenney, white men, were charged with feloniously stealing twenty-five hundred dollars from Major William H. Gibbes. The robbery occurred on the Petersburg train, coming to this city, and Major Gibbes suspecting two men who sat behind him, answering the description of the accused, they were subsequently arrested. When confronted before the Mayor yesterday by Major Gibbes, that gentleman was unable to identify them as the parties who traveled to this city in company with him. The Mayor committed the prisoners to jail until this morning, when he will decide what to do with them. John and Andrew, free negroes, charged with stealing a piece of calico from Chiles & Chenery, valued at fifteen dollars in specie, were ordered to be whipped. The continued case of Jim, slave of William Allan, charged with murder, was called up; but, for reasons considered sufficient