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Remanded for Trial
--Frances Moore, a free Negroes, was arraigned before the Mayor on Saturday for stealing four dresses.
worth forty dollars, the property of Sarah Mayhew.
She was committed for trial before the Hustings Court.
Hustings Court.
--The regular monthly term of this Court commenced yesterday.
The following cases were disposed of:
Frances Moore, a free negro, for stealing four dresses, of the value of $40, from Miss Sarah Mayhew, on the 4th of January, was sentenced to be sold into slavery.
Simon, a slave, charged with stealing a silver bowl, valued at $30, and pitcher, valued at $10, from Nicholas Mills, was tried and sentenced to 39 lashes.
John W. Chronister was examined for passing a counterfeit $5 note on Mr. Duval, and sent on. He was bailed in the sum of $300.
Adelaide, a slave of Mr. Suttle, charged with setting fire to the dwelling house of Peter B. Law, was tried and acquitted.
David, slave of L. T. Chandler, tried for going at large, was discharged on his master paying a fine of ten dollars and the cost of prosecution.
James Butler, a free negro, charged with stealing a watch valued at twenty-five dollars, from Jack, slave to Thomas U. Dudley, was or
Free Negro pardoned.
--On Tuesday last the Executive pardoned and released from imprisonment in the city jail, Frances Moore, a Rockingham free negro, who was convicted by the judgment of the Hustings Court of this city, on the 11th of February, of grand larceny in purloining four silk dresses, the property of Miss Sarah Mayhew, stolen while the latter was stopping at the house of Rev. Patterson Fletcher, of this city.
The Court, in pursuance of law, condemned the prisoner to be sold into absolute slavery, on Monday next, by the City Sergeant.